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Peer reviewedJiao, Qun G.; Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J. – Library Review, 2003
Examined the relationship between reading comprehension, reading vocabulary, and five dimensions of library anxiety: barriers with staff, affective barriers, comfort with the library, knowledge of the library, and mechanical barriers. Participants were 45 African American graduate students from various disciplines who were given the Library…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedClayton, Victoria; Nordstrom, Virginia – Education Libraries, 1987
This annotated bibliography of works on semantic mapping includes texts, which instruct in the use of mapping, and articles that provide examples of its use in curriculum planning, reading comprehension, and vocabulary/concept development. (CLB)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Content Area Reading, Higher Education, Library Instruction
Peer reviewedJournal of Reading, 1983
Contributors suggest ways to (1) phrase reading for second-language learners, (2) improve comprehension through creative mapping, (3) improve student "browsing" skills in a library, and (4) help students overcome writer's block. (FL)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Activities, Library Role, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedRusso, Neusa Goncalves – The ESPecialist, 1987
Describes a Brazilian university's first semester English for Special Purposes class for library science students. An outline of guidelines is presented for designing instructional materials for a second semester library science course focusing on the application of text comprehension skills, learned during the first semester, to summarizing and…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Critical Reading, English for Special Purposes, Foreign Countries
