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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"Reading process"”.
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Reading Process Comparison between Graphic Novel and Traditional Novels
… this study, I examined how readers use different reading process when reading a graphic novel and traditional novel. The guiding question for the study was how does the process differ when reading a graphic novel when compared to a traditional novel? This research is a qualitative study of one …
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Student and instructor perceptions of the L2 writing-for-reading process
Building on current research about the reading-writing connection, this study examines the writing-for-reading process in the context of foreign language instruction. The central research question which guides this study is: How do intermediate second language (L2) learners of German engage with …
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The effect of the length and structure of sentences upon the silent reading process
… the length and structure of sentences affect the processes involved in silent reading is a problem which has received little attention in the fundamental investigations of reading. This study is an attempt to deal experimentally, by means of an analysis of photographic records of eye movements, …
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Deaf Students’ Metacognitive Awareness of the Reading Process and the Characteristics They Feel are Inherent in Proficient Readers
… skills and strategies they utilize during the reading process and those they feel are inherent in proficient readers. The subjects involved in this study included fourteen tenth-grade and thirteen fourth-grade deaf students taking Language Arts/English classes from various residential and …
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The Effect Of Colored Accent Marks In Music Notation During The Sight-Reading Process For High School And College Wind Instrumentalists
… was to test new ways of improving the sight-reading process in music. This experimental study has been split into two identical studies completed in different settings. The first study utilized 56 volunteer wind instrumentalists from a high school band as subjects, while the second study …
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A Comparative Study of Mentally Retarded and Mentally Normal Boys of the Same Mental Age on Some Aspects of the Reading Process
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Clustered Layout Word Cloud for User Generated Online Reviews
… very large amounts of reviews make the review reading process time consuming. A text visualization can speed up the review reading process. In this thesis, we present the clustered layout word cloud -- a text visualization that quickens decision making based on user generated reviews. We used a …
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Teacher Perceptions of Guided Reading
… understandings and practices of the guided reading process. Guided reading is a process coined/originated in the United States by Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell, literacy teachers and researchers who have made numerous contributions to the education field with their books and programs. …
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A Study of the Nature and Significance of the Skills for Comprehending Difficult Poetry
This is a study of the process of comprehending poetry, especially difficult poetry. The investigation analyzes the process of reading poetry for understanding by examining four categories of difficulty delineated by George Steiner. The skills of each category are identified along with their …
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Retellings and Semi-Structured Interviews for Assessing Reading Comprehension of Standardized Test Passages and of the Illinois Inventory of Educational Progress Passages as Compared to Scores on Multiple-Choice Test Items
The literature in reading comprehension points to a disparity between current knowledge about the reading process and current assessment practices. Prevalent theoretical views favor a constructivist cognitive framework in which text meanings are determined by a composite of reader-related factors …
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Ad theophilum : a socio-rhetorical reading of Peter in Acts in "Codex Bezae Cantabrigiensis".
… the baggage the authorial audience brings to the reading process. These three horizons are intertwined to provide a holistic reading that attempts to account for each of these unique levels reading response. After an introductory chapter to explain the purpose, approach, and scope of this study, …
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Reading in Mandarin and English: Using Reading Miscue Inventory and Retrospective Miscue Analysis with Adult English Language Learners
… case study explored five college ELLs' reading processes in their native Mandarin language and the English language. The purpose of this case study is 1) to discover the reading process of five native-Mandarin-speaking adult ELLs at a large Midwestern university; 2) to learn their …
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Reading foreign language websites : a qualitative investigation of students' reading strategies in German
… interviews, the study identified Internet reading strategies the students used, and determined the difficulties they encountered in Internet reading activities. The observed strategies were related to four different types of reading tasks the students had to complete and to the language …
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The Emerging Paradigm of Reader-Text Transaction: Contributions of John Dewey and Louise M. Rosenblatt, with Implications for Educators
… transaction as a model for the dynamics of the reading process. The paradigm of transaction, implicit in John Dewey's writings as early as 1896 in "The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology," was originally described in terms of "interaction" between organism and environment. Only in 1949, in the …
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The Use of Reading Strategy Prompts in Math
… study explores the use of the three main reading strategy prompts from the cueing system in small group math instruction. It discusses the need for teachers in the secondary school setting to be knowledgeable about the reading process so that they can help struggling readers. The study …
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The Goodman psycholinguistic model of English reading and its applicability to Semitic languages
The present study investigated the reading process in Arabic by drawing on the Goodman Model of English Reading, and testing its applicability to Semitic languages. Due to the multi-tier nature of Arabic orthography (i.e. letters and diacritics), two questions were addressed: (1) how the …
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An assessment of the effects of the use of self-selected texts from the World Wide Web on foreign language reading comprehension
An assumption of the Whole Language model of reading is that self-selected text use is beneficial to students' reading proficiency. This experiment tests that assumption, and broaches a hitherto unexplored aspect of the reading process, namely students' reasons for text selection. The 68 …
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Principals' and Teachers' Perceptions of Elementary Turnaround Principals' Leadership Practices to Reading Achievement in One Virginia School Division
… continue to fall below proficiency levels in reading as measured by reading achievement tests (NAEP, 2019; Virginia Department of Education, 2021). In 2019, The Nation's Report Card disclosed that 37% of fourth-graders performed at or above the proficiency level on the National Assessment of …
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Creating Imaginary Worlds on the Page and in the Mind
… Iser’s phenomenological exploration of the reading process. The thesis interrogates the techniques and conceptual framework employed during the writing of three novels: The Bullet-Catcher’s Daughter (2014), The Queen of all Crows (2018), and The Fugitive and the Vanishing Man (2020). The …
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