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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"general reading"”.
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Perceived value of journals for academic prestige, general reading and classroom use: A study of journals in educational and instructional technology.
… for journal evaluation were Academic Prestige, General Reading, and Classroom Use. The perceived value of journals based on each criterion was compared to determine any significant differences. Members of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) were asked to rate 30 …
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A descriptive study of the development and evaluation of a program teaching reading through content subjects at Lodi High School
… to develop and examine a pilot program relating reading instruction specifically to course content and to collect data for seeking answers to the following questions:</p> <ol> <li>Can the general reading ability of disabled readers who are considered slow learners be significantly improved by a …
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Exploring the Growth of Text-Reading Fluency in Upper-Elementary English Language Learners during Instruction based on Repeated Reading
… read English skillfully is key to their success. Reading instruction focused on development of oral text-reading fluency has shown strong potential for accelerating the general reading achievement of native-English-speaking children, but there is a lack of concomitant research on English language …
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The effect of reading on a group of young men: how does it influence selfhood
… concerned with examining what the influence of reading is, on those young men who choose to read. Looking at the responses of a number of young men, a tripartite approach details the reading history of each respondent, discusses participants’ responses to their general reading, and examines …
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A Study of the Relationship Between Reading Instruction and Male Students' Reading Scores in Single-Gender Elementary Classrooms
… the impact of single-gender grouping on the reading performance of fourth grade male students and explore the levels of use of research-based reading strategies for their influence on reading achievement of male students in single-gender and mixed-gender class settings. The study population …
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The effects of an inference instruction intervention on the inference generation and reading comprehension of struggling readers in grades 6 and 7
… generation skill directly contributes to reading comprehension, as well as evidence that struggling readers make fewer inferences than proficient readers. This experimental study examined the effectiveness of a small-group inference instruction intervention on the inference generation and …
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The 1889 Lyman Beecher lectures on preaching and the recovery of the late homiletic of John Albert Broadus (1827-1895)
… in this chapter includes "The Minister's General Reading" and "The Minister and His Hymnbook." Chapter 5 surveys Broadus's fourth canon---"Delivery of Sermons," and the Yale lecture, "On Freedom in Preaching," is considered. Chapter 6 evaluates Broadus's final canon---"Conduct of Public …
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The differential calculus as the model of desire in French fiction of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… sense of totality in a new image of the state. A general reading of Sade shows how this new totality is based on an inertia of desire.
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From Science in the Arctic to Arctic Science: A Transnational Study of Arctic Travel Narratives, 1818-1883
… was perceived by both a specialist and general reading audiences, and how this process differed depending on national and cultural contexts at different points in the nineteenth century.
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The construction of Anglo-Indian spaces in middlebrow works of Raj fiction, 1880-1914
… Croker have since fallen into obscurity with the general reading public and as a source of academic inquiry. This thesis readdresses this oversight through a reading of women-authored works of Raj fiction, a field of colonial literature that this thesis identifies as being fiction produced between …
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Nonfiction and adolescent reading interests
Already popular with the general reading public, nonfiction can have a viable place in the English curriculum. However, in order to increase teacher as well as student enthusiasm for exploring this genre, nonfiction selections chosen for study in the English class must take into consideration …
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Wittgenstein and his students, 1912-1968
… Employing unpublished texts alongside a general reading of Wittgenstein’s oeuvre, this study ties the mid-century explosion of commentary on Wittgenstein’s “Linguistic School” to the instability of a peculiarly English concept of the don’s life. In specific, it assigns new agency to …