Scaffolding Summary Writing through the ‘Reading to Learn’ Pedagogy
Huifang Li,
Ingrid Wijeyewardene,
Susan Stackhouse
Abstract:Summary writing is a core competency for students pursuing university studies, but the demands of the reading-to-writing process can be fraught for those students new to the university context, particularly international students for whom English is an additional language. This paper reports on a study that investigated the effectiveness of using the Reading to Learn (R2L) pedagogy for students’ summary writing in an online environment. International English as an additional language students enrolled in four … Show more
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