Junming Chen|Meng-Chang Chen|Yeali S. Sun
A novel approach for enhancing student reading comprehension and assisting teacher assessment of literacy
National Taiwan University|Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica|National Taiwan University
students english foreign language efl reading exercises critical developing strong reading comprehension also developing listening speaking writing skills prior research suggests social collaborative learning environments best suited improving language ability however opportunities english learners collaboratively practice reading comprehension minimal due resource constraints lack accurate evaluation methods english instructors rarely assess student literacy effectively response problems propose tagbased collaborative reading learning system taco makes use web 20 internet social tagging techniques provide collaborative environment reading english test systems ability improve reading comprehension aid teachers accurately assessing literacy conducting threemonth trial 56 participating taiwanese high school students february may 2009 period posttesting results show significant improvement reading scores among participants tagbased system survey feedback teachers suggests improved capacity literacy assessment