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The Interplay among Silent Reading Rate, Comprehension, and an Audio Reading Model
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Etsuo Taguchi; Greta Gorsuch; Kristin Lems; Hiroto Toda; Toshiko Kawaguchi; Kirsten M. Snipp – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2024
This paper examines learners' fluency development in L2 silent reading rate and comprehension. In both L1 and L2 readings, a positive relationship between readers' silent reading rate and comprehension has not been as firmly established as theories might propose. Based on Wallot et al. (2014), the paper indicates the need to look at readers'…
Descriptors: Correlation, Reading Rate, Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency
A Community Within The Classroom: Dialogue Journal Writing of Adult ESL Learners
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Kim, Jungkang – Adult Basic Education: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Adult Literacy Educational Planning, 2005
This article presents my views and reflections on working with adult ESL learners at a community-based adult literacy program in the Southwest. In this article, I share my experience working with adult learners learning English as a second language and critically address and discuss issues significant to the learners in their language and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Journal Writing, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Student Uses of the Annenberg/CPB Telecourses in the Fall of 1984. Executive Summary and Final Research Report.
Crane, Valerie – 1985
Research was conducted to examine student response to the fall 1984 Annenberg/CPB (Corporation for Public Broadcasting) telecourse experience and to determine factors that influenced students' decisions to take and/or drop the course, how they used the materials available to them, how effective they found these materials to be, and how this course…
Descriptors: Diaries, Distance Education, Educational Television, Higher Education
Annenberg/CPB Telecourses: Comparisons of Student Uses; Interview Comment Report; Survey of Dropout Students; Study Log Report; in the Fall of 1984.
Crane, Valerie – 1985
Made up of four separate reports, this document presents comparisons and student comments for five Annenberg/CPB (Corporation for Public Broadcasting) telecourses offered in the fall of 1984: The Brain, Mind and Behavior; The Constitution: That Delicate Balance; The Write Course; The New Literacy; and Congress: We the People. Based on evaluations…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Diaries, Distance Education, Dropout Research