Critical reading should be re-conceptualized as social literacy for response on the recent social demands This is included with skill based literacy and critical literacy, which are pre-existed. Specially, reading as critical literacy linked with crit...
Critical reading should be re-conceptualized as social literacy for response on the recent social demands This is included with skill based literacy and critical literacy, which are pre-existed. Specially, reading as critical literacy linked with critical thinking means ability of comprehension language, and also recognition of relations between language and power. And then, critical reader recognizes meanings of socio-cultural context and perlocutionary force of speech-acts in language. So teaching of critical reading should focus on the synthesis of knowledges in across-curriculum through schema-activating in reading classroom, and the their integrated thought-ability. Therefore, reader should be carefully with contents of thought and of organization thought during the reading, and also build the identity as reader and challenge social prejudices in text, against the skill-driven curriculum.