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Cicurel, Francine – Francais dans le Monde, 1991
An interactive approach to teaching French second-language reading comprehension is described. The method emphasizes involving the readers in the comprehension process and encouraging them to draw on prior learning to create hypotheses about the text's content. A four-stage instructional process is outlined. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, French, Prior Learning, Reading Comprehension
Download full textField, Mary Lee – 1984
Chinese students' reading strategies are shaped by their cultural assumptions and by the background information, or lack of it, that they bring to the material. Most important, their reading strategies are influenced by (1) traditional methods of reading that have led to investigating each word without always understanding the general concepts of…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Cultural Differences, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Balajthy, Ernest – 1984
A variety of reading process models have been proposed and evaluated in reading research. Traditional approaches to model evaluation specify the workings of a system in a simplified fashion to enable organized, systematic study of the system's components. Following are several statistical methods of model evaluation: (1) empirical research on…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Harrison, Brian – 1986
The teaching of reading in English as a second language is discussed, and an instructional model is proposed. The functions that reading can serve, the processes involved in reading, and the kinds of materials available for instruction in reading in a second language are examined in these contexts: style and content, problems of interpretation,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedGriffin, Patrick E. – Australian Journal of Education, 1990
The paper outlines the development of a scale describing the progression of literacy skills, based on similar scales used in second-language acquisition. The scale is shown to have high reliability and appropriate criterion validity. Use of the scale to analyze student reading development is illustrated. Appended are descriptions of the scale's…
Descriptors: Concurrent Validity, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Literacy
Farr, Roger – Curriculum Review, 1987
This discussion of assessing students' reading abilities focuses on the need for developing better tests and better interpretation of test scores. Criterion-referenced tests versus norm-referenced tests are described, highlighting the Degrees of Reading Power and Metropolitan Achievement Tests: Reading, and the need for assessing the reading…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Norm Referenced Tests
