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Rainey, Emily C.; Storm, Scott – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2021
In this exploratory case study, the authors employed an "interpretive communities" lens to investigate the ways in which 12 high school English teachers of one district read and reasoned with literary works. Primary data sources were verbal protocol interviews and semistructured interviews. Analysis revealed that the focal teachers…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, English Teachers, Literacy Education, Content Area Reading
Matheson, Ian A.; MacCormack, Jeffrey – Reading Psychology, 2020
The present study focused on examining how individuals make adaptations while reading non-linear graphic text by examining the role of executive functioning, as well as identifying and describing the reading processes individuals use while reading. Sixty-seven students in Grades 9 through 12 engaged in verbal reporting while reading graphic text,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Adolescents, Public Schools, Executive Function
Hare, Jill L. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Guided and grounded by Eisner's 1982 "Model of Transactions Between the Individual and the Environment," this paper explores how students negotiate perceptions of meaning that are both internalized through the art of reading a text and experienced through individualized transactions of representational and conceptual comprehension.…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Reading Comprehension, Reader Text Relationship, Language Arts
Yoo, Monica S. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2015
This case study examines how Ashley, a ninth-grade student, uses and applies metacognitive strategies for comprehension as she reads three different texts: a literary narrative, a history text, and a newspaper article. Interviews and think-aloud protocols were administered to investigate how the student thought about and enacted a variety of…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Metacognition
Greenleaf, Cynthia; Cribb, Gayle; Howlett, Heather; Moore, David W. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2010
In this Research Connections column, Editor David Moore interviews Cynthia Greenleaf, Gayle Cribb, and Heather Howlett. Greenleaf codirects the Strategic Literacy Initiative and leads professional development projects in its Reading Apprenticeship instructional framework. Her approach to disciplinary literacy instruction is based on her findings…
Descriptors: Interviews, Metacognition, Reading Instruction, Reading Processes
Lee, Yin Lam – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2010
Due to the dominance of behaviorism, applied linguistics, and cognitive psychology since 1960s, many research studies in reading focused on the accuracy and speed required for successful comprehension. There exists a research gap in understanding the individual differences among readers when reading the same text. This study aimed at investigating…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading, Applied Linguistics, Second Languages
Eva-Wood, Amy L. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2008
Assuming that readers' emotional responses can enhance readers' metacognitive experiences and inform literary analysis, this study of 11th-grade poetry readers features instruction that models both cognitive and affective reading processes. The author: (1) Presents a case for more explicit attention to emotion in language arts classrooms; (2)…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Literary Criticism, Metacognition, Reading Processes
Mason, Lucia; Scirica, Fabio; Salvi, Laura – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2006
Two dimensions of students' beliefs about meaning construction in reading processes, transmission and transaction beliefs, were studied. According to transmission beliefs, the reader's task is to understand the author's intended meaning, while transaction beliefs assign to the reader the role of active meaning constructor. Students' beliefs were…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes, Grade 7, Grade 11
Reeves, Anne R. – International Reading Association (NJ3), 2004
Why do adolescents happily read some texts but fiercely resist reading others? Why do some teens read widely while others almost never read? This book shows how to find answer these questions--and more--by observing adolescents complex relationships with reading and letting them explain why they resist or engage with text. Author Anne Reeves…
Descriptors: High School Students, Adolescents, Reading, Reading Processes
Keshavarz, Mohammad Hossein; Atai, Mahmoud Reza; Ahmadi, Hossein – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2007
This study investigated the effects of linguistic simplification and content schemata on reading comprehension and recall. The participants, 240 Iranian male students of English as a foreign language (EFL), were divided into 4 homogeneous groups, each consisting of 60 participants (30 with high proficiency and 30 with low proficiency). To elicit…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Schemata (Cognition), Linguistics, Reading Comprehension
Livingston, Melanie – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2004
Students say that teachers can "suck" for several reasons. Teachers suck when they are repetitive, boring, assume the worst about their students or refuse to listen to students' explanations for their apparent misbehavior, have too many rules, assign a task that seems impossible, talk too much, or when they separate students from a friend or a…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, English Teachers, Teacher Role, Student Attitudes
Baram-Tsabari, Ayelet; Yarden, Anat – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2005
Learning using primary literature may be a way of developing a capacity for scientific ways of thinking among students. Since reading research articles is a difficult task for novices, we examined the possible benefits of learning using primary literature versus secondary literature, particularly with respect to their influence on the creation and…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Scientific Research, Negative Attitudes, Scientific Literacy