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James Joshua Coleman – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
In the 21st century, the term "critical" has attached itself to numerous aspects of literacy research. However, what critical means remains commonly anchored to Freire and a primary critical reading practice--suspicious critique. Expanding critical literacy research (CLR), this article advances "reading orientations" as a…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Phenomenology, Reading Instruction, Literacy
Temur, Turan; Sezer, Taner – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2023
Reading is one of the main skills to be learned and used in schools and through the entire life of an individual. Its crucial importance made reading one of the central topics in different academic disciplines such as education, psychology, linguistic and neuroscience. Advances in multidisciplinary approaches to and studies of reading gave us the…
Descriptors: Reading Teachers, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, Computational Linguistics
Cordeiro, Carolina; Nunes, Andreia; Castro, São Luís; Limpo, Teresa – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2021
Reading comprehension is an important skill throughout all stages of education. However, Portuguese pupils still demonstrate difficulties in understanding what they read. In addition to cognitive and psychological factors, it is important to understand how this skill is addressed in textbooks. Here, we examined how reading comprehension is…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Middle School Students, Difficulty Level, Textbooks
Stürmer, Verena – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2019
The ban on almost all previously approved textbooks in occupied Germany in 1945 brought about a turning point in the history of reading primers in this country. This article examines the requirements that textbooks had to fulfill in order to be approved by the authorities of the various occupation zones. In spite of differing sociopolitical and…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Teaching Methods, Social Systems, Foreign Countries
Koloti, Arone C.; Jita, Thuthukile – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2021
Background: Over the years, the majority of the Basotho nation and many countries have known Lesotho as a country which has Sesotho and English as the only spoken languages and as medium of instruction in schools. Whereas, in reality, Lesotho has many spoken languages. Many tribes have their own spoken languages which, hitherto, have not been…
Descriptors: Native Language Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, Prereading Experience, African Languages
Pramoolsook, Issra; Dalimunte, Ahmad Amin – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
The great importance of textbooks in the English language in the academic, pedagogic, and scientific world is uncontested. Acquiring holistic knowledge of legal transdisciplinary is of great importance to Islamic law students in Indonesia. Nevertheless, English reading proficiency of Indonesian students is problematic. The present research was to…
Descriptors: Law Students, Law Schools, Interdisciplinary Approach, Islam
Magnusson, Camilla G.; Roe, Astrid; Blikstad-Balas, Marte – Reading Research Quarterly, 2019
The authors examined naturally occurring reading comprehension strategies instruction (RCSI) across four consecutive lessons in 47 Norwegian language arts classrooms at the lower secondary level via video observations (n = 178). Although numerous studies have examined the effectiveness of RCSI for improving reading outcomes, few studies have…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Video Technology, Language Arts
Kartal, Erdogan – European Journal of Educational Research, 2018
In this work, we have analyzed the opinions of teacher candidates of French as a foreign language on the method that should be used in the teaching of reading-comprehension, one of the main linguistic skills. At the end of the Fall Semester of the 2011-2012 academic year, a survey constituted of three open-ended questions was carried out among…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, French
Mohebbi, Ahmadreza; Rahimi, Elaheh – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2019
The present study attempts to investigate Persian cultural conceptualizations (hereinafter CCs in the text) placed in the reading passages of the English textbooks published by one of the most prominent publishers in Iran. Employing the principles of critical literacy, together with the investigative framework of Cultural Linguistics, content…
Descriptors: Native Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Pennington, Sarah E. – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2017
Early adolescence is a critical time for examining academic motivation, specifically motivation to read. To support self-determined motivation to read, students' needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness must be met within the classroom context. Because classroom instructional practices are a key component of adolescents' daily experiences…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Preadolescents, Adolescent Attitudes, Early Adolescents
Aytan, Talat – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2018
The fact that the prospective Turkish teachers' having a command of different methods and techniques as being Turkish teachers of the future is important in terms of its positive effects on the comprehension and expression skills of the middle school students. This study used the case study design and the qualitative approach. The aim of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Case Studies
Skibbe, Lori E.; Gerde, Hope K.; Wright, Tanya S.; Samples-Steele, Chelsea R. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2016
Commonly used early childhood curricula were examined to consider the degree to which they support research-based instruction for phonological awareness (PA) and phonics. A content analysis was completed for two types of curricula widely used in Head Start: overarching general curricula and lesson-based curricula, which usually provide more…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Phonics, Special Needs Students, Early Childhood Education
Wright, Tanya S.; Peltier, Marliese R. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2016
The goal of this study was to examine the extent to which the content and recommendations in recently published early language and literacy methods textbooks may support early childhood teachers in learning to provide vocabulary instruction for young children. We completed a content analysis of 9 textbooks with coding at the sentence level.…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Reading Instruction, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten
Roth, Daniel – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2017
Although vocabulary instruction is a pressing need for postsecondary reading instructors, a minimal amount of current postsecondary scholarship addresses this need, and almost no current scholarship addresses the textbook tradition of morphemic analysis (MA). The present article reviews the literature on MA instruction and argues for teaching MA…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Developmental Studies Programs, Reading Instruction, Textbooks
Lin, Lu-Fang – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2018
This study incorporated the problem-based learning (PBL) approach into a web-based English reading course. The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of PBL on the participants' English reading comprehension (RC) and to explore the participants' perceptions of PBL. The present study conducted a comparison of two teaching methods. Two…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Problem Based Learning, Web Based Instruction, English (Second Language)