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- Title
Chinese Students Self-Perceived Reading Ability and Its Implication to the Teaching of Critical Reading.
- Authors
Xizhe Zhang
- Abstract
Reading skill is one of the basic skills a learner should develop to function as a competent learner. This enables a student to feel successful, as s/he can access information and be oriented on what is going on in this fast-changing world. For foreign students, like Chinese, an ability to read and comprehend a text is crucial for success but how much comprehension they know seems to be a big question that needs to be answered especially if the focus is about reading critically (Waring & Nation, 2004). This paper emphasizes on the importance of students' perceived reading ability and its implication to teaching critical reading because often we read depending on our purpose. As well, there are different types of readers, competent readers who normally know what information they are looking for and those who need more time for understanding the information. To teach critical reading, therefore, students should be competent readers as they are likely to be equipped with understanding implicit messages when they interact with the text.
- Subjects
CHINESE students; SELF-perception in children; READING comprehension; READING ability testing; COMMUNICATIVE competence in children
- Publication
Language in India, 2021, Vol 21, Issue 12, p24
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article