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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"reading course"”.
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Value and Effectiveness of an Intervention Reading Course
… underprepared for the rigors of college level coursework. There are support programs such as tutoring and intervention reading courses that have been created to combat this problem and further prepare students to handle college level work, specifically reading. This study evaluated the …
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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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A study of teacher-student discourse in a college reading course using the portfolio process
… Inquirty throughout this study focused on discourse used during the portfolio process. The purpose was to determine what characterizes the discourse of teaching, assessing, and learning in a college level reading course using the porfolio process. Determining student integration and …
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Under-Prepared College Students' Perceptions of the Impact of Technology Integration in a Developmental Reading Course
… of technology integration in a Developmental Reading Course: participants perceived the advantages of using technology to enhance learning in, and beyond, their Developmental Reading Course; participants perceived the difficulties/disadvantages regarding the use of technology in the course; …
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Evaluation of a College Reading Course By Comparing Grade Point Average and Attrition Among College Freshmen
… was to examine the effectiveness of a college reading course as measured by subjects' semester grade point averages and attrition rate. The ex post facto investigation compared differences in mean grade point averages and attrition rates of high risk college freshmen between a group of …
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Learning and Study Strategies as they Relate to Success in an Open-Entry/Open-Exit College Developmental Reading Course
… to succeed in an open-entry/open-exit college reading skills course at a small, rural Michigan community college.</p> <p>The study combined qualitative data in the form of student interviews and quantitative data that consisted of LASSI scores from 41 students. The qualitative part of the study …
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Content area reading instruction for secondary teacher candidates: a case study of a state-required online content area reading course
… in a state-required, online preservice teacher course in content area reading instruction (CARI) at a large land-grant university in Minnesota. Few studies have been published to date on revitalized literacy teacher preparation efforts in CARI (See Vagle, Dillon, Davison-Jenkins, & LaDuca, 2005; …
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The Process of Change Experienced by Pre-Service and In-Service Social Studies Teachers in an Online Content Area Reading Course
… require social studies teachers to complete a course in reading integration to qualify for teaching certification in that state (Stilwell, 1999). Integrating reading into the content areas is commonly referred to as content area reading. By using content area reading, social studies teachers …
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Selected Input, Throughput, and Output Variables and Their Relationship to Academic Success in an Associate Degree Nursing Program
… students. The independent variables Nelson Denny Reading Test Score, ACT Composite Score, High School Grade Point Average, and College Transfer Grade Point Average were found to have a significant, but weak, positive relationship to Cumulative Nursing Grade Point Average. High School Grade Point …
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Developing the reading comprehension skills of English second language primary school teacher trainees at an Afrikaans-medium college of education
… (EL2) are inadequately equipped to teach reading comprehension skills. They test their pupils on literal, at the expense of inferential, reading skills. This investigation therefore sought to test the literal and inferential reading comprehension skills of a group of Afrikaans-speaking EL2 …
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The Creation of a Ninth Grade Literacy Course: One Teacher's Experiences in Teaching a Standards-Based Literacy Course
… experience with teaching a ninth grade literacy course. In response to consecutively low reading test scores, the administration in a rural high school in South Central Kentucky established a literacy course for all ninth grade students. This research illustrates the teacher’s implementation and …
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Blackstone's Commentaries: Foothold or Footnote in Louisiana's Antebellum Legal History
… order, in the year 1840, mandating a required reading course of legal materials for prospective bar applicants. Included in the list of materials was Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England. Louisiana's legal system has, from its inception, been based on the civil law, a …
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Examining How Novices, Apprenticing Experts, and Disciplinary Experts Approach Reading Academic Texts
… students are often unprepared for college-level reading, writing, and discourse. It is important to understand how various instructional practices affect students’ reading and writing abilities. The purpose of this study was to explore how reading and writing instruction grounded in a …
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Developmental Education Repeaters: Stories About Repetition
… enroll in at least one developmental education course in English, reading and/or math (NCES, 2010). Many developmental education students are unsuccessful in passing a developmental education course in their first and second attempts and retake the course sometimes five times before passing. …
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Translanguaging Space in the Academic English Reading Classroom: Chinese MA Students’ Perceptions and Attitudes
… within an EFL (English-as-a-foreign-language) reading classroom at a Chinese university. In this study, a translanguaging space is a pedagogically constructed, learner-centred space where students draw on diverse meaning-making resources to support learning. While translanguaging has been …
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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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An investigation of incidental vocabulary learning using English online consumer electronics review with undergraduates of Computer Science (EdD TESOL)
… It is generally considered that extensive reading may promote incidental vocabulary learning (Schmitt, 2010). The present study seeks to design an English reading course for Taiwanese undergraduates using online consumer electronics reviews as authentic materials so as to provide …
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Revising English 01: the creation of a developmental reading and writing course
Bartholomae contends that "a reading course is necessarily a writing course and a writing course must be a course in reading." At most community colleges, however, reading and writing are still taught as if they were independent of each other. The course on which this curriculum study is based, …
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The Effect of an Elective Independent Reading Program on Reading Scores and Interest in Reading in the Ninth Grade at Kurtz Junior High School, Des Moines, Iowa
… young people in today's society do not enjoy reading books as a leisure time activity, possibly because of methods of teaching or treating reading in the schools today. Independent reading classes are an attempt to overcome resistance to reading. The purpose of this study was to determine …
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