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Direct linkReese Butterfuss; Kathryn S. McCarthy; Ellen Orcutt; Panayiota Kendeou; Danielle S. McNamara – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
Readers often struggle to identify the main ideas in expository texts. Existing research and instruction provide some guidance on how to encourage readers to identify main ideas. However, there is substantial variability in how main ideas are operationalized and how readers are prompted to identify main ideas. This variability hinders…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Best Practices
Download full textAghajari, Zhila; Unal, Deniz Sonmez; Unal, Mesut Erhan; Gómez, Ligia; Walker, Erin – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2020
Response time has been used as an important predictor of student performance in various models. Much of this work is based on the hypothesis that if students respond to a problem step too quickly or too slowly, they are most likely to be unsuccessful in that step. However, something that is less explored is that students may cycle through…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Predictor Variables, Reading Comprehension, Task Analysis
Reese Butterfuss; Kathryn S. McCarthy; Ellen Orcutt; Panayiota Kendeou; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2023
Readers often struggle to identify the main ideas in expository texts. Existing research and instruction provide some guidance on how to encourage readers to identify main ideas. However, there is substantial variability in how main ideas are operationalized and how readers are prompted to identify main ideas. This variability hinders…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Best Practices
Wang, Zuowei; O'Reilly, Tenaha; Sabatini, John; McCarthy, Kathryn S.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2021
We compared high school students' performance in a traditional comprehension assessment requiring them to identify key information and draw inferences from single texts, and a scenario-based assessment (SBA) requiring them to integrate, evaluate and apply information across multiple sources. Both assessments focused on a non-academic topic.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, High School Students, Inferences, Reading Tests
Ke, Sihui – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2022
This research compared the contributions of lexical inferencing, decoding, and listening comprehension to reading comprehension in Chinese-speaking learners of English as a second language (ESL) enrolled in university bridging programs in the U.S. and Chinese-speaking university learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) in mainland China.…
Descriptors: Chinese, Native Language, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language)
Samian, Hosein Vafadar; Foo, Thomas Chow Voon; Mohebbi, Hassan – English Language Teaching, 2016
This paper reports the findings of a study that investigated the effect of giving and receiving marginal L1 glosses on L2 vocabulary learning. To that end, forty nine Iranian learners of English were assigned to three different experimental conditions including marginal L1 glosses Giver (n = 17), marginal L1 glosses Receiver (n = 17), and no…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Pretests Posttests
