Instructor

Prof. Yuh-Tsuen Tzeng (曾玉村)

Credits

3 (Elective)

Course Description

This seminar examines reading development and instruction from a cognitive perspective, focusing on how readers construct meaning from text. The course explores cognitive processes involved in comprehension, including mental representation, inference making, working memory, and learning from text, with attention to text features, reading contexts, and language-specific characteristics.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

• Understand cognitive theories and models of reading comprehension

• Analyze key processes involved in reading and learning from text

• Develop a research proposal addressing critical issues in reading development and instruction