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Jones, Sally Ann – Education 3-13, 2011
In this article, I report on a small project involving the use of guided reading groups, levelled texts and running records in a multilingual primary school in Singapore. I focus on running records and ask whether their use is suitable pedagogically and practically for the Singaporean context. The analysis of 22 records of primary one and primary…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Multilingualism, Reading Strategies, Foreign Countries
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Wong, Mei Yin; Underwood, Geoffrey – Journal of Research in Reading, 1996
Investigates whether 11-year-old children in Singapore, from English Dominant or English Non-Dominant backgrounds, read better orally when words were presented in list or text. Finds that readers with less exposure to English relied more on contextual information than more experienced readers, and that reading miscues varied according to whether…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Comparative Analysis, Error Analysis (Language), Family Environment