Friday, April 24, 2015

Highlighting

Highlighting is a method that I have been using for a long time to help me in understanding text. Since I came here to the US to learn English two years ago, I have started to noted the benefits of using Highlighting on my improvement in understanding new words to me. I think that it is a great tool for ESL teachers to teach their students about. 
One might ask, what about highlighting on e-books? And for me I found that it is really helpful when I was reading on my IPad.  I could understand and comprehend many things from my e-books by doing so.
According to So and Chan (2009), highlighting on LED surfaces caused to have a good comprehension performance for the subjects that they have tried it in their study.
Therefore, I encourage people to read on a tablet that has a LED technology such as IPads with Retina display. By doing so, people would most likely increase their comprehension on their e-books, which is a great thing.

One application that I recommend for everyone, and that I have been using for
highlighting my e-books is Notability. You can find more about it on this link


Reference:
So, J. Y., & Chan, A. S. (2009). Validity of Highlighting on Text Comprehension. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1177(1), 217-224. doi:10.1063/1.3256250

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