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Download full textDurán Bautista, Diana Carolina; Rendón Marulanda, Mario Alberto – English Language Teaching, 2018
This action research study focuses on measuring the impact of a Free Voluntary Reading Program on students' active vocabulary use and self-direction in language learning in two different programs of English as a foreign language. The impetus for this research came from close observation and a needs analysis that confirmed students' reluctant…
Descriptors: Action Research, Vocabulary Development, Positive Attitudes, Second Language Learning
Direct linkBridges, Amanda Worley – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The Foundations of Reading course and the Direct Instruction reading program Corrective Reading are components of literacy instruction designed to meet the needs of struggling adolescent readers. An evaluation of the program's effectiveness within the district has not been conducted, and the impact on student achievement was unknown. The purpose…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Programs, Direct Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
Kiefer, Cynthia – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This mixed methods study examines 126 community college students enrolled in developmental reading courses at a mid-sized Southwestern community college. These students participated in a survey-based study regarding their reading experiences and practices, social influence upon those practices, reading sponsorship, and reading self-efficacy. The…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Developmental Studies Programs, Reading Programs
Whittingham, Jeff; Huffman, Stephanie; Christensen, Rob; McAllister, Tracy – School Library Research, 2013
A study was conducted to determine the impact of the use of audiobooks with struggling readers in a school library audiobook club. The participants met weekly in the school library with the school librarian and researchers to discuss audiobooks and make reading recommendations to their peers. Standardized test data as well as pre- and post-study…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Library Research, Audio Books, Student Participation
Huang, SuHua – Reading Horizons, 2012
The mixed-method explanatory research design was employed to investigate the effectiveness of the Accelerated Reader (AR) program on middle school students' reading achievement and motivation. A total of 211 sixth to eighth-grade students provided quantitative data by completing an AR Survey. Thirty of the 211 students were randomly selected to…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Acceleration (Education), Program Effectiveness, Middle School Students
Blewitt, Angela – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This mixed-methods study explored the characteristics of a reading program at a South Central Los Angeles charter school, as well as explored the relationship between motivational and affective factors on the Student Approaches to Learning (SAL) instrument and students' reading lexile scores. Data were collected through student questionnaire…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Science Education, Science Instruction
