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Mel Hall – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024
Applying sociological conceptualisations of temporality in the context of families, this article explores shared reading between parents and young children. The research draws on interviews with a sample of 29 parents/carers with pre-school children (predominantly mothers) from diverse backgrounds. Reading with young children provides an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emergent Literacy, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies
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Tiba, Chantyclaire – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2023
Background: Teachers are important role players in improving literacy; however, they lack the expertise to explicitly teach reading comprehension strategies. Studies have showed that when teachers are motivated to explicitly teach reading comprehension strategies in their classrooms, learners' comprehension is improved. Objective: The aim of the…
Descriptors: Direct Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Workshops
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Kate Cain; Nicola K. Currie; Gillian Francey; Robert Davies; Shelley Gray; Mindy S. Bridges; M. Adelaida Restrepo; Marilyn S. Thompson; Margeaux F. Ciraolo – Journal of Research in Reading, 2025
Background: We examined the influence of text and reader characteristics on sixth graders' inference generation. Methods: Eleven- to 12-year-old US monolingual English speakers (N = 71) and Spanish-English bilinguals (N = 81) read narrative and informational expository texts requiring an inference and answered an inference-tapping question after…
Descriptors: Reader Text Relationship, Student Characteristics, Grade 6, Inferences
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Shan Li; Xiaoshan Huang; Gaoxia Zhu; Hanxiang Du; Tianlong Zhong; Chenyu Hou; Juan Zheng – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: Social annotation has emerged as a promising educational technology that fosters collaborative reading and discussion of digital resources among learners. While the positive impact of social annotation on students' learning process and performance is widely acknowledged, students' behavioural patterns in social annotation are…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Cooperative Learning, Reading Strategies, Group Activities
Sarah St. John – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative phenomenological dissertation in practice explored teacher perspectives of the Texas Reading Academies required by the state of Texas. Students at an elementary school in Texas were performing below grade level expectations in reading. Although teachers were required to complete the Texas Reading Academies, based on the data…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Educational Legislation, Reading, State Legislation
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Gurjog Bagri; Sana Abrar – Cogent Education, 2024
Strategy instruction during reading can aid metacomprehension producing higher judgement of learning (JOL) and prediction of performance (POP). In contrast, verbal working memory (WM) limitations cause metacognitive deficits and lengthy expository texts impose greater cognitive load. However, impact of cognitive factors and reading lengthy…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reading Strategies, Short Term Memory, Reading Comprehension
Torrin R. Shimono – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2023
The effects of extensive, timed, and repeated oral reading on 101 lower-intermediate Japanese university L2 English learners' reading rates and comprehension were investigated over one academic year. The participants were divided into four quasiexperimental groups: (a) Group 1 did extensive, timed, and repeated oral reading with prosody and…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Oral Reading
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Umarji, Osman; Day, Stephanie; Xu, Ying; Zargar, Elham; Yu, Renzhe; Connor, Carol – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Third to fifth graders read an interactive choose-your-own adventure e-Book. User logs recorded their reading behaviors and were used to investigate students' in-the-moment reading behaviors. Reader's standards of coherence, motivation, and reading strategies were hypothesized to relate to children's reading behaviors, such as time reading pages,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Childrens Literature, Electronic Publishing, Books
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He, Qiwei; Borgonovi, Francesca; Suárez-Álvarez, Javier – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: Data-driven investigations of how students transit pages in digital reading tasks and how much time they spend on each transition allow mapping sequences of navigation behaviours into students' navigation reading strategies. Objectives: The purpose of this study is threefold: (1) to identify students' navigation patterns in…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Reading Processes, Task Analysis, Time on Task
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Kemiksiz, Ömer – International Technology and Education Journal, 2022
The study aims to investigate the attitudes of Turkish language teaching and primary education pre-service teachers towards digital reading in terms of various variables. The study was carried out in the relational survey model, one of the quantitative research methods. The sample of the study consisted of a total of 330 pre-service teachers, 230…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Second Language Instruction, Elementary Education, Preservice Teachers
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Koroglu, Mustafa; Balci, Ahmet – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2022
The aim of this study is to determine the practices of middle school 8th grade Turkish teachers towards comprehension (reading) teaching in the process of learning-teaching Turkish lessons and how long they allocate for these practices. The model of the research is the case study model, which is one of the qualitative research methods. The…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Turkish, Middle School Teachers, Language Teachers
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Gyllen, J.; Stahovich, T.; Mayer, R. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2018
Time on task has been recognized as an important variable in academic learning, but self-report measures of study time are problematic. Therefore, this study employs an automated system for recording time spent reading a course textbook. College students in an introductory engineering course accessed their textbook online. The book contained pages…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Electronic Learning, Electronic Publishing
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Shin, Hong Im; Wippich, Werner – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
This study examines whether rereading effects transfer across two different languages at the passage level. Fluent Korean-German bilinguals read passages twice either in the same language or a different language, and passages shared either words or situations. The dependent measure was the overall reading time for the second passage reading.…
Descriptors: German, Korean, Bilingualism, Reading Strategies
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McLean, Stuart – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2016
Stuart McLean refers in this commentary to Jeffrey Huffman's article "Reading Rate Gains during a One-Semester Extensive Reading Course" (v26 n2 p17-33 Oct 2014) [See: EJ1044344], in which Huffman reports that extensive reading (ER) was an effective way to provide large amounts of comprehensible input to foreign language learners, but…
Descriptors: Inferences, Evidence, Reading Strategies, Reading Achievement
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Wang, Zuowei; Sabatini, John; O'Reilly, Tenaha; Feng, Gary – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2017
Reading is affected by both situational requirements and one's cognitive skills. The current study investigated how individual differences interacted with task requirements to determine reading behavior and outcome. We recorded the eye movements of college students, who differed in reading efficiency, while they completed a multiple-choice (MC)…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Eye Movements, Reading Processes, Reading Tests
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