Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)

Students’ Evolving Response to Text: What changes in students’ reading as part of critical literacy

Authors
Endang Setyaningsih, Bachrudin Musthafa, Nenden Sri Lengkanawati
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Endang Setyaningsih
Available Online June 2019.
DOI
10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.256How to use a DOI?
Keywords
code breaker; critical literacy; reading; text analyst; text user; text participant
Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to explore how students’ interaction with texts evolved upon an introduction to Critical Literacy (CL). Two questions posed were (1) how the students respond to texts within CL framework and (2) how they shifted their reading conception. This exploratory case study involved 35 first-year students majoring EFL teacher education. The data were collected by means of participatory observation, questionnaire, and analysis of students’ works (artifacts). The data were analyzed to find the general pattern of students’ responses to CL and to compare students’ definition of reading before and after the CL introduction. The results of the analysis indicated that the students responded well on CL. The students, at varying degree, showcased changes in terms of the reader roles when responding to a text. Students with a relatively strong basis of reading practice and proficiency were able to well expand their engagement to text user and analyst roles. Meanwhile, students with weaker baseline were struggling in the code-breaking and text participant roles. The critical stance built by these students tended to be off target. Nevertheless, all students’ definitions of what they called as reading were shifted regardless of their baseline. Their interaction to text has shifted from passive recipient of information to active, questioning reader.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
June 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-749-2
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.256How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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