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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"history of reading"”.
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Multi-sensory teaching techniques in foreign language acquisition for students with specific learning disabilities and dyslexia
… teach a foreign language. A detailed description of the multisensory learning technique is given and its application to language acquisition, writing and spelling. A discussion of the history of reading is followed by chapter on reading instructions for learning disabled pupils. An outline of a …
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Thus have I read: the place of reading in the practice of Buddhism
Purpose: Reading plays a central role in the transmission, reception, and practice of Buddhism. This dissertation seeks to address a perceived gap in Buddhist studies by suggesting that reading constitutes a valid strategy of practice and a useful phenomenon to analyse Buddhist roles and …
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Improving the Reading Achievement of Selected At-Risk Readers: One School Division's Approach
This study describes the long-term reading achievement of a group of children identified by teachers in 1994 as low-achieving students in reading. Four research questions guided the study, and the 165 participants came from 12 elementary schools in Montgomery County, Virginia. They were selected, …
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Computers, cut-ups and combinatory volvelles : an archaeology of text-generating mechanisms
Through an archaeology of text-generating mechanisms, the present work excavates the deep history of reading and writing as material, combinatory practices. On the one hand, by positing the physical manipulation of language as a form of reading and writing, this archaeology answers Roger Chartier's …
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Privacy and print: Reading and writing in seventeenth century England
"This study proposes that the emergence of the concept of privacy as a personal right, as the very core of individuality, is connected in a complex fashion with the history of reading. Amid the religious, political, and technological changes of seventeenth-century England, the printed book became …
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Assisted reading as a remedial reading technique at the high school level: a psycholinguistic evaluation
The major purpose of this study was to determine if seven high school students with a history of reading problems would demonstrate more effective use of the graphophonic, syntactic, and semantic cue systems involvement in reading by means of a whole language approach. The underlying assumption of …
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Handling Bibles in the Nineteenth Century
… devotional space, work surface, recyclable stack of paper, gift, counter-gift, relic, study aid, scaffolded syllabus, unprocessed data, or a notebook. This thesis examines bibles under all these guises—bibles read or handled, mostly by evangelicals, in nineteenth-century Britain and the British …