@article{ART003374411},
author={Young-Mee Suh},
title={Reconsidering Reading Strategy Instruction as a Pedagogical Lens for Critical Literacy in EFL Reading},
journal={Modern English Education},
issn={1598-0782},
year={2026},
volume={27},
pages={350-362}
TY - JOUR
AU - Young-Mee Suh
TI - Reconsidering Reading Strategy Instruction as a Pedagogical Lens for Critical Literacy in EFL Reading
JO - Modern English Education
PY - 2026
VL - 27
IS - null
PB - The Modern English Education Society
SP - 350
EP - 362
SN - 1598-0782
AB - Critical literacy has become a central goal of EFL reading instruction, extending the purposes of reading beyond comprehension to learners’ engagement with representation, identity, ideology, power, and social participation. Although earlier research has advanced critical literacy through a range of instructional models and classroom practices, far less attention has been paid to how the pedagogical knowledge built up in reading strategy instruction (RSI) can inform these broader goals. This conceptual paper therefore reconsiders RSI as a lens for understanding how teachers support learners as those purposes expand. Drawing on research in both fields, it argues that familiar strategic and metacognitive processes can serve critical thinking and critical literacy as well as comprehension once teachers deliberately orient them toward these wider purposes. A classroom vignette and a comparison of six representative processes across reading orientations then illustrate how such a reorientation can work in practice.
KW - Critical literacy;reading strategy instruction;critical thinking;EFL reading;reading pedagogy
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Young-Mee Suh. (2026). Reconsidering Reading Strategy Instruction as a Pedagogical Lens for Critical Literacy in EFL Reading. Modern English Education, 27, 350-362.
Young-Mee Suh. 2026, "Reconsidering Reading Strategy Instruction as a Pedagogical Lens for Critical Literacy in EFL Reading", Modern English Education, vol.27, pp.350-362.
Young-Mee Suh "Reconsidering Reading Strategy Instruction as a Pedagogical Lens for Critical Literacy in EFL Reading" Modern English Education 27 pp.350-362 (2026) : 350.
Young-Mee Suh. Reconsidering Reading Strategy Instruction as a Pedagogical Lens for Critical Literacy in EFL Reading. 2026; 27 350-362.
Young-Mee Suh. "Reconsidering Reading Strategy Instruction as a Pedagogical Lens for Critical Literacy in EFL Reading" Modern English Education 27(2026) : 350-362.
Young-Mee Suh. Reconsidering Reading Strategy Instruction as a Pedagogical Lens for Critical Literacy in EFL Reading. Modern English Education, 27, 350-362.
Young-Mee Suh. Reconsidering Reading Strategy Instruction as a Pedagogical Lens for Critical Literacy in EFL Reading. Modern English Education. 2026; 27 350-362.
Young-Mee Suh. Reconsidering Reading Strategy Instruction as a Pedagogical Lens for Critical Literacy in EFL Reading. 2026; 27 350-362.
Young-Mee Suh. "Reconsidering Reading Strategy Instruction as a Pedagogical Lens for Critical Literacy in EFL Reading" Modern English Education 27(2026) : 350-362.
