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Profile Issues in Teachers` Professional Development
Print version ISSN 1657-0790
Abstract
BASALLO GOMEZ, Juan Sebastián. Adult EFL Reading Selection: Influence on Literacy. profile [online]. 2016, vol.18, n.1, pp.167-181. ISSN 1657-0790. https://doi.org/10.15446/profile.v18n1.49943.
This paper is about the impact of systematic reading selection used to promote English as foreign language learning in adult students. A qualitative action research methodology was used to carry out this project. Ten class sessions were designed to provide students an opportunity to select texts according to criteria based upon their language levels and personal/professional interests. The findings align with three categories of influence: motivation, engagement, and contextualization/interpretation of readings. The main objective of this project was to see how the students' text selection processes, guided by systematically designed criteria and elaborated strategies, influenced learning and acquisition in terms of motivation, perceptions, and opinions towards reading in English.
Keywords : Behavioral patterns; engagement; motivation; perceptions; reading habits; self-selection.