Students’ ability to identify media bias in written press
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Keywords
Media bias, written press, reading comprehension
Abstract
The intention of this study is to analyze the relationship between reading comprehension and students’ ability to identify media bias in written press. The participants for this study were sixty EFL students from a language department of an Ecuadorian university. There was no random assignment of participants to the control and experimental groups. Information was obtained from a questionnaire by Browne and Keeley (2004). Data was coded manually, and the outcomes showed no significant improvement in students’ ability to identify media bias referred to the variable “time”. Also, there was no significance in the interaction of the variable “time” and the variable “group”, and there was little difference in the two times the test was taken by both groups.
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María Piedad Rivadeneira Barreiro, Universidad Técnica de Manabí, Ecuador
Profesora de Inglés de la Universidad Técnica de Manabí, Ecuador. Doctora en Educación con Mención Internacional otorgado por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.