In this essay, I will be critiquing “The Learning Potential Of E-Books” written by Lotta Larson. In Larson’s piece, she presents an easy-to-follow layout and examines the adoption of E-Books in educational environments and their benefits. She explores advancements in technology that allow E-Books to give an interactive reading experience for students. Larson argues that E-Books allow for a more customizable learning and reading experience in schools. In addition, Larson stresses the benefits E-Books provide in order to develop language fluency and vocabulary. I believe that Larson’s arguments presented in her piece are highly valuable. The attention Larson brings to E-Books highlights their benefits in a very informative manner.
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Larson touches on the benefits that customizing an E-Book could hold for English language learners. I believe that mentioning this disrupts the readers flow of the section and can become distracting and regarded as information that does not belong there. Instead, I believe this information would have been more effective as its own section or belong to the “Developing Fluency and Vocabulary” section of Larson’s piece. The same goes for when Larson is discussing how “teachers and students can select books that suit diverse interests and academic needs.” This information does not belong with the current paragraph, in my opinion, and would be more effective in other section of Larson’s …show more content…
Some information in this section can be dull, while some information can be engaging and easy to follow. I believe that in this section Larson has multiple ideas and points to be made that it can be overwhelming to the reader. There is a lot of important and valuable information in this section that should be broken up into smaller sections to be more effective. As with the last section, the information about English language learners is in an odd spot and should be placed in its own section.
However, there are strong points to highlight in the “Developing Fluency and Vocabulary” section of Larson’s piece. Larson presents valuable information about “immersion reading” and the benefits of that and recorded audiobooks in an easy-to-follow manner. I admire the contrast Larson provides between readers who enjoy audiobooks and readers that do not enjoy audiobooks. Larson gives examples of students, for example, the 2nd grade students looking up vocabulary words in E-Book dictionary, and their experiences with E-Books which further illustrates fluency and vocabulary benefits of
Larson draws …show more content…
Larson touches on the benefits that customizing an E-Book could hold for English language learners. I believe that mentioning this disrupts the readers flow of the section and can become distracting and regarded as information that does not belong there. Instead, I believe this information would have been more effective as its own section or belong to the “Developing Fluency and Vocabulary” section of Larson’s piece. The same goes for when Larson is discussing how “teachers and students can select books that suit diverse interests and academic needs.” This information does not belong with the current paragraph, in my opinion, and would be more effective in other section of Larson’s …show more content…
Some information in this section can be dull, while some information can be engaging and easy to follow. I believe that in this section Larson has multiple ideas and points to be made that it can be overwhelming to the reader. There is a lot of important and valuable information in this section that should be broken up into smaller sections to be more effective. As with the last section, the information about English language learners is in an odd spot and should be placed in its own section.
However, there are strong points to highlight in the “Developing Fluency and Vocabulary” section of Larson’s piece. Larson presents valuable information about “immersion reading” and the benefits of that and recorded audiobooks in an easy-to-follow manner. I admire the contrast Larson provides between readers who enjoy audiobooks and readers that do not enjoy audiobooks. Larson gives examples of students, for example, the 2nd grade students looking up vocabulary words in E-Book dictionary, and their experiences with E-Books which further illustrates fluency and vocabulary benefits of