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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Reading Research"”.
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A Study Of Southwest Florida High School Reading Teachers And The Implmentation of Scientifically Based Reading Research Instruction
… (2001) swiftly and directly have an impact on reading teachers. The literacy directives of the act constitute a paradigm shift in reading reform, especially at the secondary level. Literacy directives require state and district level administrator's to focus on secondary reading teacher pre and …
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‘The decentralisation of authorship and language within contemporary theatre: triangulation of critical reading, research into practice, and research through practice’
This practice-led research aims to contribute to contemporary theatre by focusing upon the decentralisation of authorship and language through: critical reading of Artaud, research into practice, and research through practice. Whilst contemporary theatre already benefits from research into …
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Scientifically based reading research strategies in the preschool classroom: An investigation into quality early childhood reading practices and literacy acquisition in one northern Michigan early reading first program
<p>A growing body of research has emerged to support the concept of providing early childhood education as a quality investment for our children, unlocking early potential and creating lasting impacts related to school success and beyond. Several landmark studies indicated that a quality education …
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An informatics system for exploring eye movements in reading
… techniques have been widely used in many research areas including cognitive science, psychology, human-computer interaction, marketing research, medical research etc. Many computer programs have emerged to help these researchers to design experiments, present visual stimuli and process the …
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The effects of illustration inclusion, placement, and type, and target language experience on foreign language learners' comprehension of text
Both first language (L1) and second language (L2) reading research have suggested that illustrations facilitate comprehension, though results have been disparate. Moreover, L2 research has been minimal and many variables shown to be important in the L1 literature have not been manipulated in L2 …
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Word Identification and Eye Movements in Reading Chinese: A Modeling Approach
… such as word identification and eye movements in reading Chinese. This study has also set a new direction and established a new framework for reading research in Chinese.
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Effects of story grammar on reading comprehension of L2 readers of French
… has had a profound impact on second language reading research in the last decade. A schema-theoretic view of reading acknowledges the role of the reader as an active participant whose background knowledge allows him or her to reconstruct meaning from a text. Background knowledge is not only …
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The effects of task, language of assessment, and target language experience on foreign language learners performance on reading comprehension tests
Current foreign language reading research is disparate in nature. Researchers use a variety of assessment tasks which may or may not be comparable across studies. Some tasks are carried out in the subjects' native language while others are performed in the target language. Furthermore, the …
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The Relationship between Comprehension and Literature Based Reading Program
Previous research indicates that children involved in a literature based reading program are actively involved in the task of reading. Research also indicates that children in literature based programs made significantly higher gains in reading versus their peers in a basal reading program. In the …
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Using Electronic Books to Increase Elementary Students’ Motivation to Read
… that elementary teachers face is developing a reading program that adequately meets the need of all students. Given that not all students learn in the same manner, it is imperative that teachers find ways to motivate and excite all students when it comes to reading. Research has shown that …
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The Mis-Education of the Negro Continues: The Connection Between the Beginning Reading Instruction Delivered to Three High -Performing Black Girls and the Instruction Delivered Within Schools Designed to Colonize
… the focal students' schools restricted their reading development by: (a) delivering fragmented reading instruction that typically withheld critical thinking and problem-solving strategies, (b) limiting the roles of parents to passive participants, (c) making teachers more accountable to their …
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The influence of prior knowledge on specific reading competencies in assessment: Their interrelations and influence on comprehension
… how prior knowledge may influence specific reading competencies (inference ability and sensitivity to important text information) and how any of these influences may affect reading comprehension test performance. Item options from a state-wide standardized reading comprehension test were …
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The Relationship Between Phonemic Awareness and Preschool Children's Literacy Activities
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A cross-cultural and cross-linguistic analysis of deaf reading practices in China: case studies using teacher interviews and classroom observations
… like English (Share, 2008). Cross-cultural reading research reveals alternative modes of processing text that is not entirely phonological. Chinese is known for its non-alphabetic script and its greater reliance upon morphological processing (Anderson & Kuo, 2006), visual skills (Ho & …
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Visual motor coordination and reading: a correlational analysis part II
… to determine if there was a correlation between reading rate and visual-motor coordination. This study was a replication of the researcher's prior study. The population of interest was the only differing aspect. This study used 32 high school 9<sup>th</sup> and 10<sup>th</sup> grade students from …
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An exploration of the impact of teachers' instructional practices in teaching phonemic awareness to kindergarten and first grade students
… How have the teachers’ efforts in implementing a Reading First program been rewarded? The participants in this study are two first grade teachers, two kindergarten teachers, and one kindergarten and first grade reading interventionist. Qualitative methods of single, cross case analysis were …
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Intonation And Reading Skills In Fourth-Grade Students
… to examine the role of intonation skills in the reading comprehension of fourth-grade students. Although, the National Reading Panel's (2000) definition of reading fluency as "...the ability to read a text quickly, accurately, and with proper expression..." (p. 3-5) suggests a role for prosody …
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Balancing the pendulum : a single case study of early-career teachers’ perspectives on the influence of preservice education self-efficacy in teaching literacy in New York.
… addressed the five essential components of reading instruction, including phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension, which collectively underpin the Science of Reading (Holston et al., 2023). More troubling, approximately 40% of these programs continued to endorse …
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Nature and prevalence of reading difficulties in the third grade : Lusaka rural and urban schools
… at investigating the nature and prevalence of reading difficulties in the third grade of Lusaka rural and urban schools. A sample comprising 106 pupils selected from Chongwe, Lusaka Boys, Lusaka Girls and Northmead Basic schools participated in this study. A number of instruments were used to …
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Cognitive and Linguistic Factors of Reading Arabic: the Role of Morphological Awareness in Reading
Scientific reading research has produced substantial evidence linking specific reading components to a range of constructs including phonological awareness (PA), morphological awareness, orthographic processing (OP), rapid automatized naming, working memory and vocabulary. There is a paucity of …
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