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Academic Reading Circles
LEADER
The Leader acts primarily as the moderator for the in-class group work about the common text. Leaders attempt firstly to equalise everyone’s general comprehension, secondly to manage the contributions of each member, and lastly to lead the applied discussion once everyone has contributed. It is imperative that every group have a Leader for every ARC cycle.
VISUALISER
Information presented in any text can be represented in a visual manner. Sometimes photos, graphs, charts, or videos are included by the author. These can facilitate the reader’s ability to understand the author’s meaning. Other times, readers are left to decipher through text only, which for academic literature may be more confusing than not. Readers can often benefit from graphical representations of concepts because a multi-modal approach to language learning fills in gaps left by one mode, particularly for challenging concepts represented only by language. The Visualiser’s focus is here: relating key text concepts to different types of visuals to improve group comprehension of the text.
CONTEXTUALISER
He researches key contextual references and adds helpful background to the text for the reader.
Authors often refer to significant people, places, events, and outside sources in order to provide context to their reader and to give examples that support their points. There can be anywhere from a few to a hundred external references in one short magazine article. While sometimes these references are directly explained in the text, other times the author merely mentions the reference, assuming a shared background understanding with the reader. In the latter case,
learners may simply overlook them, devaluing their importance to text concepts or author meaning.
The Contextualiser’s main role is to recognise the references worth exploring further to improve understanding of the author’s point and learning about them.
CONNECTOR
Readers, often unconsciously, make connections to familiar experiences and existing knowledge in order to bring meaning to unfamiliar content. A name will remind us of a story we have previously heard about that person or place. The mention of an event will trigger memory of our existing knowledge and perspectives on it. Even actions and details we are reading for the first time and have no experience with elicit thoughts of how we can relate to them.
The Connector directs the reader to make these types of connections to their previous experiences, things they have read and, in many EAP contexts, concepts from other courses they are taking.
He Finds connections between text concept and other studies whether they
are obvious or subtle
HIGHLIGHTER
The Highlighter role learns how to capitalise on the author’s language use. Apart from simply highlighting unknown vocabulary in the common text, the Highlighter focuses on noticing how authors choose their vocabulary to demonstrate credibility and knowledge of the topic and target audience while conveying their points of view. Through awareness-raising and exploration into meaning and related grammar, the Highlighter not only improves comprehension but also equips learners with strategies to build general discipline-specific vocabulary.
References:
Seburn, T. (2015). Academic reading circles. The Round. areadingcircle.wordpress/.
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