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Masoud Mahmoodi-Shahrebabaki; Eric Oslund – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2025
The present study aimed to explore the relationship between reading attitude, motivation, and the metacognitive awareness of reading strategies (MARS) of adult English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. Ninety-seven Iranian intermediate EFL learners participated in the study after a multi-stage sampling. The initial analysis suggested high…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Metacognition, Reading Strategies, Reading Motivation
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Zhihong Xu; Kausalai Wijekumar; Qing Wang; Robin Irey; Hua Liang – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Underdeveloped reading comprehension skills can limit academic success; a particular challenge for English language learners (ELLs). The current study investigated whether a web-based text structure strategy, delivered via the Intelligent Tutoring of Structure Strategy (ITSS) program to adult Chinese ELLs, improved students' use of reading…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Reading Instruction
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Olszewski, Arnold; Cullen-Conway, Margaret – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2021
Dialogic reading, in which parents engage children in discussion of books, is associated with long-term literacy success. Social media is an emerging platform for promoting behavioral change, but it has yet to be tested as a platform for engaging parents in use of dialogic reading strategies with their young children. This exploratory study was…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Social Media, Preschool Children
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Yumus, Melike; Turan, Figen – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
This study examined implementation of a newly developed shared book reading intervention program, to boost infants' early skills and provide a solid foundation for continued language learning. A randomised control study was conducted to elevate the effects of Shared Book Reading Intervention with 20 parents (n = 10 experiment, n = 10 control) and…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Reading Strategies, Intervention, Infants
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Tary, Blanka – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2023
The aim of the present study is to identify teachers' reading strategy use in L1 (mother tongue) and L2 (foreign language), and also to examine whether background variables such as gender, qualification, teaching experience, platform of teaching, reading habits, majors, L2 level and the number of L2s known make a difference in teachers' reading…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Habits
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Ouyang, Jinghui; Huang, Lingshan; Jiang, Jingyang – Journal of Research in Reading, 2020
Providing glosses that explain the meanings of unknown words is a common method of promoting learners' learning of new words. Numerous studies have shown that compared with no-gloss condition, glosses benefit the learning of the meaning of new words. This study combines both online (i.e., eye-tracking) and offline (i.e., immediate vocabulary…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Reading Instruction
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Wood, Katherine R.; Wood, Eileen; Gottardo, Alexandra; Archer, Karin; Savage, Robert; Piquette, Noëlla – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2021
This study provided workshops for parents on either early literacy or socio-emotional learning to examine the impact on their children's reading and social skills development (n = 576 parents; n = 584 children). Parents of kindergartners were offered interactive workshops designed to help them identify everyday opportunities to support reading…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Workshops, Parent Education, Emergent Literacy
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Jones, Jennifer Call; McDonnell, Andrea P.; Johnston, Susan S.; Blue, Cheri Wild; Tolbert, Malynda – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023
Dialogic reading is a shared reading intervention which has been shown to increase children's oral language skills. Although dialogic reading has been heavily researched and replicated with a variety of populations, this study uniquely focused on outcomes when parents of children with a developmental delay from low socioeconomic status homes were…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Program Effectiveness, Parent Education, Coaching (Performance)
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Moojen, Sônia Maria Pallaoro; Gonçalves, Hosana Alves; Bassôa, Ana; Navas, Ana Luiza; de Jou, Graciela; Miguel, Emílio Sánchez – Annals of Dyslexia, 2020
The aim of this study was to investigate (1) whether a sample of highly educated individuals with dyslexia living under optimal personal, educational, cultural, and socioeconomic conditions continues to display core deficits in reading and writing skills during adulthood (extending prior results in Dutch, English, Hebrew, and Spanish to the…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Reading Comprehension
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Chin, Mei-Hui – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2019
This study explored whether second-language (L2) less proficient adult learners can become skilled readers by investigating the effect on students' attitudes to strategy use when explicit instruction of metacognitive reading strategies is combined with an extensive reading approach. Studies have shown that proficient learners employ a wider range…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Reading Skills, Student Attitudes
Rachel Dawn Keller – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Learning to read in English is difficult for adult English language learners due to their diverse background, their level of experience with literacy in their first language, and their reason and desire for wanting to learn to read in English. Teachers of adult language learners must consider the educational and language experiences of adults…
Descriptors: Arabic, Spelling, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, English (Second Language)
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Akemoglu, Yusuf; Laroue, Dayna; Kudesey, Carolina; Stahlman, Mary – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
In the current study, we describe a study of the Internet-based Parent-implemented Communication Strategies-Storybook (i-PiCSS). I-PiCSS is an intervention program designed to train and coach parents to use evidence-based naturalistic communication teaching (NCT) strategies (i.e., modeling, mand-model, and time delay) and reading techniques while…
Descriptors: Intervention, Parent Role, Evidence Based Practice, Teaching Methods
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Johnson, Amy M.; Guerrero, Tricia A.; Tighe, Elizabeth L.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2017
There is little empirical research available on the substantial problem of adult low literacy rates, and limited educational technologies are available to address distinct instructional needs of this population. This paper reports on development and testing of a version of Interactive Strategy Training for Active Reading and Thinking (iSTART) for…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Reading Strategies
Azar, Nawal – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation examined the effects of the inferencing reading strategy using a emotionally charged instruction for students from countries who do not speak English as their first language. A quasi-experimental study applying quantitative research methods to collect data from the two sections of Level four Reading classes during a ten week…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Improvement, Reading Comprehension, Adult Students
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Hall, Leigh A.; Ortlieb, Evan; Majors, Yolanda – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2016
Most people have struggled with reading in one situation or another, depending on their appreciation for the content, their prior experiences, and the texts. This department column shares ways for educators to help literacy learners unlock their potential with instruction anchored in their skills, knowledge, ways of learning, interests, and…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Adult Literacy, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies
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