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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Models of reading"”.
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Causal metacognitive-motivational models of reading comprehension in reading disabled and normal achieving readers : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology
Contemporary models of reading indicate that reading achievement and impairment are the products of the complex interaction of motivational, cognitive and metacognitive processes. Most previous research has relied on correlational studies to examine the links amongst these variables. Given the …
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The spirit in the church: instituting the holy in George Herbert's poetry and prose
… creates an architectural church that in turn models the interior space of the Protestant believer. Turning away from these earlier models of reading, my work puts forward the idea that the "church" of Herbert's poems refers not to a static edifice or interior space but toward the site of …
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Reading as rewriting: Miguel de Unamuno, Jorge Luis Borges and the Quijote
… authors according to their shared interest in reading and rewriting Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quijote de la Mancha. Across their vast respective bibliographies on Cervantes, from Vida de don Quijote y Sancho and ‘Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote’, both examine the canonical Spanish work from …
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App-based intervention for children with reading difficulties : a description of five cases
… study aimed to describe the outcomes of an application (app)-based intervention for five children with reading difficulties. All participants were required to have a grade one reading level. Each participant’s language and literacy profiles are detailed in accordance with developmental …
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Unfolding time : a projective model for the moving image
… events happening in time has spawned a lineage of moving-image transcription systems, from early cinematographs to contemporary digital camcorder equipment. These technologies have arisen, however, amongst a setting of concentrated discourse surrounding the nature of what it means to exist as a …
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Participation of Parents in the Administration of Students for Integral Education: a Case of Dar Es Salaam Day Secondary Schools
… to do learning activities at home and sharing of educational issues. It also aimed at finding out the degree of co-operation between parents and teachers. Lastly, it intended to find out the role of the government in nurturing home learning spirit through its policies and circulars. …
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Reading words and reading minds: an investigation of the skills of children diagnosed with hyperlexia
This study presents an investigation of the underlying linguistic profiles often Hyperlexic children and explores the nature of the problems which give rise to their diagnosis. The subjects' unexpected exceptional decoding strength together with their similarly unusual reading comprehension failure …
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The development and evaluation of assessment tools and a model of reading development for supporting pupils within the Scottish policy context of closing the attainment gap in reading
… to the Scottish educational psychologists’ professional development programme, illustrating how particular instructional practices and approaches support the aims and objectives of the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence, by analysing how they exemplify models of learning compatible with the …
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Examining Relations between Executive Functions and Decoding: A Meta-analytic Investigation
<p><strong>Introduction:</strong> The Simple View of Reading (SVR) is one of several established models of reading that present decoding and linguistic comprehension as critical skills in the development of reading competencies. Previous research has highlighted the connection between reading …
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Understanding Reading Intervention from a Child's Perspective: Interviews with Adolescents, Parents, and Teachers
… study explored the perceptions and experiences of the middle school students who participated in learning center support as elementary students in independent schools. There were 16 participants from three sites included in the study: six students, seven parents, and three learning specialists. …
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An eye-movement analysis of the word-predictability effect
The primary aim of this thesis was to identify the mechanism under-pinning the word-predictability effect, while a secondary aim was to investigate whether words are processed in serial or parallel. In five experiments, adults’ eye-movements were monitored as they read sentences for comprehension …
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Tekst prasowy w dydaktyce języka polskiego jako obcego. Studium psycholingwistyczne
Celem przedstawionych badań było prześledzenie możliwości wykorzystania tekstów prasowych w nauczaniu języka polskiego jako obcego oraz analiza procesu rozumienia tekstu prasowego. W rozprawie omówiono problematykę analizy oraz przetwarzania tekstu i dyskursu w kontekście nauczania języka polskiego …
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The Stakes of Mimesis: Tracing Narrative Lines in the works of E. T. A. Hoffmann and Honoré de Balzac
My project offers a set of comparative close readings of texts by E. T. A. Hoffmann and Honoré de Balzac. Balzac’s early fiction, I contend, grapples with questions relating to the representational practice of mimesis through an explicit engagement with Hoffmann’s work. Hoffmann’s fiction, in turn, …