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Reynolds, Barry Lee – Reading Research Quarterly, 2015
Adult English-L1 (n = 20) and English-L2 (n = 32) experimental groups were given a novel containing nonce words to read within two weeks to investigate whether the reading of fiction can induce a state of incidental vocabulary acquisition. After reading, an unexpected meaning recall translation assessment measuring acquisition of 49 target nonce…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition
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Bartolomeo-Maida, Maria – College Student Journal, 2016
Across disciplines, faculty members face a common challenge of finding methods to get their students to complete assigned course readings. It becomes an even larger task to develop strategies whereby students are also engaging in deep reading that promotes critical thinking. Reading positively impacts students on a number of variables, and when…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Psychology, Community Colleges, Two Year Colleges
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Plakans, Lia; Gebril, Atta – Assessing Writing, 2012
An increasing number of writing programs and assessments are employing writing-from-sources tasks in which reading and writing are integrated. The integration of reading and writing in such contexts raises a number of questions with regard to writers' use of sources in their writing, the functions these sources serve, and how proficiency affects…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Protocol Analysis, Writing Skills, Reading
Blewitt, Angela – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This mixed-methods study explored the characteristics of a reading program at a South Central Los Angeles charter school, as well as explored the relationship between motivational and affective factors on the Student Approaches to Learning (SAL) instrument and students' reading lexile scores. Data were collected through student questionnaire…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Science Education, Science Instruction