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Sönmez, Yasemin; Sulak, Süleyman Erkam – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
The purpose of this study, which is designed in quasi-experimental model, is to examine the effect of the thinking aloud strategy on the reading comprehension skills of the 4th grade primary school students. For this purpose, in the second semester of 2016-2017 academic year, the reading comprehension levels of 26 students in the 4th grade at a…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction
Godfroid, Aline; Spino, Le Anne – Language Learning, 2015
This study extends previous reactivity research on the cognitive effects of think-alouds to include eye-tracking methodology. Unlike previous studies, we supplemented traditional superiority tests with equivalence tests, because only the latter are conceptually appropriate for demonstrating nonreactivity. Advanced learners of English read short…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Advanced Students
Alhawamdeh, Haifa Awwad – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
This study is an attempt to identify the impact of exploration and thinking loudly strategies on analytical reading and linguistic intelligence among second middle grade female students in Najran, Saudi Arabia. Semi-Experimental method was adopted to achieve study objectives. The sample consisted of (60) female students divided into three groups,…
Descriptors: Females, Foreign Countries, Linguistics, Reading Instruction
Jackson, Virginie – Current Issues in Education, 2016
This research was designed to investigate the effectiveness of using the think-aloud strategy to improve the reading comprehension in the content area of science. Based on state standards assessments, many early elementary grade students who were considered fluent readers struggled with evaluative science comprehension. In this quasi-experimental…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Science Instruction, Content Area Reading
Schira Hagerman, Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This dissertation study presents an instructional intervention called LINKS: Learning to Integrate InterNet Knowledge Strategically. It reports evidence of the intervention's impact on two variables: (a) ninth graders' use of ten online reading and integration strategies while engaged in dyadic online inquiry on science topics in school, and (b)…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Strategies, Pretests Posttests, Reading Comprehension
Cantrell, Susan Chambers; Almasi, Janice F.; Rintamaa, Margaret; Carter, Janis C.; Pennington, Jessica; Buckman, D. Matt – Journal of Educational Research, 2014
The authors examined the impact of a supplemental reading course on 462 sixth-grade students' reading engagement and performance as compared with 389 students in a control group. They further explored students' cognitive strategy use through think aloud processes with a subset of students who participated in the intervention.…
Descriptors: Intervention, Supplementary Education, Self Efficacy, Grade 6
Grenfell, Michael; Harris, Vee – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2015
This article seeks to develop the research agenda of multilingualism and multicompetence by bringing together three research fields and their related methodologies: bilingualism, third language acquisition and language learner strategies. After a brief introduction to each area, it describes a study to explore whether bilingual adolescent students…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Bilingual Students, Multilingualism, Adolescents
Nelson, Kathryn Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This study investigated the effects that critical literacy instruction had on comprehension in a seventh grade reading class. Numerous studies have examined critical literacy instruction in the classroom, as well as effective methods of comprehension instruction; however, few studies have combined these two lines of inquiry. Therefore, the purpose…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Grade 7
Fifth-Grade Readers' Use of Metacognitive Strategies to Comprehend Social Studies Nonnarrative Texts
Cesa, Caron Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Metacognitive strategies are needed for readers to be successful in comprehending nonnarrative social studies texts. The purpose of this study was to investigate the metacognitive strategies used by proficient readers (students reading above-grade-level) and struggling (students reading below-grade-level) readers comprehending social studies…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension
Gorjian, Bahman; Moosavinia, Seyyed Rahim; Jabripour, Azadeh – TESL-EJ, 2010
This study began with the supposition that teaching English drama through dramatic performance could enhance English literature students' knowledge of drama at university level. The research was conducted over a whole academic semester with 60 intermediate students enrolled in English drama II courses. They were divided into two groups of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Experimental Groups, Control Groups
Cantrell, Susan Chambers; Almasi, Janice F.; Carter, Janis C.; Rintamaa, Margaret; Madden, Angela – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
This study examines the impact of the Learning Strategies Curriculum (LSC), an adolescent reading intervention program, on 6th- and 9th-grade students' reading comprehension and strategy use. Using a randomized treatment-control group design, the study compared student outcomes for these constructs for 365 students who received daily instruction…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Learning Strategies
Yanguas, Inigo – Language Learning & Technology, 2009
The present study investigates the effects that different types of multimedia glosses, namely textual, pictorial, and textual + pictorial, have on text comprehension and vocabulary learning when the goal is exclusively comprehension of a computerized text. This study is based on the theoretical framework of attention, which maintains that…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Reading Comprehension, Protocol Analysis, Vocabulary
Leow, Ronald P.; Hsieh, Hui-Chen; Moreno, Nina – Language Learning, 2008
The present study revisited the issue of simultaneous attention to form and meaning from a methodological perspective that addressed several potential methodological issues of previous research in this strand of inquiry. Seventy-two second-semester-level participants were randomly assigned to one of five experimental groups, including a control,…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Reading Comprehension, Protocol Analysis, Multiple Choice Tests
Schmitter-Edgecombe, M.; Bales, J.W. – Brain and Language, 2005
A think-aloud method was used to examine the content of information available to working memory during narrative comprehension in a CHI population. Twenty severe CHI participants (>1 year post-injury) and 20 controls talked aloud after they read each sentence of story narratives. Trabasso and Magliano's (1996a) verbal protocol analysis was then…
Descriptors: Memory, Inferences, Control Groups, Protocol Analysis
Ghaith, Ghazi; Obeid, Hoda – Educational Research Quarterly, 2004
This study examines the effect of training in think alouds on literal and higher-order reading comprehension. Thirty-two (n = 32) eighth grade students of English as a foreign language (EFL) participated in the study. The participants were randomly assigned to control and experimental conditions. Descriptive statistics, correlation coefficients,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Multivariate Analysis, Correlation, Grade 8