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Kalypso Iordanou; Constantina Fotiou – Frontline Learning Research, 2025
We report a study examining, for the first time, the effectiveness of engagement in dialogic argumentation in relation to its ability to promote integration of multiple source perspectives in an argumentive writing task after reading controversial multiple texts. Sixty-four primary school students engaged in a dialog-based intervention aiming to…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Persuasive Discourse, Learner Engagement, Credibility
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Asad, Muhammad Mujtaba; Khan, Sidra; Sherwani, Fahad; Banerjee, Jyoti Sekhar – International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 2022
Purpose: Internet technology in the classroom has become the primary demand of every student in this era. Moreover, information and communication technology aids students' learning involvement and progress by providing learning assistance by improved instructor, pupil and interactions with fellows. Using an asynchronous Web-based learning…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Electronic Learning, Educational Environment, Student Interests
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Strømsø, Helge I.; Bråten, Ivar; Brante, Eva W. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
We explored potential profiles of interest, attitudes, and source evaluation by performing cluster analysis in a sample of Norwegian upper-secondary students. Differences among the profile groups with regard to multiple-document use were examined. The profile groups were partly consistent with the default stances described by the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Information Sources
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Marquez, Gloria Rubio; Colby, Sherri Rae – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2021
The purpose of the present case study was to explore fourth-grade dual language learners' interactions with culturally relevant children's literature. The present study involved observations of six second- and third-generation immigrant students participating in read-aloud sessions with the teacher reading the text and the students responding…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Culturally Relevant Education, Cultural Awareness, Consciousness Raising
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Turcotte, Catherine; Caron, Pier-Olivier – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2020
This study conducted with French-speaking students living near Montréal, Canada, assess if teaching the shared knowledge between reading and writing of informative texts improves reading comprehension in fourth grade (9-10 years old) to a greater extent than teaching that separates reading and writing. Teachers participating in the experiment…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction, Reading Writing Relationship, Reading Comprehension
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Katsara, Ourania; De Witte, Kristof – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2019
This article discusses the teachers' role in self-directed learning (SDL) -- a central concept in adult education. We explore the use of Socratic questioning to develop critical thinking, which is the outcome of SDL in problem-based learning (PBL). In particular, we analyse 11 adult learners' reflective journals in relation to a Socratic seminar.…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Teaching Methods, Adult Learning, Independent Study
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Daskalovska, Nina – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2014
A number of studies have demonstrated that second/foreign language learners can acquire vocabulary from reading. This study was designed to examine whether advanced EFL learners can acquire vocabulary incidentally from reading an authentic text. Eighteen first year English major students read and listened to the first eight chapters of Pride and…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, English (Second Language), Novels
Soiferman, L. Karen; Straw, Stanley B. – Online Submission, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate what teachers in a Western Canadian province were doing when engaging their students with literature. Forty two teachers from Kindergarten through to Grade 12 were interviewed, which allowed us to get a broad perspective on the types of reader response activities that are being taught in the classroom…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reader Response, Literature Appreciation, Teacher Attitudes
Zayed, Jihan – Online Submission, 2016
Adopting a qualitative design, the present study aimed to highlight Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of dialogism in relation to the objectives of teacher education in KSA. To bring this theory to teacher education, the study considered the ways in which students, texts and the instructor interact--enter into dialogue--in order to generate meaning and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Theories, Teacher Student Relationship, Reader Text Relationship
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Wan-a-rom, Udorn – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2010
Matching learners with the right level of graded readers is necessary when graded readers are exploited as both simplified reading materials in extensive reading programs and major instruments in the experiments. A lack of controlling ability level can prevent learners from succeeding in developing reading in an extensive reading program. It would…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Reading Materials, Reading, Reading Programs
Day, Richard R.; Park, Jeong-suk – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2005
This article presents a detailed picture of six types of comprehension and five forms of questions that can be used to help students become interactive readers. The taxonomies of the types of comprehension and the forms of questions may also be used as a checklist for language teachers as well as materials developers. Teachers can use the…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Reading Comprehension, Language Teachers, Foreign Countries
Dollerup, Cay; And Others – 1989
This paper briefly reviews the state of the art in reader response research with special reference to the Danish studies in reader responses. The paper then proceeds to a discussion of a number of methodological problems inherent in setting up questions for cross-cultural (and international) studies in general, and for reader response studies in…
Descriptors: Adults, Cross Cultural Studies, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries
Dollerup, Cay; And Others – 1987
This paper, the fifth of seven, part of an interdisciplinary project on the context of reading and reading research that explores similarities and dissimilarities in the response to literature in readers from different cultures, describes the methods used for the construction of a questionnaire for readers' social, educational, financial, and…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Correia, Rosane – English Teaching Forum, 2006
Using a reading lesson designed for advanced university students in Brazil, the author discusses different types of exercises that can help students become more active readers and be more critical about the reading materials. The author distinguishes between passive and active reading tasks and argues that active tasks are more beneficial because…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Critical Reading, Reading Instruction