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Development of an e-Learning Program for Extensive Reading
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Okazaki, Hironobu; Hashimoto, Shinichi; Fukuda, Eri; Nitta, Haruhiko; Kido, Kazuhiko – Research-publishing.net, 2012
As extensive reading becomes more commonplace in the EFL/ESL classroom, there is a rise in the number of instructors and administrators who are looking for cost-effective and space-saving methods to carry out extensive reading activities. Two extensive reading systems to respond to such concerns were developed with the support of a Grant-in-Aid…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Program Development, Reading Programs
Urban Readers Spring Ahead (Open to Suggestion).
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Sherrill, Mary; And Others – Journal of Reading, 1994
Describes an eight-day high-intensity speed reading course offered in a high school as an alternative to classroom reading instruction. (SR)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, High Schools, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs
Speed Reading/Scholarship Skills for Gifted High School Students.
Tompkins, Stephen R. – 1979
A speed reading/scholarship skills course was offered to college-bound students in the Dallas, Texas, school system in 1977-78. Approximately 1,700 students took the 60-day elective course in 20 different high schools. As measured by the Nelson-Denny Standardized Reading Test and compared to college freshman norms, students registered the…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Gifted, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs
Developmental Reading Courses for College Credit.
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Brooks, Clifford C. – Journal of Reading, 1982
Reports on changes initiated to assist college students with less than adequate reading skills. (AEA)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Program Descriptions, Reading Habits
A Reading Program for Gifted High School Students.
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Jensen, Shirley – Roeper Review, 1979
The article describes a reading program for gifted high school students which includes speed reading, vocabulary development, spelling, advanced study skills, and a research paper. (PHR)
Descriptors: Gifted, Program Descriptions, Reading Programs, Research Skills
Multidisciplinary Aspects of College-Adult Reading; Seventeenth Yearbook of the National Reading Conference.
Schick, George B., Ed.; May, Merrill M., Ed. – 1968
Focusing on multidisciplinary aspects of college and adult reading, the 27 articles in this volume were drawn from the seventeenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1967. Among the topics discussed in the articles are the following: psychological embarrassments of reading, rapid reading, reading rate, tutoring in a college…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Students, Conference Reports, Content Area Reading
College Reading: Problems and Programs of Junior and Senior Colleges; Twenty-first Yearbook of the National Reading Conference. Volume II.
Greene, Frank P., Ed. – 1972
This is one of two volumes of papers drawn from the twenty-first annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1971. Focusing on junior college and college reading programs and problems, the 40 papers are arranged into the following categories: designs for programs, special admission students, ethnically different students, adult…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Conference Reports, Higher Education, Individualized Programs