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Kimberly Keebler Dresner – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Up until third grade, reading instruction is focused on learning to read, while in fourth grade and up, students begin reading to learn (Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2024; Grunke et al., 2013). This reading with purpose includes increasing critical thinking skills and using newfound reading skills to understand complex subjects such as math and…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Reading Comprehension, Reading Achievement, Models
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Küçük, Taner; Bayir, Eylem; Zorluoglu, Seraceddin Levent – Journal of Inquiry Based Activities, 2023
In this study, the effect of teaching based on the 5E instructional model on students' conceptual learning was investigated. The participants consisted of three inclusion students with mild mental disabilities who were studying in the sixth grade of a secondary school. A lesson plan based on the 5E teaching model was designed, focusing on the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Students with Disabilities, Mild Intellectual Disability, Instructional Effectiveness
Elizabeth A. Stevens; Christy S. Murray; Sarah Fishstrom; Sharon Vaughn – Grantee Submission, 2020
Students in the middle grades are expected to read complex texts to acquire content knowledge, particularly in social studies/history and science. Most students with disabilities are included in social studies/history and science classes and yet read below grade level, requiring significant support with accessing text knowledge. Question…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Middle School Students, Teaching Methods, Questioning Techniques
Tavarez DaCosta, Pedro; Herrera Gutierrez, Yerni – Online Submission, 2020
Universidad Tecnológica de Santiago (UTESA) is a university considered as one of the highest ranking universities in the Dominican Republic, it is one of the few to be recognized by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology as an autonomous university for its constant research and updating. This university offers to college students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Jee, Benjamin D.; Anggoro, Florencia K. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Models are central to the practice and teaching of science. Yet people often fail to grasp how scientific models explain their observations of the world. Realizing the explanatory power of a model may require aligning its relational structure to that of the observable phenomena. The present research tested whether "relational…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Children, Comprehension, Models
Taboada Barber, Ana; Klauda, Susan Lutz; Stapleton, Laura – Grantee Submission, 2020
Previous studies offer mixed evidence regarding whether a unified model of reading comprehension predictors applies to Dual Language Learners (DLLs) and English Speakers (ESs), or whether distinctive models across language groups are empirically supported. The present study adds another dimension to this body of work by examining multiple reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Bilingualism, Reading Motivation, Predictor Variables
Karanjakwut, Chalermsup – Online Submission, 2017
This academic article is aiming at creating a reading comprehension lesson with a new paradigm called the P3C2R+GIRD model developed by a 9-year-experience author in teaching English reading skill who always found that one of the problems of EFL students in learning English language is the lack of reading comprehension which is an important skill…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Schemata (Cognition), Phrase Structure
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Ardasheva, Yuliya; Newcomer, Sarah N.; Firestone, Jonah B.; Lamb, Richard L. – Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The authors investigated the mediating effects of general academic and science-specific vocabulary on science reading comprehension among English learners (ELs) of varied proficiency. The sample included 169 regular education Grade 7 students (86 current ELs; 83 former ELs) enrolled in 1 urban school in Pacific Northwest region of the United…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Scores
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Mokhtari, Kouider; Dimitrov, Dimiter M.; Reichard, Carla A. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
In this study, we revised the "Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies Inventory" (MARSI), a self-report instrument designed to assess students' awareness of reading strategies when reading school-related materials. We collected evidence of structural, generalizability, and external aspects of validity for the revised inventory…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Strategies, Measures (Individuals), Factor Analysis
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Wexler, Jade; Swanson, Elizabeth; Vaughn, Sharon; Shelton, Alexandra; Kurz, Leigh Ann – Middle School Journal, 2019
It is essential for middle school leaders to develop and promote school-wide literacy models, organizational structures that have a significant impact on the learning environment for all students in their building. However, school-wide literacy models can be difficult to implement and sustain over time. Drawing from an Office of Special Education…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Early Adolescents, Middle School Students, Educational Environment
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Tengberg, Michael; Olin-Scheller, Christina – Education Inquiry, 2013
This article investigates the potential for developing advanced reading and interpretative skills in Swedish secondary school. Over six weeks, four separate study groups in seventh grade participated in an intervention study. The purpose was to gather more knowledge about how different teaching strategies affect students' development of advanced…
Descriptors: Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction, Interpretive Skills, Comparative Analysis
Wilang, Jeffrey Dawala; Teo, Adisa – Online Submission, 2012
The predicted widespread use of English as a lingua franca following ASEAN's 2015 integration mushroomed intelligibility studies between and among Asean nationals including Bruneians, Burmese, Cambodians, Filipinos, Indonesians, Laotians, Malaysians, Singaporeans, Thais and Vietnamese. Previous studies regarding ASEAN nationals' intelligibility…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Official Languages, Pronunciation
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Chang, Ching; Chang, Chih-Kai – The EUROCALL Review, 2014
The study is based on the use of a flexible learning framework to help students improve information processes underlying strategy instruction in EFL listening. By exploiting the online videotext self-dictation-generation (video-SDG) learning activity implemented on the YouTube caption manager platform, the learning cycle was emphasized to promote…
Descriptors: Listening Skills, Skill Development, Metacognition, Video Technology
Carlisle, Joanne F.; Kelcey, Ben; Rowan, Brian; Phelps, Geoffrey – Online Submission, 2011
This study developed a new survey of teachers' knowledge about early reading and examined the effects of teachers' knowledge on students' reading achievement in Grades 1 to 3 in a large sample of Michigan schools. Using statistical models that controlled for teachers' personal and professional characteristics, students' prior reading achievement,…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Teaching Methods, Statistical Analysis, Reading Comprehension
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Bostrom, Robert N.; Waldhart, Enid S. – Communication Education, 1988
Noting weaknesses in "standard" methods of measuring listening skills, developes a five-factor model utilizing three different kinds of memory and adding tasks requiring interpretation and concentration. Varying subscales--with the exception of the interpretive task--are found to be sufficiently reliable for research purposes. (NH)
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Higher Education, Language Research, Learning Processes
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