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Lundberg, Ingvar; Reichenberg, Monica – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2013
The present study demonstrated that students with mild intellectual disabilities are capable of constructing meaning from written text by guided social interaction. Participants were 40 adolescents in special schools divided into two intervention conditions: reciprocal teaching (RT) and inference teaching (IT). In RT the students practiced four…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mild Mental Retardation, Reading Instruction, Reading
Allison, Tamara Alice – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Due to variation that exists in providing Tier 2 reading intervention instruction, the purpose of the study was to identify processes and instructional strategies currently being utilized by K-2 teachers of the Gallup, New Mexico elementary schools. 17 teachers from 9 of the 10 elementary schools participated in the study. A survey instrument was…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Fischer, Ute – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1994
Investigated the independent and interactive effects of contextual and definitional information on vocabulary learning. German students of English received either a text with unfamiliar English words or their monolingual English dictionary entries. A third group received both. Information about word context is crucial to understanding meaning. (44…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Control Groups, Data Analysis, Definitions
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Ooi, Diana; Kim-Seoh, Julia Lee – ELT Journal, 1996
Discusses findings on the lexical competence of students who are not native-speakers of English but who have been through an education system in which that language is the medium of instruction. The data indicate the existence of a problem related to use rather than to inadequate knowledge of word-meaning. Traditional criteria for item selection…
Descriptors: College Students, Data Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Sherk, John K.; Mocker, Donald W. – 1972
A national study of methods and materials used in teaching reading by adult education teachers was conducted. The purposes of the study were: to determine from ABE, GED, and ESL teachers the most popular methods, materials, and techniques currently in use for reading instruction in adult education; to determine the "goodness of fit" between the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Data Analysis, Goodness of Fit, Instructional Materials
Parmer, Lavada Jacumin; Thames, Dana G.; Kazelskis, Richard – 1997
A study examined the effectiveness of an integrated language arts instructional format for teaching reading compared with the effectiveness of the typical traditional reading program. The study investigated the effectiveness of approaches that are representative of both viewpoints of the reading process (i.e., word recognition and the construction…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Instructional Effectiveness, Integrated Activities, Intermediate Grades
Diederich, Paul B. – 1973
This bulletin summarizes and interprets some of the main findings of "Survey of the Literature on Methods and Materials in Reading," by Martha J. Maxwell and George Temp, Chapter IV of "The Information Base for Reading: A Critical Review of the Information Base for Current Assumptions Regarding the Status of Instruction and Achievement in Reading…
Descriptors: Initial Teaching Alphabet, Phonics, Reading Achievement, Reading Development