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Hendratno; Nurul Istiq’faroh; Fajar Nur Yasin; Amiruddin Hadi Wibowo; Abd. Ghofur – International Journal of Language Education, 2025
This study aims to determine the effectiveness of Fry readability-based digital storybooks on reading comprehension skills among elementary school students. The method used in this study was an experimental research design with a pretest-posttest control group design to measure students' reading comprehension skills. The sample of this study was…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Story Reading, Reading Comprehension, Benchmarking
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Yukino Kimura – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2022
This study examined the effects of relevance instructions on English as a foreign language (EFL) readers' text processing and memories. The participants were randomly assigned to one of two conditions: the experimental condition, where they read texts to identify a specific category of information, and the control condition, where they read texts…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Journal of Reading, 1980
Five contributors separately discuss (1) a formula for describing the anticipatory process in reading; (2) a combined reading, writing, and comprehension exercise that proved popular with rehabilitation students; (3) an adult education project involving reports on recreational reading; (4) limitations of the Fry Readability Graph; and (5) a method…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Expectation, Foreign Countries
Chapman, L. John – 1986
To develop a new model of the reading process, a longitudinal study investigated the importance of the concepts of cohesion and register (fiction or nonfiction) in the assessment of text readability. Subjects, 436 8-year-olds (Cohort A), 474 10-year-olds (Cohort B), and 445 13-year-olds (Cohort C) from 23 urban and rural British schools--most of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cohesion (Written Composition), Elementary Secondary Education, Fiction