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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"reading literature"”.
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A narrative exploration of the relationship between reading literature and poetry and ethical practice: narratives of student nurses and nurse educators.
… valid critiques and alternative perspectives. Reading literature and poetry is offered as an engaged and interpretive contribution to a teleological ethic characterised by attention to ends (e.g. human flourishing), cultivation of virtue, telling of narrative, recognising relationality and in …
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An Experimental Investigation of the Effect on Interest of Reading Children’s Literature to Sixth Grade Students in Aberdeen, Washington
To determine the effect of a teacher's reading literature upon the interest in reading books among sixth grade students, one group (experimental) participated in a twenty-eight week program of scheduled daily time during which they listened to literature read by their teacher. A second group …
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Bringing literature to life for sixth grade "reluctant readers": A collaborative, participatory study using Theatre for Young Audiences experiences to address aliteracy
With the current disenchantment toward reading literature among adolescents, this study explored if an Artistic Director of a Theatre for Young Audiences could lead the transformation of aliterate, sixth grade "reluctant readers" into becoming engaged readers of literature? These students have the …
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The Relationship Between English Language Learners' Phonemic Awareness and Decoding Skills
… students. There is a general consensus in the literature that phonemic awareness and decoding are strongly related during early reading development (Ehri, Nunes, Willows, Schuster, Yaghoub-Zadeh, & Shanahan, 2001). This study was designed to discover if ELLs and non-ELLs show similar …
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Perceived and actual level of knowledge of diabetes among medical-surgical nurses
… variables obtained from the DDS indicated that reading literature affected the subjects perception while no significant factors were found to affect their actual level of knowledge. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).
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The Correlation Between Close Reading as an Instructional Strategy with Reading Comprehension in Elementary Schools
… study was to analyze the effects of close reading instruction on students’ reading comprehension. Close reading is an instructional strategy that allows students to dig deep into the reading and gain a profound understanding of the vocabulary, writing structure and author’s message. The …
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The International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program: A Comparison of the Standards of Learning Achievement Levels by Total Group and Ethnicity
… that showed the greatest difference was English: Reading, Literature, and Research (15 scaled score points). Performance on the History/Social Science and Science SOL tests were virtually identical. For Black and Hispanic IBMYP students, the highest levels of performance were limited to the …
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Roles of the Dorsal and Ventral Visual Streams In Fluent Reading
<p>Despite the current emphasis in the reading literature on phonological awareness, visual deficits have also been observed in disabled readers. Visual processing has been shown to be abnormal in individuals with dyslexia (e.g., Eden et al., 1996), specifically in the dorsal visual stream of the …
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Evaluating Alternative Methodologies to Teaching Reading to Sixth-Grade Students and the Association with Student Achievement.
… to determine if an association exists between reading methodologies and reading achievement as measured by the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) for sixth-grade students. The four reading methodology groups were: developmental reading, literature-based reading, <em>Accelerated …
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‘Le Moyen de lire eux-mêmes’: Self-understanding and the Aesthetic Experience of reading in Proust’s A la Recherche du temps perdu
This thesis discusses the aesthetic experience of reading in Proust’s A la Recherche du temps perdu, with a special emphasis on the Narrator’s proposition that a literary work may enable its readers to become ’les propres lecteurs d’eux-memes’ (RTFIV, 610). This view prompts two crucial questions …
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The Plot and The Archive: Curation, Provisional Histories, and Novels
… studies, arguing for their importance in reading literature
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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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Virginia Tech Business College Alumni Reflect on Literature in their Lives
… require their business majors to take literature classes; others do not. Some businesspeople, as well as many educators such as Donna M. Kish-Goodling (1999), William McCarron (1980), and Philip Vassallo (1991), support the need for business students to study literature in order to …
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The Effects of the Advancement Via Individual Determination on Course Taking Patterns and Achievement of High School Students
… as measured by scaled scores on the English: Reading/Literature and Research Standards of Learning (SOL) Test scaled scores? Descriptive statistics were used to determine the mean, standard deviation, median and mode for the groups in the study. Three one-way Analysis of Variances (ANOVAs) …
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Manajemen zakat produktif pada Lembaga Amil Zakat (LAZ) Sidogiri Pasuruan
… of interviews and observations, as well as by reading literature library, internet, print media regarding the distribution of Zakat funds productively on LAZ Sidogiri Pasuruan. From the results of that analysis in terms of planning meetings held LAZ Sidogiri field, (RK-AL), Planning in charity …
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Faulknerian comedy
… expended in writing about—rather than writing or reading—literature.</p>
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Why won't they learn? : a contrastive study of literature teaching in two Cape Town high school classrooms
Literature is included as part of most English curricula around the world. South Africa is no exception, and students are expected to study novels, poetry and plays as part of their school language curriculum. There are many debates about the best way to teach these texts in the classroom. However …
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Adult Experience of Learning From Novels
… is known that learning is frequently an outcome. Literature on novels describe their content as both factual and philosophical opportunities to learn but do not describe them in terms of adult learning theory. A study by Radway (1984) found that readers of formula romance have complex learning …
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Responsible responding: the ethics of a literary criticism of the Other
… (Attridge 2005: JM Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event, xii), is conceptually rooted in Attridge’s tour de force on the theory of literary invention, The Singularity of Literature. In it he spins a complex, nuanced and powerful idea about the nature of literature as …
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Analisis akad jual beli istishna’ dan murabahah pada produk pembiayaan KPR: Studi kasus pada PT. Bank Tabungan Negara (Persero) Tbk. Kantor Cabang Syari’ah Malang
… interviews and the observations as well as by reading literature and internet literature regarding istishna' contract and murabahah contract used in the mortgage (KPR) financing in Shari'ah BTN Malang. BTN sharia branch Malang gives two choices of mortgage financing agreement, the agreements …
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