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ELT Journal 1984 38(3):192-198; doi:10.1093/elt/38.3.192
© 1984 by Oxford University Press
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Reading and risk-taking: a role for the computer

John Higgins

This article discusses the skills of prediction and hypothesis-formation which are used by the expert reader, and the techniques which may be used to develop these skills among EFL learners. It goes on to describe a computer exercise which invites the learner to identify the source of a piece of text from a randomly chosen fragment. Initially the fragment is only one word long, but the student can open a ‘window’ on it to take in more of the context, until he or she is ready to make a guess. The article goes on to describe the scoring system, the relationship between the language level of the learner and the selection of texts on which the computer draws, and possible developments and extensions to the program.


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