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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Reading behaviour"”.
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Adolescents as public library users
… this research are to examine the library usage behaviour of adolescents, specifically those attending a high school in Grassy Park and those using Grassy Park Library. A central aspect of this research was to identify the types of library needs (curricular and non-curricular) that these two …
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Reading strategies and learning outcomes
… at improving the range and effectiveness of reading-to-learn. Students (Advanced Level and Undergraduates) report reading-to-learn problems but they are only vaguely aware of the cognitive organisation (intuitive tactics and strategy) which underlies and structures their reading behaviour. …
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How reader and task characteristics influence young readers’ comprehension monitoring
… monitoring is an important component skill of reading comprehension (e.g., Cain, Oakhill & Bryant, 2004). Despite the importance of comprehension monitoring in reading comprehension, relatively little research has been undertaken to explore the development of comprehension monitoring or the …
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The determinants of auditory distraction during reading: an eye-movement investigation.
Everyday reading rarely occurs in complete silence. Whether reading at the office, on the way to work, or in a cafeteria, people are often exposed to background sounds such as speech, noise or music that may distract them from their task. While a lot of research has focused on how background sounds …
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Effekte simultanen Hörens und Lesens auf das L2-Lesen : eine Eyetracking-Studie im Bereich Deutsch als Fremdsprache
… the effects of simultaneous listening and reading on visual information processing, text comprehension, and memory performance of Chinese participants on an advanced level of German as a foreign language (L2) when reading German literary texts. Two conditions were compared: reading (R) and …
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LeeLee : an attention visualisation analysis while reading academically
Understanding attention during academic reading is fundamental in the context of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Attention is a limited, yet essential resource that is crucial for processing academic texts and performing focused reading tasks. In a hyper-connected society, distractions from …
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Recreational reading : a case study of recreational reading habits of some primary school pupils and the role of the teacher-librarian in intervention strategies
An interest in the topic of recreational reading was prompted by the observations and experience of the researcher. The study that followed was intended to confirm or refute the theory of the decline of reading. A perceived decline in reading has concerned teachers and librarians and strategies …
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A metacognitive approach to teaching reading comprehension in the primary school classroom
… theory to the development of children's reading comprehension. It does so by evaluating the effects of a metacomprehension training programme on children's reading comprehension. In so doing the thesis draws together the three strands of theory, teaching practice, and educational policy …
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Comparing the Effects of Narrative and Expository Texts on Teacher Instruction and Child Processing in Junior Guided Reading
… advocacy for the use of expository text for reading instruction in junior classrooms has been matched by an increase in the publication of this material. However there is little research evidence about how teachers are using these texts, or how children read them. This study, informed by …
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Reading children : how children and selectors perceive and construct the reading of fiction in two South African schools
… readers and what their own feelings were about reading; and to speculate on the extent to which policies are changing or can be changed. In order to do this I have looked at the situation in two schools with very different histories in the Western Cape. I have tried to establish what the …
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An eye tracking study of sentence reading in aphasia: influences of frequency and context
Mild reading difficulties are a pervasive symptom in aphasia, but are little researched. Eye tracking research with neurologically healthy participants has demonstrated that reading is influenced by a number of information sources that are related to our experience with language. Two of these …
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Assessing the impact of a public library's print collection: a case study of two public libraries in Cape Town
… libraries are potentially the only source of reading material for over fifty percent of the population. Thirdly, The Library and Information Services (LIS) Transformation Charter calls for more effective and meaningful performance measurement. The research design for this study was informed by …