Hello, in this post I am going to be going through a journal that I have read called The journal of reading by Ernest Balajthy. The journal was published in 1984 by the International Literacy Association and Wiley. First I will be going through that is given in the journal and after I will give my opinion on the research.
When reading this journal you can see that the target audience is aimed at students. The reason why I think this is because multiple times in this journal he makes examples using students in classroom scenarios, for example in the second paragraph Ernest (page 408 February 1984) says " As a skill, self-questioning can be taught to students of all ages. Research and experience have demonstrated its classroom usefulness and its place in models of learning by reading.
When discussing active reading, Ernest does not just give his own opinions he also mentions the thoughts of other researchers. An example of this is in the third and fourth paragraph (page 408 February 1984), he show the two opposing views of learning activity with Kintsch and van Dijk believing " retention is automatic with comprehension and can be predicted by analysing the text structure" (Kintsch and van Dijk, 1978; Rumelhart, 1977). Other researchers believe that retention is influenced by their four factors which are: "the nature of the material, the characteristics of the learner, the learning activities applied (cognitive learning strategies and study skills), and the task by which learning is measured" (Kintsch and van Dijk, 1978; Rumelhart, 1977) (page 408 February 1984).
From reading this journal I think that Ernest Balajthy is in agreement with with the active research that he has done on previous studies by other researchers. What makes me believe this is in the second paragraph (page 409 February 1984), Ernest mentions: self-questioning allows the reader to read actively for meaning independent of teacher supplied learning aids (Singer and Donlan, 1982). Ernest gives his own opinion on this research talking about what other advantages these techniques might give to a reader.
After reading this journal I obtained useful information that I think that I will be able to use to my advantage. I would like to train how to self question myself better so that I can stay focused on my task at hand and not loose interest in what I am doing. More information that I found useful was the student led discussions and the group competition in the third and fourth bullet points (page 409 February 1984). I think these techniques will help in a group project situation to get everyone in the group to know how to work together and how to do it more efficiently.
Sources:
- Journal of Reading, Feb., 1984, Vol. 27, No. 5 (Feb., 1984), pp. 408-411,
- Author: Ernest Balajthy
What I liked most about this blog is that the blog is worded very well, used really good grammar and the structure in general makes it easy to read and transfer from one topic to another. I also like how whenever a point of information is mentioned, that it is referenced and backed up by facts. I can understand and see that the writer has a good understanding of the text he is writing about. However, I feel like he could have elaborated a little bit more and gave his own meaning and point of view a bit more. As well as this, the blog is straight forward and clear which I really liked. The writer answers a lot of questions in his blog and this gives me a better understanding of the topic and the opinion of the writer.
ReplyDeleteIn general, I think he did a good job and I found reading the blog very comfortable and easy.
Hi Finn, firstly I would like to say, your blog was wonderful to read. I like the way you write in a way where it felt like you were talking to me as a reader.
ReplyDeleteYour use of referencing and sentence quoting is really good and completely appropriate. It helped the understanding of your points.
I have only one bit of advice and that is to maybe expand each your points with opinions of your own to make it feel more personal. :)
This blog was really well written and I wonder if you enjoyed writing this.
Jessica :)
Thank you! I did enjoy reading the different study techniques. I will use your advice in future blogs.
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