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Levine, Sarah; Horton, William – Cognition and Instruction, 2015
This study explored whether a month-long instructional intervention in affective evaluation can help struggling high school readers to engage in literary interpretation in ways similar to expert readers' practices. We compared pre- and post-intervention think-aloud protocols from five high school students as they read a literary short story with…
Descriptors: High School Students, Literary Genres, Reading Skills, Intervention
Majid, Faizah Abdul; Azman, Norzaini; Jelas, Zalizan Mohd – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2010
This article reports on a study that examined the choice and use of academic reading strategies of adult learners who were identified as proficient and less proficient readers. The major objective was to explore the potential influence of their adult characteristics on their use of their academic reading strategies. Data were gathered using…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Protocol Analysis, Reading Strategies, Adult Learning