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Levine, Sarah; Horton, William – Cognition and Instruction, 2015
This study explored whether a month-long instructional intervention in affective evaluation can help struggling high school readers to engage in literary interpretation in ways similar to expert readers' practices. We compared pre- and post-intervention think-aloud protocols from five high school students as they read a literary short story with…
Descriptors: High School Students, Literary Genres, Reading Skills, Intervention
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Thompson, Ian – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2012
In this article I focus on the mediational role of communicative activity in the co-construction of meaning involved when pupils write collaboratively. I explore the developmental nature of peer intermental or social activity within a Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) by drawing on perspectives from sociocultural theory and the dialogical aspects…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Secondary School Students, Cooperative Learning, Teaching Methods