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Reading aloud: Shaping reading attitudes
… (ability to read without willingness to do so)--Reading motivation.
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Reading aloud: Shaping reading attitudes
… (ability to read without willingness to do so)--Reading motivation.
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Sedimentations : reading genre, reading across genre
This thesis argues for, citing the example of four novels published at or near to the millennium, the establishment of antirely new genre. But implicit in this is an investigstion into what is meant by term 'genre'. Further the nature of these novels makes central the way in which these novels …
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THE EFFECTS OF EXTENSIVE READING AND READING STRATEGIES ON READING SELF-EFFICACY
… investigation into the role that extensive reading and reading strategies play in the cultivation of reading self-efficacy. Conducted over the course of one academic year, how changes in reading self-efficacy translate into changes in reading comprehension was examined. In addition, the …
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Metacognitive reading strategy instruction: improving second language reading comprehension and reading motivation
… aims to identify the effects of metacognitive reading strategy instruction on second language reading comprehension and reading motivation by a meta-analysis and a teaching intervention. There have been contradictory findings in the literature regarding the impacts of metacognitive reading …
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Reading Lacan reading: Freudian theory, literary text
… whose theoretical texts demonstrate a reading practice useful to literary critics. However, Lacan's reading practices remain largely unexplored by English-speaking critics because his reception has led to a conflation of Lacanian theory with Marxism or semiotics. Moreover, Lacan' s …
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Development of Reading Fluency During an Extensive Reading Course Incorporating Reading Fluency Tasks
Reading approaches in Japan and other EFL settings have typically focused on accuracy at the expense of fluency. However, reading rate and fluency are important components of reading that are currently being neglected. A review of the literature reveals growing interest in investigating the …
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Comparative Study of Reading First Schools Reading Achievement to Non-Reading First Schools.
… if there was any significant increase in the reading achievement of Reading First third grade students compared to the reading achievement of the third grade reading students in Non-Reading First schools located in southwest Virginia for 2004-2009. The Standards of Learning (SOLs) reading test …
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Reading Recovery
1 PDF file (72 leaves)
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The Correlation of Reading Outside School and Reading Proficiency
… investigate the relationship between time spent reading outside of school and reading proficiency, as measured by the Reading Comprehension component of the California Achievement Test. The underlying philosophy of this research stressed that the best way to develop reading ability is to provide …
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Pupil team activity, reading interest choices, and reading achievement
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
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Adult ESL Oral Reading Fluency and Silent Reading Comprehension
… academic program revealed that their oral reading fluency had a significant, low-to-moderate correlation with scores on a measure of silent reading comprehension. The correlation was slightly stronger for measures of accuracy than speed, and strongest for miscue ratio. The correlation …
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Effectiveness of the QAR Reading Strategy on Science Reading
<p>The Questions-Answer Relationship (QAR) is a reading strategy that guides student comprehension by allowing the student to demonstrate their ability to determine importance, make inferences, and monitor comprehension through questions. The study was conducted on high school students in physical …
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A reading program for reading specialists in primary grades
Whole language method.
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A reading program for reading specialists in primary grades
Whole language method.
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Living reading: The mutual construction of spirituality and reading
… of several local affiliates of the Illinois Reading Council, the author explores the multiple meanings of reading that emerged from the group's practice, to develop the notion of ""living reading."" The dissertation provides background on the historical contexts from which the reading …
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Impact of a Middle School Reading Strategies Elective on Reading Comprehension Test Scores and Reading Confidence
… middle school readers in acquiring the reading proficiency that would be required to succeed in higher level course work. Students remained in their regular English classes but devoted the elective period that their peers spent playing steel pans or learning perspective drawing to …
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Use of Reading Strategy to Assess Reading Medium Effectiveness: Application to Determine the Effects of Reading Medium and Generation in an Active Reading Task
… sharing among professions. However, electronic reading media have still not been well integrated into these settings, especially for non-routine cognitive tasks like active reading. Conflicting results from different measures (e.g., performance, preference) have been reported regarding their …
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The influence of extensive reading on junior high school students' reading motivation and reading performance in Taiwan
… in learning a foreign language can affect their reading motivation and performance in second language acquisition. As an important means of providing second language learners with systematic reading materials, extensive reading is an approach that involves a wide range of original and interesting …
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