Diagnostic Assessment of Academic Reading

Peeping into Students' Annotated Texts

Bibliographic Data

ID5901092
AuthorsBassey E Antia (0000-0001-6117-6737, University of the Western Cape, corresponding author), Kristen Vogt (0000-0001-6019-2655), Karin Vogt (Heidelberg University of Education)
Year2022
Volume7
Issue2
Pages84
Publication date2022-03-30
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguages (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/languages7020084
OpenAlexW4220680683
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited36

Text annotations are literacy practices that are not uncommon in the reading experience of university students. Annotations may be multilingual, monolingual, or multimodal. Despite their enormous diagnostic potentials, annotations have not been widely investigated for what they can reveal about the cognitive processes that are involved in academic reading. In other words, there has been limited exploration of the insights that signs (verbal and non-verbal) inscribed by students on texts offer for understanding and intervening in their academic reading practices. The aim of this exploratory study is to examine the diagnostic assessment potentials of student-annotated texts. On the basis of text annotations obtained from teacher trainee students (n = 7) enrolled at a German university, we seek to understand what different students attend to while reading, what their problem-solving strategies are, what languages and other semiotic systems they deploy, what their level of engagement with text is, and, critically, how the foregoing provide a basis for intervening to validate, reinforce, correct, or teach certain reading skills and practices. Theoretically, the study is undergirded by the notion of text movability. Data suggestive of how students journey through text are argued to have implications for understanding and teaching how they manage attention, use dictionaries, own text meaning, and appraise text

Exploratory research · German · Inscribed figure · Linguistics · Literacy · Mathematics education · Meaning (existential · Pedagogy · Reading (process · Reading comprehension · Semiotics · Sociology · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning · Second Language Learning and Teaching

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