Literacy and Technologies in EFL Settings: Fostering Reading Comprehension on the Internet

In a period of dramatic technological change (Kellner, 2000) Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are developing exponentially and this has inevitably had an impact on how learning and literacy in the 21st century are being redefined (Benson & Chik, 2010). For this reason, educator...

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Autor principal:	Carolina Girón-García
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Lenguaje:	CA EN ES FR
Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2015
Materias:	New literacies Spontaneous New Literacies technology TEFL Cybertask Special aspects of education LC8-6691 Language and Literature P
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:bba5915e8e1444799d7a21afb9aadd642021-11-25T13:21:56ZLiteracy and Technologies in EFL Settings: Fostering Reading Comprehension on the Internet10.5565/rev/jtl3.6162013-6196https://doaj.org/article/bba5915e8e1444799d7a21afb9aadd642015-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/jtl3/article/view/616https://doaj.org/toc/2013-6196 In a period of dramatic technological change (Kellner, 2000) Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are developing exponentially and this has inevitably had an impact on how learning and literacy in the 21st century are being redefined (Benson & Chik, 2010). For this reason, educators have the need and the responsibility to adapt and integrate the curricula into a new digital context (Schmar-Dobler, 2003), making use of available digital tools in order to ensure that education is relevant to the demands of today’s society (Kress, 2003; Luzón, 2002). This article highlights the role of digital literacy to foster reading comprehension on the Internet in order to solve problems, activities, tasks; or simply to satisfy learners’ needs by providing an overview of one pedagogical intervention and qualitative data that shows its successful implementation. Carolina Girón-GarcíaUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaarticleNew literaciesSpontaneous New LiteraciestechnologyTEFLCybertaskSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691Language and LiteraturePCAENESFRBellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literature, Vol 8, Iss 2 (2015)
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description	In a period of dramatic technological change (Kellner, 2000) Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are developing exponentially and this has inevitably had an impact on how learning and literacy in the 21st century are being redefined (Benson & Chik, 2010). For this reason, educators have the need and the responsibility to adapt and integrate the curricula into a new digital context (Schmar-Dobler, 2003), making use of available digital tools in order to ensure that education is relevant to the demands of today’s society (Kress, 2003; Luzón, 2002). This article highlights the role of digital literacy to foster reading comprehension on the Internet in order to solve problems, activities, tasks; or simply to satisfy learners’ needs by providing an overview of one pedagogical intervention and qualitative data that shows its successful implementation.
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title	Literacy and Technologies in EFL Settings: Fostering Reading Comprehension on the Internet
title_short	Literacy and Technologies in EFL Settings: Fostering Reading Comprehension on the Internet
title_full	Literacy and Technologies in EFL Settings: Fostering Reading Comprehension on the Internet
title_fullStr	Literacy and Technologies in EFL Settings: Fostering Reading Comprehension on the Internet
title_full_unstemmed	Literacy and Technologies in EFL Settings: Fostering Reading Comprehension on the Internet
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publisher	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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Literacy and Technologies in EFL Settings: Fostering Reading Comprehension on the Internet

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