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Direct linkMuthita Chinpakdee; Peter Yongqi Gu – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This article reports findings from a larger research project which aimed to promote learner autonomy among Thai secondary school learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) through strategy-based instruction (SBI). The study involved 30 learners from an intervention class and 32 learners from a comparison class. Nine strategies were introduced…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Download full textAl-Qahtani, Abdulaziz Ali – English Language Teaching, 2020
The current study's objective examines the effectiveness of using a Think-Aloud strategy in improving Saudi EFL learners' reading comprehension and attitudes towards learning. A quantitative study with a quasi-experimental design was implemented through applying two different instruments: Reading Comprehension Skills Test and Attitude Scale…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Grindle, Corinna; Kurzeja, Olivia; Tyler, Emily; Saville, Maria; Hughes, J. Carl; Hastings, Richard P.; Brown, Freddy Jackson – Journal of International Special Needs Education, 2020
Children with autism often exhibit difficulties with reading comprehension. Recent studies have demonstrated positive outcomes for typical learners from the internet-based reading comprehension program, Headsprout Reading Comprehensiont. In the present study, a preliminary evaluation of HRC was conducted with six children with autism. The primary…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Li, Hongli; Suen, Hoi K. – Language Testing, 2013
Differential skill functioning (DSF) exists when examinees from different groups have different probabilities of successful performance in a certain subskill underlying the measured construct, given that they have the same ability on the overall construct. Using a DSF approach, this study examined the differences between two native language…
Descriptors: Native Language, Differences, Reading Skills, Reading Tests
Nelson, Kathryn Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This study investigated the effects that critical literacy instruction had on comprehension in a seventh grade reading class. Numerous studies have examined critical literacy instruction in the classroom, as well as effective methods of comprehension instruction; however, few studies have combined these two lines of inquiry. Therefore, the purpose…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Grade 7
Young, Chase – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2014
This study investigates how reading ability and personality traits predict the quality of verbal discussions in peer-led literature circles. Third grade literature discussions were recorded, transcribed, and coded. The coded statements and questions were quantified into a quality of engagement score. Through multiple linear regression, the…
Descriptors: Literature Appreciation, Discussion Groups, Predictor Variables, Grade 3
