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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Adult Readers"”.
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Adult readers in the Soviet Union
This thesis is a study of ordinary adult readers and their reading preferences in the USSR in the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s. Chapter One provides background information on Soviet policies towards reading and on the changes in Soviet society which have influenced reading habits over the last 30 …
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Rethinking Bibliotherapy: Portraits of Gifted Adult Readers
… of discussion. Instead, I argue that gifted adults use metacognition to replace the need for discussion. Portraits of gifted adult readers (N=7) in their 30s-50s illustrate that metacognition has occurred over their lifespan regarding their reading, with only one participant actively engaging …
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Self-Concept Patterns of Inadequate and Adequate Adult Readers
… of self-concept of inadequate and adequate adult readers to determine what patterns of self-concept emerge in various groups. Inadequate and adequate readers were grouped according to sex, race, age, and type of educational institution.</p> <p>Method</p> <p>The Tennessee Self Concept Scale …
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Steel Riders : a novel for young adult readers and, An hermeneutical examination of Steel Riders
… Section One: Steel Riders, a novel for young adult readers, and Section Two: An Hermeneutical Examination q(Steel Riders. Section One: Steel Riders is a hybrid text based largely on the conventions of the detective novel. The protagonist of Steel Riders is a nineteen-year-old university …
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The process and importance of writing Aboriginal fiction for young adult readers: exegesis accompanying the novel "Calypso Summers"
… of writing Aboriginal fiction for young adult readers” is divided into three parts. Part A examines the impact of Indigenous protocols upon the process of writing that includes Aboriginal people, issues and culture. Part B explores the social realities of Aboriginal Australia and the role …
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Recombinative Generalisation and Psycholinguistic Grain Size: An Investigation of Reading Related Skills in Adult Readers and Children with Learning Difficulties
… assortment of words encountered by beginning readers of English (e.g., monosyllabic and disyllabic words, consonant blend words, regular and exception words). Seven experiments were undertaken with literate adult participants to thoroughly test the effectiveness of the new MTS training …
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Identifying academic reading strategies in a multilingual context
… the forms, ways, and mechanisms applied by adult readers at tertiary university education level to construct meaning in an ESP/EAP (English for Specific and Academic Purposes) multilingual educational context at the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), in Mozambique
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Warlock & the Bully
… has some comedic elements and is intended for adult or new adult readers. Warlock & the Bully navigates themes of homophobia, sexism, toxic masculinity and how society has changed and not changed since the late 1990’s with relation to the queer experience.
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What's in a game: Examining the effect of video game experience across reading and attentional domains
… lexical and sublexical reading aloud in skilled adult readers. Results indicated that video game experience was associated with faster lexical reading reaction times. In Experiment 2, we tested whether action video game experience was related to performance in an orthographic-phonological …
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Metacognitive skills and the adult developmental reader : issues in identification and instruction
… the levels of metacognition in developmental readers before and after ten weeks of instruction in metacognitive reading skills, (b) to examine differences in mastery of metacognitive skills determined by years away from secondary education, and (c) to investigate the effect of instruction in …
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Motivation and Reading Achievement: Understanding the Needs and Motivation Processes of Adult Literacy Learners
Adult struggling readers are understudied and most evidence-based remedial approaches target youth. This thesis examined relationships among motivation constructs across typical and struggling adult readers. Age was also investigated as a moderator in these relationships. Participants included 198 …
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Reading Through the Doldrums: Engaging Adolescence Reparatively Through Contemporary Coming of Age Comic Texts
… on the subject at hand. Reading reparatively, adult educators have the ability to confer what Avery Gordon calls “complex personhood” on their research subjects, as well as part versions of themselves. Using psychoanalytic understandings of the work of adolescence, with DW Winnicott as my main …
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The Wit and Wisdom in the Novels of Diana Wynne Jones
… published over forty books for middle school to adult readers, and her work continues to receive many awards for its creativity and high quality. Jones is a prolific and talented writer who has contributed to and influenced speculative fiction. She uses magical contexts to comment on social …
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Influence of Reading Proficiency on Text Representation in L1 and L2
Studies with adult readers have demonstrated that readers construct multi-level text representation while reading. According to Van Dijk and Kintsch (1983), these are the surface level, textbase level, and situation model level. The current project aimed to explore the effects of reading …
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Design, development, and formative evaluation of DB-notebook : a prototype computer-based tool to support less skilled readers
… of a prototype intended to support less skilled adult readers through a reading task are described. Less skilled readers are defined as students who have difficulty understanding school-assigned reading material because they lack metacognitive strategies. The prototype, called DB-notebook aims to …
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Individual differences in syntactic processing during reading: a psycholinguist’s “two disciplines” problem
… difficult to read than others. To understand why readers find these structures difficult (and thus, what mechanisms underlie syntactic processing in these contexts), one line of research has sought to link individual differences in reading to individual differences in cognitive abilities. Put …
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Searching the silences of war : a creative and theoretical exploration
… creative component Finding Sophie, is a young adult novel and Part Two, Searching the Silence, is the accompanying exegesis. Both the novel and the exegesis explore the Anzac myth’s impact on war narratives, the omission of women’s experiences in those narratives and silences in official …
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In between Materiality and Meaning: World, Dust and Daemon in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy
… a New Atheist fantasy fiction written to young adult and adult readers, Pullman’s enthusiasm for playing with and materializing obscure religious concepts and relating them to our real life through story-telling is remarkable. This research is aimed to analyse the methodologies and further to …
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The Influence of Orthographic Experiences on the Development of Functional Phonological Unit in Spoken Word Production
… and more exposure to characters, and 3) adult readers, who had the highest level of character knowledge and the most exposure to characters. Experiment 1 investigated whether the onset served as the functional phonological unit in producing monosyllables; Experiment 2 investigated whether …
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The ambiguities of empowerment: a deconstructive approach to the adult education work of Edward Roux in the 1930s and 1940s and its implications for present conceptions of learner materials for adult basic education and training (ABET)
… inherent in transactions between educators and adult learners studying at a basic level. Through analysing the case study of Edward Roux's text-based adult education intervention for Africans in South Africa in the 1940's, some conclusions on the resultant power arrangements were drawn. These …