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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"online reading"”.
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Enhancing online reading lists for tertiary education
Reading lists are a pedagogical tool widely used in tertiary education. Reading lists may provide pedagogical ‘scaffolding’ in which academics offer support to students through signposting and rich annotation on required readings. They thus have a critical role to play in transforming students into …
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Exploring Metacognitive Online Reading Strategies of Non-Native English-Speaking Translation Students
… in US universities, need to possess excellent reading skills in order to succeed. American universities also benefit from admitting students who do not require remedial English classes. Reading online has become an integrated part of college education, which requires students to have additional …
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An investigation of how multiple sources of information are integrated during online reading
The current project investigates the online processing consequences of a conflict between different levels of linguistic representation, specifically focusing on the relationship between the mechanisms supporting word recognition and the information conveyed at the sentence level. The first set of …
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An Exploratory Case Study of Korean L2 Readers’ Reading Strategy Development and Engagement in Online Reciprocal Teaching Classes
There has been a dearth of research investigating online reading strategy instruction and its impacts on L2 readers’ reading strategy development and engagement with online reading strategy classes, especially in the Korean context. This exploratory case study explores the development of students’ …
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What happened (and what didn't): prominence promotes representation of salient alternatives in discourse
… were nevertheless mentioned in the discourse. Online reading time measures in Experiment 2 indicated that emphasized words did not improve performance on all trials and only benefited memory to the extent that participants devoted extra time to them, although no such relation was observed in …
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Using the Raz-Kids reading program to increase reading comprehension and fluency for students with LD
… Raz-Kids will assist in supporting independent reading as well as increase a student's guided reading level, fluency, and comprehension. Four 1st graders with a learning disability in an inclusive classroom participated in the study. The Raz-Kids online reading program was provided individually …
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Reading and Responding: Finding and Making Meaning in the Life Writing of Diasporic Iranian Jewish Women
… ways. I show how, despite potential hegemonic readings that perpetuate unequal relationships and a normative definition of the ideal home, the texts are open to multiple contestatory readings that create spaces for new formulations and understandings. In the second chapter, I look more closely …
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Structured Read-Aloud in Middle School: the Initial Impact on Reading Assessment Scores
… not receiving special education or additional reading intervention services. Until recently, research on read-aloud in the middle school has been limited. For the current investigation, students in two middle schools within the same school system in Virginia were tested using the Diagnostic …
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The effects of character predictability on eye-movement control in reading Mandarin Chinese texts
All the major reading theories, which are primarily based on studies of alphabetic scripts, hypothesize that “word” is the basic unit of processing, but there is no consensus on whether this assumption is also true in Chinese reading. As word boundaries are not visually denoted in Chinese text, …
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The syntax and processing of relative clauses in Mandarin Chinese
… across languages. In this thesis, I report three online reading experiments on Chinese RCs. I show that even though Chinese is also an SVO language like English and French, the results with regard to processing subject-extracted versus object-extracted RCs in Mandarin Chinese are very different …
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Investigating The Necessary Components of a Sarcastic Context
… The ratings were then used to develop an online reading task to investigate the effect of negative tension on the processing of sarcastic and literal statements. Three groups of items were taken from the previous studies to form high negative tension; low negative tension; and literal …
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Morphological variability in long-distance subject-verb agreement: A study of native and nonnative processing
… agreement morphology. Participants completed an online reading task using a moving window self-paced reading paradigm. In order to explore whether increases in structural distance between agreeing elements leads to decreases in sensitivity to agreement violations (Clahsen & Felser, 2006; Gabriele …
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Accessing Information on the World Wide Web: Predicting Usage Based on Involvement
… the Web most often involves scanning rather than reading. Literature from several disciplines focuses on the myriad combinations of factors related to online reading but studies of the users' interests and motivations appear to offer a more promising avenue for understanding how users utilize …
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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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Protecting privacy: A case study on data collection and surveillance in educational environments
… life. We use and hear them often while shopping online, reading the news, or checking the policies and terms of websites. In this study, I highlight the challenges of data collection and surveillance in education, specifically, in online learning environments in higher education. While data …
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An exploration of student nurses’ experiences and development in non-judgementality, through the analysis of the learning of sexuality in preparatory adult nurse education
… two taught days of theory and discussion, online reading and multiple-choice assessment. Its aim was to increase awareness in nursing students of the importance of patients’ sexuality to their emotional and physical health and to encourage discussion on any anxieties surrounding the subject …
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Examining 'Enunciative Space' in an online community of practice
… constructivism. I examined the ways in which an online course can permit teachers to engage with current research in relation to both their personal contexts and each other in ways that lead many to transformational changes to their practice (Palloff & Pratt, 1999; Skolnick, 2000). I examined the …
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The Effect Of Different Presentation Formats Of Hypertext Annotations On Cognitive Load, Learning And Learner Control
… and pre-existing knowledge in this study of online education, similar to the interaction effect between annotation presentation formats and learners' reading experience found in traditional textbook learning (Yeung, Jin and Sweller, 1998; Yeung, 1999). Besides, students' computer experience …
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Use of plausibility information and structural preference in resolving sentence ambiguity in Korean
This study investigated online processing of temporarily ambiguous relative clause (RC) constructions in Korean to determine how multiple sources of information, such as syntactic preference and semantic plausibility, were employed in reading comprehension by three groups of Korean speakers with …
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The modern coterie: Fan fiction writers as a community of practice
… can be seen today in fan fiction writing groups online. This dissertation focuses on one group of such writers who are active at the LiveJournal blog site. Through the use of virtual ethnography, data has been collected over a period of four years for the purpose of exploring the concept of an …