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Cappello, Marva; Walker, Nancy T. – Reading Teacher, 2016
The authors offer a new perspective on close reading that uses a range of multimodal texts to capitalize on the visual nature of contemporary society and to support literacy within the academic disciplines. Specifically, a qualitative study explored teachers' perspectives on the use of Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS), a practice borrowed from…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Visualization, Visual Aids, Thinking Skills
Moirand, Sophie – Francais dans le Monde, 1978
A printed text can be considered a picture on which readers project their own image in order to understand its original meaning. This process is explained via several kinds of original documents. Implications for instruction in reading a foreign language are discussed and several examples are given. (Text is in French.) (AMH)
Descriptors: French, Higher Education, Language Instruction, Reading Instruction
Moore, Phillip J.; Scevak, Jill J. – 1988
To determine whether high school students can be trained to use maps more effectively, a study examined linkage of feature and event information, the role of individual differences, and the roles of reading ability and preference for dealing with visual information. Subjects were 31 16- to 17-year-old high school students. Experimental and control…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, High Schools, Individual Differences