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A Reading Comprehension Program for Primary School Students
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Ertugrul Çam; Muhammet Bastug – Reading Psychology, 2025
The aim of this study is to examine the effect of the reading comprehension program prepared for primary school fourth grade students on students' reading comprehension skills. In this context, students' attitudes toward reading, reading motivation, fluent reading skills and reading comprehension strategies were considered in the study. The…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Programs, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Psycho-Linguistic Model of Reading Strategies Awareness in EFL Contexts
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Ghahari, Shima; Basanjideh, Mahin – Reading Psychology, 2017
With the advent of learner-centered approaches to language learning and life skills education paradigm in psychology, language classrooms are conceived a fitting educational setting for life skills intervention. This study investigated reading strategies awareness, as a legacy of humanistic psychology and learner-centered movement, of language…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Reading Tests
L2 Reading Strategies Used by Iranian EFL Learners: A Think-Aloud Study
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Ghavamnia, Maedeh; Ketabi, Saeed; Tavakoli, Mansoor – Reading Psychology, 2013
This study investigated the differences in the type and frequency of strategy use by four proficient and four less-proficient readers. Thirty female senior undergraduates majoring in TEFL at a university in Iran were given a reading comprehension test. Based on the results of their reading test, eight were chosen based on a nonrandom purposive…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Classification
Teacher Language Scaffolds the Development of Independent Strategic Reading Activities and Metacognitive Awareness in Emergent Readers
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Lee, Polly A.; Schmitt, Maribeth Cassidy – Reading Psychology, 2014
This study investigated the influence of teacher language related to a specific network of strategies for problem solving, self-monitoring, and self-correcting on (a) the development and use of independent strategic activities and (b) metacognitive awareness variables in emergent readers. Descriptive analyses of 120 individual lessons conducted…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Instruction, Metacognition, Oral Reading
Improving Reading Performance for Economically Disadvantaged Students: Combining Strategy Instruction and Motivational Support
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Ng, Chi-Hung Clarence; Bartlett, Brendan; Chester, Ivan; Kersland, Susan – Reading Psychology, 2013
Seventy-six fifth-year students from low-socioeconomic status backgrounds participated in three different instructional conditions in an intervention study. The first combined strategy training in top-level structuring and interrelated motivational support; the second implemented the strategy training only; and the third was a control condition…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Literacy
Word Reading Efficiency, Text Reading Fluency, and Reading Comprehension among Chinese Learners of English
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Jiang, Xiangying; Sawaki, Yasuyo; Sabatini, John – Reading Psychology, 2012
This study examined the relationship among word reading efficiency, text reading fluency, and reading comprehension for adult English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. Data from 185 adult Chinese EFL learners preparing to take the Test-of-English-as-a-Foreign-Language[TM] (TOEFL[R]) were analyzed in this study. The participants completed a…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Chinese, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)