Remedial Effects of the Integration of Reading and Writing
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of integrating instruction in reading and writing. By introducing the author's ‘Critical Thinking about Recent Issues' class, in which reading and writing were integrated into content-areas, this study examined the existence of strong relationship between these two skills and the instructional benefits of this approach. The data were collected from questionnaire and interviews from 72 students who took the course. The findings revealed that reading was beneficial for writing in multiple ways. By reading, students could expand new vocabulary and enhance writing skills such as grammar and sentence structure. Furthermore, reading helped students discover new ideas and better ways of developing their opinions through creating coherent paragraphs that covered the essay. On the other hand, writing to read encouraged students' meaningful interaction with reading texts; therefore, writing activities could promote the purposeful reading, providing a greater appreciation of reading materials, opening up new fields of interests and widening horizons. Writing was also recognized as an important tool to help students in the act of learning in that it engaged them to become fully aware of the topic and the main points.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of integrating instruction in reading and writing. By introducing the author's ‘Critical Thinking about Recent Issues' class, in which reading and writing were integrated into content-areas, this study examined the existence of strong relationship between these two skills and the instructional benefits of this approach. The data were collected from questionnaire and interviews from 72 students who took the course. The findings revealed that reading was beneficial for writing in multiple ways. By reading, students could expand new vocabulary and enhance writing skills such as grammar and sentence structure. Furthermore, reading helped students discover new ideas and better ways of developing their opinions through creating coherent paragraphs that covered the essay. On the other hand, writing to read encouraged students' meaningful interaction with reading texts; therefore, writing activities could promote the purposeful reading, providing a greater appreciation of reading materials, opening up new fields of interests and widening horizons. Writing was also recognized as an important tool to help students in the act of learning in that it engaged them to become fully aware of the topic and the main points.
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