Applied Linguistics Assignment | Online Assignment

role of reading comprehension in activating critical thinking in the EAP Classroom

please see the attached files are assignment instructions, Powerpoint explanation for assignment instruction, the original assignment, the file of assignment with professor’s comments. She said work on the comments and she gave me time until May 29, but my summer course is started and I cannot do it.
she wants peer-reviewed articles, recent, a mix of state-of-the-art articles, and empirical studies ( the PP has a good explanation for this assignment) & I used some resources, but you might add more resources depend on the comments. The paper is about 12 pages.
it might be going up to 8 -10 pages after editing and revising (working on comments) excluding the first page and references. Also, I didn’t talk about EAP reading comprehension assessment and this should be in the last part of the papers. Thank you very much. Please let me know if you have any questions, please email me at Al3issar@gmail.com. My field of study in Applied Linguistics and this course is Second Language Instruction. I choose discipline Education, because of the paper kind. The abstract is already n the assignment needs only editing after working on the paper. So, I will include its fees as well. I took B+ in this assignment and I’m requesting you to help me and work on the comment, so I can get at least A. The scale of the grade is A+, A, A-, B+. I wrote the comment in the word docs, I think this will help you and save your time.
I upload one more file which has the comments clearly ( Final project with comments). What you have to do first is,1- read the picture of the course outline that has the final paper description. Then, 2- read the PowerPoint instructions, Finally, 3- read the word docs. (my assignment) with the comments. In the last file, I could not delete it ( it is the receipt of Turnitin in my work). Thank you very much.
sources, I put 3, but it depends on you

• Presentation
• Feedback on the critical reflections
• Final paper: Writing a good lit review (Aiming for an A+)
• +:
• A knowledge-telling approach: Paraphrase of the PPTs, or other sources
• Resulted in a list of approaches/theories
• No clear thesis: What is point of this list?
• Use of references: In-text references vs. reference list
• Quality of references
• Simple reflection: “I will use x, y, and z in my practice”.
• A:
• Evidence of knowledge transformation
• A clear thesis, a message, a new way of organizing all the information you learned.
• Themes: seeing trends, tracing change.
• Evidence of research/reading
• Insightful refection: rethinking/questioning aspects of your practice

• Explore in depth one of the topics related to second language instruction.
• Start with a rationale that explains your interest in the topic (e.g., related to challenges or questions rooted in your previous experiences as a learner or practitioner).
• Identify a specific research question and define the instructional contexts that you will focus on (e.g., the teaching of writing to adolescent second language learners, the teaching of critical reading strategies in advanced EAP contexts).
• Review the relevant literature (minimum 7 peer-reviewed references)
• Reflect on the pedagogical implications including curriculum development, classroom practices and assessment.
• Write to make sense of everything that your read.
• Reorganize
• Identify tensions, persistent questions, unresolved issues
• Formulate a thesis: what will my reader learn after reading my Lit review
• Learning happens in the process of organizing your text.
• => A lit review is an extended argumentative essay

• Choose a topic of interest to you: can start broad but will have to narrow it down
• What are the key concepts, terms that need to be defined
• à Making sure you and your reader understand the focus of the paper.
• You won’t be able (shouldn’t) cover everything:
• What will you include/exclude: Instructional context, specific target population, time, location, a certain theoretical framework, focus on quali/quan studies
• The library search: peer-reviewed articles, recent (?), a mix of state-of-the-art article and empirical studies.
• Check the reference lists of relevant papers.
• Discovery phase: Abstracts, quick skim
• Eliminate or classify

• Reading for content
• Take notes, organize thoughts, build/revise/edit your map
• Reading for form
• Focus on how others write a lit review (models)
• • Summarizing
  • Evaluating
  • Organizing
  • Synthesizing

  è LR is a critical account: An evaluation of the state of knowledge (what, how, & why we know what we know).

• Cumming et al (2016): Themes and in-text citation
• Byram and Feng (2004): How to define your focus