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Tzu-Hua Huang – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024
It is essential that students develop the skill of reading comprehension during their schooling, although it has been defined in various ways. The Programme for International Student Assessment indicates that a substantial proportion of students fail to develop sufficient reading skills during their schooling. While it is easy to understand the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Indigenous Populations, Reading Comprehension
Lide Yu; Lianghui Cai – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
The effectiveness of distance learning primarily depends on the motivation and engagement of students. The aim of this article is to determine whether the developed online course enhances students' motivation to read and their engagement with contemporary American literature. The methodology is based on an experimental design. A mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Distance Education, United States Literature
Iminza, Rose; Lysenko, Larysa; Wade, Anne; Abrami, Philip – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2022
This paper reports a case of implementing the free web-based interactive literacy software, ABRACADBRA, in early childhood education classes of Mombasa County, Kenya. A comprehensive model of training and support was offered to classroom teachers to help them integrate the software in preschool English Language instruction for three terms in 2019.…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Early Childhood Education
Sawasri, Pratin; Suwannathep, Suarsaraha; Intasena, Autthapon; Srimunta, Thussaneewan – Journal of Educational Issues, 2022
The purposes of the study were: (1) to study the effects of the 12PBL technique learning management on Grade 7 students' reading comprehension; and (2) to study students' satisfaction with learning in the 12PBL technique. The samples were 22 Grade 7 students in a school in Thailand selected by a purposive sampling method. The instruments were the…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement, Reading Ability
Chou, Mu-Hsuan – Educational Psychology, 2021
Reading ability has had a prominent role in English language education in Taiwan. The comprehension of materials and teacher instruction in English depends on students' English proficiency, and their achievement emotions regarding competence-related activities may influence how they read and complete tasks in English. This study aims to…
Descriptors: Reading Ability, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Zubaidah, Siti; Mahanal, Susriyati; Sholihah, Mar'atus; Rosyida, Fatia; Kurniawati, Zenia Lutfi – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2020
The main aim of this study was to investigate the effects of the Remap RT (Reading -- Concept Mapping -- Reciprocal Teaching) learning model on low-ability students' achievement in biology. This quasi-experimental research made use of a pre-test-post-test non-equivalent control group design. The population of this research was 125 tenth-grade…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Scientific Concepts, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Vibulpatanavong, Kanokporn; Evans, David – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
Phonological awareness has been found to be an important skill underpinning reading development in several alphabetic languages. However, the development of phonological awareness and its relationship to reading development can be influenced by the nature of the language under investigation. While understanding this relationship in Thai language…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Thai
Katemba, Caroline V.; Samuel – Acuity: Journal of English Language Pedagogy, Literature and Culture, 2017
This research is entitled "Effectiveness of Utilizing Jigsaw 1 towards Improving Students' Reading Comprehension Ability." Experimental design was used in this study. The participants of this study were two classes of grade 8 of junior high school in Parongpong, Bandung, Indonesia ; each class consisted of 32 participants in grade 8A as…
Descriptors: Reading Improvement, Reading Comprehension, Reading Ability, Teaching Methods
Muthivhi, Azwihangwisi E.; Kriger, Samantha – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2019
Background: This article reported on the developmental consequences of music instruction in Foundation Phase level of South African school context, specifically in relation to learners' learning and acquisition of early reading abilities. Against the background of the recent upsurge in research interest on the subject of conceptual and skills…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Transfer of Training, Music Education, Concept Formation
Mokodompit, Prisilia L.; Simanjuntak, Debora Chaterin – Acuity: Journal of English Language Pedagogy, Literature and Culture, 2016
This study attempts to find significance difference in enhancing students' reading comprehension ability by comparing two teaching methods: Numbered Heads Together (NHT) and Think-PairShare (TPS). In this study, the respondents were students of Grade VIII from SMP Advent II, Setia Budi and students of Grade VIII from SMPN 1, parongpong. After…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Ability, Comparative Analysis, Cooperative Learning
Janssen, Caressa; Segers, Eliane; McQueen, James M.; Verhoeven, Ludo – Early Education and Development, 2019
Research Findings: The present study compared effects of explicit instruction on and practice with the phonological form of words (form-focused instruction) versus explicit instruction on and practice with the meaning of words (meaning-focused instruction). Instruction was given via interactive storybook reading in the kindergarten classroom of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Phonological Awareness, Semantics, Vocabulary Development
He, Ping – English Language Teaching, 2018
Relevance Theory from the perspective of cognitive psychology argues that human communication is an ostensive-inferential process, and emphasizes the function of the optimal relevance for communication. In this sense, reading comprehension could be considered as a kind of communication in which the writer manifests his/her communication intention…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Kirsten, Nils – Education Inquiry, 2019
This study examined how teachers relate literacy teaching to their ordinary subject teaching in professional development settings. The study is conducted within the large Swedish professional development program the Literacy Boost (in Swedish "Läslyftet"), which can be viewed as an example of an international focus on reading ability…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Literacy Education, Faculty Development, Program Descriptions
Gibson, Howard; England, Jennifer – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2016
The paper highlights problems surrounding the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check that has accompanied the legislative framework for synthetic phonics in English primary schools. It investigates the inclusion of pseudowords and raises questions regarding their generation and categorization, the rationale for their inclusion and the assumption that the…
Descriptors: Phonics, Elementary School Students, Reading Skills, Screening Tests
Sasaki, Miyuki; Kozaki, Yoko; Ross, Steven J. – Modern Language Journal, 2017
This study explores the effects of various motivational variables operating within 44 English classes on 1-year-long gains in the English reading proficiency of 1,149 Japanese university students. The study adds new knowledge to the recent outcomes of second language (L2) motivational studies in 3 major ways. First, the explanatory variables…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods