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Sabzehparvar, Alireza – Online Submission, 2021
This research investigated the relationship between reading maturity, reading strategy use, and gender with Iranian EFL undergraduates' reading comprehension. The results revealed that the most preferred strategies were cognitive in nature. Moreover, the Iranian EFL undergraduates were intellectually enriched by most of what they read and enjoy…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hatcher, Peter – Journal of Research in Reading, 2000
Rates 200 Reading Recovery books on five variables thought to represent "semantic,""syntactic," and "phonic" features of text. Finds the variables accounted for 83% of book level variance. Supports the validity of the Reading Recovery book levels. Suggests that the formula can be used by teachers to grade children's…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Predictor Variables, Primary Education, Reading Material Selection
Hollingsworth, Sandra – 1983
To determine the factors accounting for children's growth in decoding skill, a study examined school entering characteristics--age, sex, ethnicity, and developmental abilities--and school-influenced skills and characteristics--phonemic awareness, letter-name knowledge, basal text, and place in series--of approximately 100 grade one students.…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Age, Decoding (Reading), Grade 1