The current study investigated the relation and comparison of reading comprehension and reading rate in Japanese high school EFL learners. One hundred and forty-eight tenth-graders in a Japanese high school participated in this study. Results showed that the relation between reading comprehension and reading rate was weak, but significant (r =…

Demonstrates some of the important factors that should be considered in research into the teaching techniques used with schizophrenic twins. (RB)

Concludes that letter-sound learning, word recognition, and reading ability do not appear to be affected by letter-name instruction. (RB)

Concludes that it is possible to determine the strategies that beginning readers use for translating print into speech, and translation strategies are influenced significantly by the class instruction. (RB)

Teacher characteristics and student variables go together to constitute a reading instructional program. (Author/MLF)

Examines research evidence that suggests an association between impulsivity and poor reading performance; outlines methods that have been helpful in training children to respond less impulsively, to take more time, and to make fewer mistakes so that ultimately they may become better readers. (Author/GT)

The purpose of this study was to design and test a remedial reading instructional strategy for word recognition skills utilizing specific intersensory transfer components. The subjects were 56 high school sophomores and juniors enrolled in special education classes. Eight subjects were randomly selected from each of seven special education…

The author attempts to develop a theory of learning to account for complex human learning using early reading as an example. (HMD)

Rejects the belief that teaching music reading affects the teaching of language reading. Article is a further extension of the research provided by Ruth Zinar on the connection between the two (EJ 147 534). (Editor/RK)

Various strategies for improving student reading abilities in the social studies are examined. (DE)

The purposes of this study were to determine which test instruments should be used to report instructional and independent reading levels to tutors or classroom teachers and what recommendations should be made concerning the materials to be used for teaching the child. The subjects were children from grades two through ten who had been identified…

This study involved the use of interspersed questions as an instructional procedure to aid improvement in reading efficiency. Subjects, 86 college students enrolled in an undergraduate course in methods for teaching secondary reading, practiced (five times) reading nonfiction narrative selections, trying to increase their reading speed. The…

Teacher verbal behaviors following oral reading errors of primary grade children were the focus of this study. The incidence, location, and type of verbal interruption behaviors that occured during classroom reading instruction were contrasted for high-and low-ability readers. Results for 20 teachers indicated that they were more likely to…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between field articulation and reading achievement at the end of grade one, and to investigate the effect on the pupil's reading achievement of the field articulation of the classroom teacher. The sample of pupils was drawn from eight first grade classrooms of female teachers. The…

The purpose of this study was to compare the reading ability of university freshmen in two remedial track courses with the readability of the assigned texts and in light of the instructional methodology employed by the instructional staff of two courses. The investigations findings seemed to suggest that the reading ability of the students in the…