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Mehrdad Yousefpoori-Naeim; Surina He; Ying Cui; Maria Cutumisu – International Review of Education, 2024
In addition to pre- and in-service teacher education programmes, teachers' autonomous reading of content related to their work contributes significantly to their professional development. This study investigated the factors that influenced the professional reading of 10,469 language teachers in the 2018 dataset of the Programme for International…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Predictor Variables, Reading Habits, Teacher Background
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Swanson, H. Lee; Orosco, Michael J.; Kudo, Milagros Fatima – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2017
This study investigated the relationship between elementary classroom (N = 50) reading activities in Year 1 and reading performance (i.e., passage comprehension, letter-word identification, and word attack) 1 year later for English language learners (ELLs; N = 270). A cross-classification hierarchical model indicated that compared to other reading…
Descriptors: Reading Assignments, English Language Learners, Reading Achievement, Predictor Variables
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Rydland, Veslemoy; Aukrust, Vibeke Grover; Fulland, Helene – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
This study examined the contribution of word decoding, first-language (L1) and second-language (L2) vocabulary and prior topic knowledge to L2 reading comprehension. For measuring reading comprehension we employed two different reading tasks: Woodcock Passage Comprehension and a researcher-developed content-area reading assignment (the Global…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Reading Comprehension, Second Languages
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Collins, Kathleen M. T.; Onwuegbuzie, Anthony J.; Jiao, Qun G. – Reading Psychology, 2008
The present study examined the relationship between reading ability (i.e., reading comprehension and reading vocabulary) and academic procrastination among 120 African American graduate students. A canonical correlation analysis revealed statistically significant and practically significant multivariate relationships between these two reading…
Descriptors: Research Papers (Students), Reading Assignments, Graduate Students, Reading Comprehension