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Affect Theory in Reading Research: Imagining the Radical Difference
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Boldt, Gail; Leander, Kevin M. – Reading Psychology, 2020
Working through four key tenets of Deleuze-Guattarian theory, the authors describe how contemporary affect theory offers a radically different perspective on reading. Asking how we can conceptualize reading differently if we conceptualize affect differently, we argue that possible meanings of reading or experiences of reading must be considered…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Educational Theories, Affective Behavior, Reading Processes
Avoiding Left-to-Right, Top-to-Bottom: An Examination of High School Students' Executive Functioning Skills and Strategies for Reading Non-Linear Graphic Text
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Matheson, Ian A.; MacCormack, Jeffrey – Reading Psychology, 2020
The present study focused on examining how individuals make adaptations while reading non-linear graphic text by examining the role of executive functioning, as well as identifying and describing the reading processes individuals use while reading. Sixty-seven students in Grades 9 through 12 engaged in verbal reporting while reading graphic text,…
Descriptors: High School Students, Adolescents, Public Schools, Executive Function
Exploring Factors Related to Young Children's Word-Meaning Derivations during Read-Alouds
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Christ, Tanya; Wang, X. Christine; Chiu, Ming Ming – Reading Psychology, 2017
This study explores how child and text clues were related to 31 kindergarteners' word-meaning derivation outcomes for 372 words presented in books read aloud to children. Data were analyzed using a multilevel, cross-classification, ordered logit model. Children showed no word-meaning derivation 40% of the time, indicating a need for instruction.…
Descriptors: Semantics, Young Children, Reading Aloud to Others, Kindergarten
Responding to Literature: Learning to Read Like a Literary Critic (Research into Practice).
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Beach, Sara Ann, Ed. – Reading Psychology, 1997
Looks at reading as a transaction between the reader, the text, and the reading situation that leads to the construction of meaning that is particular to that reading. Describes L. Rosenblatt's ideas about reading stances, efferent and aesthetic. Discusses instructional implications of aiding children in their creation of individual meanings in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship
Reading Strategies or Comprehension Monitoring Strategies?
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Yang, Yu-Fen – Reading Psychology, 2006
In order to probe the relationship between reading strategies and comprehension monitoring strategies and how they function to help readers in comprehension process, the present study utilizes think-aloud and retrospective verbal reports to examine 20 EFL readers' performances in reading texts. The results reveal that the engagement of reading…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Reading Teachers, Reading Processes, Reading Strategies
Problem-Solving Schemata for Text Types: A Comparison of Narrative and Expository Text Structures.
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Mulcahy, Patricia I.; Samuels, S. Jay – Reading Psychology, 1987
Argues that comprehension is a problem-solving activity and that different problem-solving schemata exist for different types of texts, both narrative and expository. Suggests that good comprehension occurs when there is a match between the author's schemata and that of the reader, creating a dialogue between the writer and the reader. (JK)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Context Clues, Descriptive Writing, Expository Writing