Salma Reading Activities

Project profile 

The product is a digital learning resource for students and teachers, as well as a literacy resource, student-centered learning media based on the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR), or a tool to measure English level proficiency in Europe, and it employs Reading for Emotion (RFE), a tool developed by Ania Lian, (2017), to assist students in becoming better (academic) readers and writers by analyzing and manipulating text emotions. Digital learning resource is created by researchers using technology. This product is designed to help students improve their language skills in accordance with rhizomatic learning, which provides learning that can be accessed anywhere and at any time. Students can expand their knowledge as needed, especially in the area of reading.

Teaching and learning reading is not as simple as people imagine. Researchers agree that reading is a language-based skill (Birsh & Carreker, 2018). However, Language too often follows the old paradigms focusing in grammar and vocabulary (Lian A.B., 2022). Conseqeuntly, a new pedagogy infrastructure is needed, as stated by Sudimantara, (2021), proves the development of a new pedagogy where the process begins with the right side of the brain as the foundation by activating the nonverbal components of language such as intonation, rhythm, movement, emotion, and aesthetics. Also, combining with the multisensorial learning approach that enable students to use multi senses on their body to be more engage in the learning process. Since people are multisensory and process information in a multisensory manner (Lian A.B., 2020).