The authors developed reading support software “eJournalPlus” designed to assist learners in not only reading texts but also constructing their own opinions from it. Since it is difficult for learners to reach a sufficient level of critical reading skills through reading only by themselves, a collaborative learning function was added to allow learners to share their ideas and facilitate discuss...

Brain regions in the "pain matrix", can be activated by observing or reading about others in physical pain. In previous research, we found that reading stories about others' emotional suffering, by contrast, recruits a different group of brain regions mostly associated with thinking about others' minds. In the current study, we examined the neural circuits responsible for deliberately regulatin...

The word "visualization" originates from the English "visual", which means "visual and intuitive". Generally speaking, visualization is method by we can transform abstract things into directly observable graphics images. In teaching, especially in reading use of thinking tools very helpful to realize ordering disordered knowledge concretization knowledge. It not only improve students' interest ...

The study is aimed to determine the ability of students think critically while reading and writing. teaching methodology included preparation texts reports their by 8th grade develop writing skills in English, development critical thinking. Methods quantitative analysis, descriptive statistics, survey-test, Student's t-test were used. involved a teacher researcher (English teacher), 42 eighth g...

Reading in many alphabetic writing systems depends on both item-specific knowledge used to read irregular words (sew, yacht) and generative spelling-sound knowledge used to read pseudowords (tew, yash). Research into the neural basis of these abilities has been directed largely by cognitive accounts proposed by the dual-route cascaded and triangle models of reading. We develop a framework that ...