Critical reading interventions

What is it about?

The article reviews the concept of critical reading (its definitions and related skills) and critical thinking as well as points out the similarities and differences between the two concepts. The article reviews and analyses different interventions and pedagogical frameworks to teach critical reading. The article presents a tested pedagogical model of teaching critical reading to develop students’ text comprehension and critical thinking.

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Photo by Fatima Yusuf on Unsplash

Why is it important?

In everyday life, people need to cope with both public and political issues, make decisions and solve problems, which requires the ability to critically evaluate what they receive from different channels: seeing, listening and reading (Taglieber, 2000). Moreover, the United Nations (2015) proposed that ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education for all people is a goal for sustainable development. In the era of the Industrial Revolution 4.0, in which the bloom of technology facilitates global connection and information exchange, ensuring equity in education is not only limited to ensuring the ability to simply read and write, but to have critical literacy in order not to sink in the world of information and be led by others’ intention without being aware of their purposes.

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