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Joshi, R. Malatesha; Ji, Xuejun Ryan; Breznitz, Zvia; Amiel, Meirav; Yulia, Astri – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2015
The Simple View of Reading (SVR) in Hebrew was tested by administering decoding, listening comprehension, and reading comprehension measures to 1,002 students from Grades 2 to 10 in the northern part of Israel. Results from hierarchical regression analyses supported the SVR in Hebrew with decoding and listening comprehension measures explaining…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Reading Tests
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Karen Nicholas; Faye Parkhill – Education 3-13, 2014
The Reading Recovery programme has been a key early literacy intervention in many international contexts for over two decades. As a consequence, there have been numerous investigations into its efficacy for short-term gains, but only a few on long-term sustainability. This study examines the progress of 95 Year 4-6 students from seven schools in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction
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Albdour, Waddah Mahmoud – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The study aims at identifying the difficulties affecting the student in the area of reading comprehension skill in English language curricula, measuring the differences in English language teachers' attitudes towards difficulties that seventh grade students face in reading comprehension skill for English language according to personal variables.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language)
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Pan, Ching-Ying; Wu, Hui-Yi – English Language Teaching, 2013
This experimental study aims to investigate the effects of using cooperative learning to enhance the English reading comprehension and learning motivation of EFL freshmen by comparing the cooperative learning instruction and traditional lecture instruction. This experiment was implemented in a Freshman English Reading course, a two credit course,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Alsamadani, Hashem Ahmed – English Language Teaching, 2011
This quasi-experimental study tested the effect of the 3-2-1 strategy on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' reading comprehension. A sample of Saudi EFL college-level students were randomly selected and divided into two groups: an experimental group (42 students) and a control group (43 students). Students of both groups took a reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1985
Designed to assist school jurisdictions in interpreting their achievement test results, this report describes the achievement testing program in Alberta, Canada, and indicates the conditions for student exemption from testing. It explains the Grade 3 English Language Arts Achievement Test design and development, gives a description of the test…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Foreign Countries, Grade 3