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Noam Siegelman; Irina Elgort; Marc Brysbaert; Niket Agrawal; Simona Amenta; Jasmina Arsenijevic Mijalkovic; Christine S. Chang; Daria Chernova; Fabienne Chetail; A. J. Benjamin Clarke; Alain Content; Davide Crepaldi; Nastag Davaabold; Shurentsetseg Delgersuren; Avital Deutsch; Veronika Dibrova; Denis Drieghe; Dušica Filipovic Ðurdevic; Brittany Finch; Ram Frost; Carolina A. Gattei; Esther Geva; Aline Godfroid; Lindsay Griener; Esteban Hernández-Rivera; Anastasia Ivanenko; Juhani Järvikivi; Lea Kawaletz; Anurag Khare; Jun Ren Lee; Charlotte E. Lee; Christina Manouilidou; Marco Marelli; Timur Mashanlo; Ksenija Mišic; Koji Miwa; Pauline Palma; Ingo Plag; Zoya Rezanova; Enkhzaya Riimed; Jay Rueckl; Sascha Schroeder; Irina A. Sekerina; Diego E. Shalom; Natalia Slioussar; Neža Marija Slosar; Vanessa Taler; Kim Thériault; Debra Titone; Odonchimeg Tumee; Ross van de Wetering; Ark Verma; Anna Fiona Weiss; Denise Hsien Wu; Victor Kuperman – Language Learning, 2024
This article presents the ENglish Reading Online (ENRO) project that offers data on English reading and listening comprehension from 7,338 university-level advanced learners and native speakers of English representing 19 countries. The database also includes estimates of reading rate and seven component skills of English, including vocabulary,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
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Reynolds, Kimberley – Children's Literature in Education, 2019
In Britain, children's literature studies emerged in the late 1960s, largely through the activities of what is now the Graduate School of Education at the University of Exeter. This article uses the Catherine Storr archive to revisit some of the contexts and concerns of those early days, many of which continue to have relevance. Storr was involved…
Descriptors: Authors, Childrens Literature, Archives, Fear
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Compton, Donald L.; Steacy, Laura M.; Petscher, Yaacov; Rueckl, Jay G.; Landi, Nicole; Pugh, Ken R. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2019
The overarching goal of the new Florida State University/Haskins Laboratory/University of Connecticut Learning Disability (LD) Hub project is to align computational and behavioral theories of individual word reading development more closely with the challenges of learning to read a quasi-regular orthography (i.e., English) for both typically…
Descriptors: Vowels, Pronunciation, Individual Differences, Learning Disabilities
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Schieble, Melissa; Kucinskiene, Lolita – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2019
The authors drew on empirical data from a blogging project that brought English teachers from the United States and Lithuania together online to discuss the young adult novel "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys. The novel tells the story of a 15-year-old girl, Lina, and her family, who are forcibly separated and deported to a…
Descriptors: Empathy, Electronic Publishing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Boutorwick, T. J.; Macalister, John; Elgort, Irina – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2019
One avenue for developing second language (L2) vocabulary knowledge is through Extensive Reading (ER). ER can provide opportunities for incidental learning to occur. Class time is often too restricted for sufficient attention to deliberate learning (Hunt & Beglar, 2005) meaning ER is important for L2 vocabulary development. This article builds…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Anson, Chris M.; Schwegler, Robert A. – College Composition and Communication, 2012
This article describes the nature of eye-tracking technology and its use in the study of discourse processes, particularly reading. It then suggests several areas of research in composition studies, especially at the intersection of writing, reading, and digital media, that can benefit from the use of this technology. (Contains 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Writing Research, Reading Processes, Writing Processes
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Guthrie, John T.; McRae, Angela; Coddington, Cassandra S.; Klauda, Susan Lutz; Wigfield, Allan; Barbosa, Pedro – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2009
Low-achieving readers in Grade 5 often lack comprehension strategies, domain knowledge, word recognition skills, fluency, and motivation to read. Students with such multiple reading needs seem likely to benefit from instruction that supports each of these reading processes. The authors tested this expectation experimentally by comparing the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Low Achievement, Reading Tests, Reading Processes
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McLeod, Stephen G.; Brown, Gavin C.; McDaniels, Preselfannie W.; Sledge, Lawrence – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2008
In response to widespread concern that many American students do not write well enough to meet the requirements of higher education and the workplace, the College Board's National Commission on Writing in America's Schools and Colleges has called for a writing revolution. A key component of this revolution is evaluation, with particular emphasis…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Writing Evaluation, Student Evaluation, Reading
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Hill, Lola Bailey; Hale, Mary Groenewoud – Reading Teacher, 1991
Responds to five questions which are frequently asked about the purpose and nature of Reading Recovery, a popular and successful program. (MG)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Phonics, Program Descriptions, Reading Instruction
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Tomlinson, Brian – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2000
Argues that extensive reading is the most profitable way of continuing to acquire a second language (L2) outside and after a language course. Offers a description of the proficient reading process and the typical L2 learner reading process and suggests a reading program that aims to help L2 learners become successful readers. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Independent Reading, Models, Program Descriptions
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Anderson-Inman, Lynne; And Others – Language Arts, 1994
Provides an overview of "ElectroText," a program to develop electronically enhanced versions of short stories for use in middle school language arts programs for at-risk students. Describes the setting and instructional context, the strategies used to gather information about what students did when they read in a hypertext environment,…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Hypermedia, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools
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Burns, Eila – British Journal of Special Education, 2006
Eila Burns undertook the enquiry that is the subject of this article while studying for her MEd degree at the University of Birmingham. She is now a lecturer in teacher education at Jyvaskyla University of Applied Sciences in Finland. The project she describes here aimed to assess the effectiveness of peer tutoring and the advantages of the…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Reading Skills, Learning Problems, Action Research
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Spillman, Carolyn V.; Lutz, Jay P. – Childhood Education, 1986
Describes how three schools applied "Writing to Read," a computerized writing and reading program, in kindergarten and first grade. (HOD)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Educational Philosophy, Grade 1
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Fargo, Jean E.; Collins, Marilyn – Journal of Reading, 1989
Describes a research project to evaluate the progress of adult beginning readers. States that the project gave the authors insight into designing and carrying out research; broadened their understanding of how students learn about the learning process; enriched their teaching; and helped them view others' research in a new light. (RS)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Evaluation Methods, Literacy Education
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Oberlin, Kelly J.; Shugarman, Sherrie L. – Journal of Reading, 1989
Examines how a literature-based reading workshop incorporating minilessons, sustained silent reading, and responses to literature in dialogue journals affected the reading attitudes and levels of book involvement of learning disabled middle school students. Finds clear demonstration that students' reading attitudes and involvement improved. (RS)
Descriptors: Journal Writing, Junior High Schools, Learning Disabilities, Literature Appreciation