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McArthur, Kerry G. – Reading Horizons, 2012
Concerns about adolescent literacy continue to be highlighted in regards to the challenges of reading and learning from academic text. Recent efforts to address these concerns have led to an examination of the disciplines and their specialized ways of thinking and using language. In this article I discusses a metalinguistic protocol in a…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Literacy, Teaching Methods, Reading
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Gurses, Meral Ozkan; Adiguzel, Oktay Cem – Journal of Education and Learning, 2013
This study investigates the effects of reading strategies instruction based on the Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach over students' skill to comprehend what they read in French and their use of reading strategies. It has an action research design. Eighteen students studying at French Preparatory Program at Eskisehir Osmangazi…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Teaching Methods, Reading Comprehension, Reading Achievement
Fadlelmula, Fatma Kayan; Ozgeldi, Meric – Online Submission, 2010
The purpose of this study is to examine how a learner self-regulates learning while reading an academic text. In particular, the aim is not to generalize self-regulatory processes for any learning task, but to have an overall idea about how a learner self-regulates. In particular, Pintrich's SRL (self-regulated learning) model is used to find out…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Interviews, Graduate Study, Higher Education
Cheng, Chin-kuei – 1999
This paper reports the results of a think-aloud study that investigated the comprehension processes of 10 Chinese English as a Second Language college students as they read texts in English. All participants were asked to read two English passages and think aloud as they read them. After reading each passage, the students answered 20…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Braten, Ivar; Stromso, Helge I. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2003
Examines the strategies spontaneously used by Norwegian university law students as they tried to understand multiple expository texts as part of their normal reading and studying. Finds that students' strategic processing changed over time, with some of the changes associated with changes in students' perception of the nature of the reading task.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Law Students, Longitudinal Studies
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Stromso, Helge I.; Braten, Ivar – Reading Research Quarterly, 2002
Analyzes think-aloud protocols generated during reading to locate sources referred to when students made links reaching beyond what they read. Finds proportion of links to sources located within the text decreased and proportion of links outside the context increased over time. Notes students who increased use of sources located outside the task…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Metacognition, Protocol Analysis
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Maria, Katherine; Hathaway, Katheryn – Journal of Reading, 1993
Describes an activity (the first assignment in a graduate reading course for teachers) which provides teachers with the opportunity to develop awareness of their own reading processes by thinking aloud about the strategies they use when reading texts that are difficult for them. (SR)
Descriptors: Assignments, Higher Education, Protocol Analysis, Reading Comprehension
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Upton, Thomas A. – TESL-EJ, 1997
Little research has been conducted to determine what roles the first and second languages play in the reading strategies of L2 readers or how these roles vary at different proficiency levels. this study attempts to address these two issues. Eleven active speakers of Japanese, at two proficiency levels, were asked to think aloud--in the language of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Higher Education, Japanese, Language Usage
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Nist, Sherrie L.; Kirby, Kate – Reading Research and Instruction, 1986
Focuses on three ideas pertaining to modeling and thinking aloud, presents examples of how the processes can be applied to teaching both text comprehension and study strategies to college developmental readers, and discusses reasons for using modeling and thinking aloud in the classroom. (FL)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Modeling (Psychology), Protocol Analysis, Reading Comprehension
He, Tung-hsien – English Teacher: An International Journal, 2002
Investigated reading strategies used by 38 Taiwanese English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) college students who worked on an English expository essay that described a familiar cultural event. Results of think-aloud protocols are discussed. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Essays, Higher Education
Winser, Bill – Australian Journal of Reading, 1988
Examines the strategies readers engage in by analyzing their self reporting responses during and after reading a passage. Argues that teachers should instruct children to be aware of the nature and effectiveness of their own reading strategies. (RAE)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Kamhi-Stein, Lia D. – TESOL Quarterly, 2003
Reports results of research investigating the reading strategies of four nonnative speakers of English who were considered underprepared for academic study at a U.S. university. Through analysis of think-aloud protocols, questionnaire data, and indicators of comprehension, identifies strategies learners use in their native language (Spanish) and…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Attitudes
Flower, Linda – 1989
This study is the 10th in a series of reports from the Reading-to-Write Project, a collaborative study designed to examine the cognitive processes of college freshmen in the act of entering a university-level academic discourse community and to present a model of that transition. Subjects, 17 freshmen (of a total of 72 participating either as…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Critical Reading, Freshman Composition, Higher Education
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He, Tung-Hsien – TESL-EJ, 2001
Investigates the influence of goal orientations on strategy use patterns and reading comprehension of adult English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) readers. Thirty-eight Taiwanese EFL college freshmen were randomly selected and assigned into the mastery-oriented and the combined mastery- and performance-oriented groups. Results indicated that two…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Educational Objectives, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Roberts, David D. – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 1989
Investigates readers' response patterns to informative documents. Finds that readers make direct confirmations and positive comprehension evaluations when information is conveyed clearly; when understanding is impaired, readers seek more clearly established relationships in the text. Concludes that readers make evaluative suggestions that…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Protocol Analysis, Reader Response
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