Embedding Critical Literacy within Higher Education EFL Reading Courses: A Narrative Inquiry of an Indonesian Lecturer’s Practice
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This narrative inquiry examines how one EFL lecturer (“Ayu”) at a private Indonesian university embedded critical literacy in a first-semester Reading 1 course. Using three narrative interviews, weekly reflective journals, and course documents collected over one semester, the study found that Ayu reframed course goals from basic comprehension to “reading the world,” implemented scaffolded strategies aligned with the Four Resources Model and locally relevant texts, supported students’ gradual shift from silence to cautious critical voice through journals and small-group discussion, and negotiated constraints of time, proficiency, and exam-driven assessment by hybridizing conventional instruction with formative critical tasks. The study suggests aligning assessment with critical literacy aims, expanding professional development, and conducting multi-participant narrative inquiries to better understand critical literacy enactment in Indonesian EFL higher education.
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