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Jennie M. Baumann – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Knowledge development, application, and refinement are essential parts of students' reading. One way to observe how students use their knowledge as they read is through talk. Studies routinely indicate that though reading is a social endeavor, teachers spend most of the allotted instructional time talking or using discourse patterns that do not…
Descriptors: Discussion, Text Structure, Intersectionality, Knowledge Level
Esther H. Yi – ProQuest LLC, 2023
A reader's ability to go beyond their surface-level understanding of words and to build a deeper representation of the text in their mind (i.e., reading comprehension) is predicated on a range of reader- and text-level variables that indicate how well a certain reader can read a certain text. The following study evaluates the extent to which the…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Reading Skills, Student Characteristics
Sarah Ann Barry – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This quantitative study endeavored to compare a new strategy of making irrelevant information less salient with a common reading strategy of highlighting to determine which would best aid students in making connections within and between multiple texts. Participants were 60 high school students, ranging in age from 14-17 years old. The adolescents…
Descriptors: High School Students, Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Relevance (Education)
Eliza Barach – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Emojis are nonverbal elements used in text-based communication that may function like gestures in spoken communication (Feldman et al., 2017; McCulloch & Gawne, 2018). Like words, emojis can convey semantic information and support message comprehension (Lo, 2008; Riordan, 2017b). Nevertheless, the cognitive and perceptual processes involved in…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Reading Skills, Text Structure, Reading Comprehension
Khalid Alghamdi – ProQuest LLC, 2023
A growing body of academic writing literature has been devoted to studying the rhetorical patterns and language use in diverse academic texts. One of the central goals of these studies is to demystify these texts to acquaint writers, particularly less experienced ones, with the genre conventions. However, Teaching Philosophy Statements (TPS) as a…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Philosophy, Content Analysis, Text Structure
Julia R. Flanigan – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Children with a specific learning disability often struggle with written communication compared to their typically-developing peers (Graham & Harris, 2002; Graham et al., 2017; Troia, 2006). The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of a researcher-created instructional strategy (i.e., "Audience and Structure…
Descriptors: Children, Learning Disabilities, Educational Strategies, Perspective Taking
Larissa Goulart – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Written assignments are, perhaps, one of the most common types of coursework that students will encounter in their undergraduate studies. This study describes the communicative purpose and textual and linguistic characteristics of university assignments written for content classes, taking into account variation across communicative text types and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Language, Writing Skills, Student Writing Models
Takshak Desai – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Reading comprehension can be analyzed from three points of view: Semantics, Assessment, and Cognition. Here, Semantics refers to the task of identifying discourse relations in text. Assessment involves utilizing these relations to obtain meaningful question-answer pairs. Cognition means categorizing questions according to their difficulty or…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Semantics, Questioning Techniques, Language Processing
Ashton Hughes – ProQuest LLC, 2022
High school graduates should be able to read to complete everyday tasks. Without this ability, their quality of life could decline from the lack, a negative mindset, or both. Therefore, educational stakeholders aiding students with reading struggles must find the most effective solutions for these students. Students achieving below-average on…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Text Structure
Shoshannah Brienz Jenni Lane – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The employment of genre-based pedagogy and Task-Based Language Teaching in second language education is representative of a paradigmatic shift towards a focus on meaning-making. Despite this shift, second language acquisition (SLA) research continues to predominantly rely on complexity, accuracy, and fluency metrics to assess learner production…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, German, Electronic Mail
Danielle N. Murray – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Students in the United States are struggling to show proficient comprehension in reading, with only 35% of the nation's fourth graders scoring proficient or higher on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in 2019. Since the adoption of the Common Core State Standards (National Governors Association Center for Best Practices &…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, 21st Century Skills, Grade 4, Grade 5