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Blikstad-Balas, Marte; Klette, Kirsti; Roe, Astrid – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
The present study investigates the use of authentic texts (fiction and non-fiction) in 180 video-recorded language arts lessons across 46 secondary classrooms in Norway. It assesses how the texts are used and what kind of language arts-related activities and discourses students are engaging in. The study finds that a majority of the lessons do not…
Descriptors: Authentic Learning, Textbooks, Reader Text Relationship, Learning Activities
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Baird, Adela; Laugharne, Janet; Maagerø, Eva; Tønnessen, Elise Seip – Children's Literature in Education, 2016
Children as readers of picture books and the ways they respond to, and make meaning from, such texts are the focus of this article, which reports on a small-scale study undertaken in Norway and Wales, UK. The theoretical framing of the research draws on concepts of the multimodal ensemble in picture books and of the reading event as part of a…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Emergent Literacy, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes
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Braten, Ivar; Stromso, Helge I.; Samuelstuen, Marit S. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2008
In a sample of 135 Norwegian education undergraduates, we examined the effects of topic-specific epistemic beliefs concerning the simplicity and source of knowledge on deep-level understanding of multiple expository texts about the same topic--climate change. The results showed that students holding sophisticated simplicity beliefs, viewing…
Descriptors: Climate, Epistemology, Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students