Tip 7

7. Help learners to develop their strategies for reading online.

• ›    Teachers should attempt to help learners develop not only good learning and reading strategies, but also a range of strategies required for reading and work with texts online. ( using online tools for help comprehending online texts).

What the research says

• ›    Rather than finding effective way to teach online reading strategies, research have been attempting to identify what those strategies are.

• ›    Many literary researchers refers to multimodal literary to express the range of literary abilities learners need.

• ›    Reading might be called reading/research, to express that reading online has a strategic dimension.

 What teachers can do

• ›   Teachers can help students develop strategies that they can use in future through CALL on their own.

• ›   Help them learn self- monitoring, so it could encourage students to estimate how many questions they answered correctly before having the computer check their results.

•    ›Making use of language learning software that accompanies their textbooks to help students about skimming texts effectively.

•    ›Include useful strategies for online reading, using translation services, and copying notes from a passage and storing them in word processing files.

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