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Direct linkTsai, Aurora – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2017
Reading research has recognized the strong relationship between vocabulary and reading comprehension. However, we are still perplexed by the precise nature of how readers access and retrieve word meanings while reading. We have not reached a consensus on "what it means to know a word" (e.g., Anderson & Nagy, 1991; Nation, 2001) or…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Reading Comprehension, Knowledge Level, Second Language Learning
Download full textLiang, Xiaoping; Smith, Sara W. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2012
The present research analyzes instructional strategies used to integrate the learning of content and English as a foreign language in a bilingual physics class at a university in Shanghai, China. It examines how the instructor handles meaning and form of new English science vocabulary in concept-focused physics lectures and the strategies he used…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction, Physics
Thompson, Loren C.; Frager, Alan M. – 1984
Planned, individualized vocabulary instruction is an essential ingredient of developmental reading classes, and deserves special attention, since expanding word knowledge is the one area related to reading comprehension in which student progress can be directly observed and measured by the learner in daily or weekly increments. The two factors…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Individualized Reading, Prior Learning, Reading Comprehension
McNeil, John D. – 1984
Intended for use in undergraduate and graduate courses in reading methods, as well as by classroom teachers, this book brings together teaching strategies and materials suggested by recent developments in the study of reading comprehension. Each of the eight chapters includes the background and rationale for the practices described. The first…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Learning Theories, Metacognition
Cooper, J. David – 1993
Reflecting dramatic changes in educators' understanding of literacy, this book, a revision of an earlier text published in 1986 under the title, "Improving Reading Comprehension," provides support for preservice and inservice teachers in learning to help children develop literacy effectively. The central feature of the book is a literacy program…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Higher Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1985
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 5 titles deal with the following topics: (1) the influence of background knowledge on non-native students' memory for reading passages, (2) the development of a reading textbook with a teacher's manual for English as a second…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Biculturalism, Bidialectalism, Bilingualism
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers
