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Ha, Hyorim; Lee, Hee Seung – Metacognition and Learning, 2023
For successful learning, students need to evaluate their learning status relative to their learning goals and regulate their study in response to such monitoring. The present study investigated whether making metacognitive judgments on previously studied text would enhance the learning of that studied (backward effect) and newly studied text…
Descriptors: Inferences, Memory, Metacognition, Evaluative Thinking
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Sulistyawati, Elizabeth Emmanuela; Nugroho, Alvian Adhi; Bram, Barli – Journal of English Teaching, 2021
Several studies have shown that morphological awareness contributes to the improvement of the comprehension of student reading and vocabulary learning, interest in the importance of language acquisition, and instruction of morphological awareness is increasing. This research emphasizes the use of morphological techniques used in reading…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Morphology (Languages), Vocabulary Development, Metalinguistics
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Ryherd, Kayleigh; Landi, Nicole – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2019
Poor comprehenders (PCs) are characterized by poor reading comprehension despite intact decoding and general cognitive ability. Poor word meaning knowledge is one of the earliest deficits associated with a PC profile. We examined processes underpinning word learning in PCs using a category learning paradigm. Adolescent participants (20 typically…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Learning Problems, Classification, Adolescents
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Sakale, Sana; Ayoub, Zrari – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2022
This study attempts to unveil the Concomitance of vocabulary learning strategies with learning styles in fostering reflection among university students during reading comprehension texts. For this purpose, data is collected employing a primary data source in the form of a structured close-ended questionnaire, which is addressed, respectively, to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students
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Reid, Alan J.; Morrison, Gary R.; Bol, Linda – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2017
This paper presents results from an experimental study that examined embedded strategy prompts in digital text and their effects on calibration and metacomprehension accuracies. A sample population of 80 college undergraduates read a digital expository text on the basics of photography. The most robust treatment (mixed) read the text, generated a…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Comprehension, Learning Processes, Accuracy
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Leopold, Claudia; Doerner, Marcel; Leutner, Detlev; Dutke, Stephan – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2015
In two experiments, we compared effects of instructions that encourage learners to create referential connections between words and pictures with instructions that distract learners from creating referential connections. In Experiment 1, students read a scientific text under four conditions. In the text-picture condition, students read the…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies, Educational Experiments
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Kane, Sandy; Lear, Miriam; Dube, Cecilia Maxine – Africa Education Review, 2014
This article represents a literature review and interpretation pertaining to the role that metacognition is seen to play in student performance. It begins by providing evidence from research reported in the literature which indicates that not all students are able to accurately assess their capabilities, and suggests that this lack is linked to…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Processes, Learning Processes, Higher Education
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Davoudi, Mohammad; Sadeghi, Narges Amel – English Language Teaching, 2015
Given the significance of questioning as a high-level cognitive strategy in language teaching and learning in the literature on TEFL as well as in education in general, this study sought to make a systematic review of research studies conducted in the span of the last three decades on the issue of questioning across different disciplines with a…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Learning Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Abbasian, Gholam-Reza; Hartoonian, Anahid – English Language Teaching, 2014
Self-regulated learning strategies have recently received a remarkable attention by researchers. The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between self-regulated learning strategies and students' language proficiency as well as their reading comprehension. To do so, 115 Iranian EFL university students were selected. First, a TOEFL test…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Correlation, Learning Processes, Reading Comprehension
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Young, Mark R. – Journal of Marketing Education, 2016
The responsibility for knowledge acquisition is increasingly being shifted to students though the utilization of experiential learning, teamwork, online, and flipped classroom pedagogies. Students are expected to enter the classroom prepared to engage in thoughtful knowledge application activities; however, many students have not adequately…
Descriptors: Readiness, Testing, Study Skills, Learning Strategies
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Makinina, Olga – TESL Canada Journal, 2017
Currently there is a general uncertainty about what makes collocations (i.e., fixed word combinations with specific, not easily interpreted relations between their components) hard for ESL learners to master, and about how to improve collocation recognition and learning process. This study explored and designed a comparative classification of…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Recognition (Psychology), Pretests Posttests, Reading Comprehension
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Södervik, Ilona; Mikkilä-Erdmann, Mirjamaija; Vilppu, Henna – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2014
The purpose of this study was to investigate elementary school pre-service teachers' understanding of photosynthesis and to examine if a refutational text can support understanding of photosynthesis better than a non-refutational text. A total of 91 elementary school pre-service teachers read either a refutational or a non-refutational text…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers
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Holtzheuser, Sierra; McNamara, John – Exceptionality Education International, 2014
Reading is conceptualized as a hierarchy of component skills where lower order emergent literacy skills set the foundation for higher order reading skills such as fluency and comprehension. Approximately 20% of readers struggle within this hierarchical process (Fielding, Kerr, & Rosier, 2007). Struggling readers are susceptible to the Matthew…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction, Emergent Literacy, Reading Skills
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Davis, Dennis S. – Theory Into Practice, 2011
Many studies of comprehension strategies instruction rely on an internalization metaphor of strategy learning. In this view, strategies eventually enter students' heads after repeated interactions with teachers who introduce strategies and control how they are used. In this article, the author discusses the limitations of the internalization view…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Figurative Language, Cognitive Style, Grade 5
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Bernacki, Matthew L.; Byrnes, James P.; Cromley, Jennifer G. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2012
Studies examining students' achievement goals, cognitive engagement strategies and performance have found that achievement goals tend to predict classes of cognitive strategy use which predict performance on measures of learning. These studies have led to deeper theoretical understanding, but their reliance on self-report data limit the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Notetaking, Student Motivation, Academic Achievement
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