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Ahmad S. Albeshri – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This naturalistic basic interpretive inquiry study investigated what individual and social meanings students constructed while engaging with paired picture books presented in two different languages: One in English and the other in Arabic. The research aimed to uncover how middle grade male students interpreted and comprehended the narratives and…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Arabic, English, Paired Associate Learning
Saulius, Tomas; Malinauskas, Romualdas K. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2019
The current paper addresses research question of how do students of one university (in our case study -- Lithuanian Sports University, LSU) experience the educational effect of introductory philosophy course. To answer this question, method of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) was employed. In accordance with this qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Philosophy, Student Experience
Sosa, Teresa – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2019
This paper highlights how the social world understandings of Rey, an 11th grade Latino student, supported his exploration into and insights of a short story. This work is grounded in the Cultural Modelling Framework. This framework provides students with the chance to acquire important comprehension strategies needed to interpret complex fiction…
Descriptors: High School Students, Hispanic American Students, Grade 11, Student Attitudes
Schmitz, Anke; Gräsel, Cornelia; Rothstein, Björn – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
This study raises the question what makes school texts comprehensible by analyzing whether students' genre expectations about literary or expository texts moderate the impact of different forms of text cohesion on reading comprehension, even when the texts are similar regarding their genre. 754 students (Grade 9) from comprehensive schools read…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Multiple Choice Tests, Connected Discourse
Aggleton, Jen – Children's Literature in Education, 2017
This article examines the effect of Jim Kay's illustrations on the experience of reading "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness. The author compares the responses of six Key Stage Three children (11-14 years old), three of whom were given an illustrated version of the text, and three a non-illustrated version. The children with an illustrated…
Descriptors: Illustrations, Early Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Reader Text Relationship
Now I "See": The Impact of Graphic Novels on Reading Comprehension in High School English Classrooms
Cook, Mike P. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2017
Few empirical studies have been conducted to investigate the educational uses of graphic novels. Because of this, misconceptions and stereotypes exist. This article presents findings from a study examining the effects of graphic novels on high school students' (N = 217) reading comprehension. A graphic adaptation of a traditionally taught text…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Novels, Reading Comprehension, High School Students
Thompson, Tara Lyn – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Across one school year, in which I coached a fourth-grade teacher, she and I took an inquiry stance investigating how we could come to understand the reading identities kids held relative to Stephens' (2013) list of characteristics of effective and efficient readers. We also sought to understand how we could help kids develop, sustain, or extend…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Academic Achievement, Reading Attitudes, Longitudinal Studies
Schellings, Gonny L. M.; Broekkamp, Hein – Metacognition and Learning, 2011
Self-regulated learning has been described as an adaptive process: students adapt their learning strategies for attaining different learning goals. In order to be adaptive, students must have a clear notion of what the task requirements consist of. Both trace data and questionnaire data indicate that students adapt study strategies in limited ways…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Protocol Analysis, Learning Strategies, Questionnaires
Fisher, Douglas; Frey, Nancy – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2014
Close reading is an instructional practice that has gained attention of late. It involves reading a complex text, annotation, and repeatedly reading to answer text-dependent questions. Although there are a number of recommendations for the use of close reading, there has not been a systematic analysis of student or teacher perceptions of this…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods, Reader Text Relationship, Questioning Techniques
Mason, Linda H.; Meadan, Hedda; Hedin, Laura R.; Cramer, Anne Mong – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2012
We conducted a mixed methods study to evaluate motivation among 20 fourth-grade students who struggle with reading and writing prior to and after receiving either self-regulated strategy development (SRSD) instruction for expository reading comprehension or SRSD instruction for expository reading comprehension plus informative writing. We…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Reading Difficulties, Reading Motivation
Epistemic Beliefs Underpinning Discourse within a Critical Literacy Intervention: A Multi-Case Study
Pennell, Colleen – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Reading is a complex act mediated by cognitive and sociocultural constructs that include classroom discourse and personal epistemology. This study explored the epistemic beliefs underpinning the discourse of four third-grade, male struggling readers and sought to understand how these beliefs unfolded during the critical-analytic reading…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Intervention, Epistemology, Student Attitudes
Tseng, Min-chen – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2010
When reading traditional texts printed on paper, students start reading from the top left-hand corner and finish at the bottom right-hand corner. Their eyes move in a straight line, which is a linear activity. However, when reading hypertexts, students can click a hyperlink to find out certain information. As they click the various hyperlinks,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Publishing, Reader Text Relationship, College Freshmen
Applegate, Anthony J.; Applegate, Mary DeKonty – Reading Teacher, 2010
This study examined the motivation to read of children in grades two through six. All children in the study were strong in their literal comprehension of narrative text. Some were equally strong in their ability to respond thoughtfully to the text (Blue Group); others struggled to respond to questions requiring them to think about the implications…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Thinking Skills, Age Differences, Reading Motivation
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
Vacca, Richard T. – Educational Leadership, 2006
Drawing on his "crisis of confidence" in reading academic texts as a graduate student, Vacca explains that self-efficacy--a belief in one's ability to succeed--provides the key to struggling readers' ability to comprehend texts outside their comfort zone. Self-efficacy and comprehension are interrelated. If students believe they have a good chance…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Reading Ability, Reading Comprehension, Reading Motivation
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