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Gurses, Meral Ozkan; Adiguzel, Oktay Cem – Journal of Education and Learning, 2013
This study investigates the effects of reading strategies instruction based on the Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach over students' skill to comprehend what they read in French and their use of reading strategies. It has an action research design. Eighteen students studying at French Preparatory Program at Eskisehir Osmangazi…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Teaching Methods, Reading Comprehension, Reading Achievement
Flower, Linda – 1989
This study is the 10th in a series of reports from the Reading-to-Write Project, a collaborative study designed to examine the cognitive processes of college freshmen in the act of entering a university-level academic discourse community and to present a model of that transition. Subjects, 17 freshmen (of a total of 72 participating either as…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Critical Reading, Freshman Composition, Higher Education
Peck, Wayne C. – 1989
This study is the seventh in a series of reports from the Reading-to-Write Project, a collaborative study of students' cognitive processes at one critical point of entry into academic performance. This part of the study examines whether students could make more significant revisions in their writing if they were merely prompted to examine and…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Critical Reading, Freshman Composition, Higher Education
Mulvaney, Mary Kay – 1993
Peer tutoring sessions involving two eighth-grade girls were recorded and analyzed through a Vygotskian lens. A "microgenetic analysis" of particular protocol excerpts from the tutoring sessions was conducted. When a lapse of intersubjectivity existed, participants frequently launched into narrative as a mediating device to negotiate a…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, American Indian Culture, Grade 8, Higher Education
McCormick, Kathleen – 1989
This study is the ninth in a series of reports from the Reading-to-Write Project, a collaborative study of students' cognitive processes at one critical point of entry into academic performance. This report focuses on ways in which broadly-based cultural and institutional factors silently influence students' reading and writing behaviors.…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Case Studies, Critical Reading, Cultural Context
Stein, Victoria – 1989
This study is the fifth in a series of reports from the Reading-to-Write Project, a collaborative study of students' cognitive processes at one critical point of entry into academic performance. This part of the study examines the ways in which college students interpret and negotiate an assignment that calls for reading to write. Subjects, 17…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Audience Awareness, Case Studies, Cognitive Processes