Describes a study that explored the relationship between performance of a schematic concept formation task (SCF) and reading performance in students of English as a second language. Above average readers had significantly higher SCF ranks than below average readers. Offers suggestions for future research with SCF tasks. (SED)

Discusses a model of the reading process drawn from ideas used in foreign language instruction and resting on the distinction between reading acquisition and reading learning. Explains how the model can be applied in the classroom. (FL)

Examines the traditional criteria for evaluating first and second language reading texts. Proposes that, if reading is interaction between a text and a reader, variables related to the reader's side of the process, global textual properties, content characteristics, and rhetorical and discourse features should be considered before linguistic…

Describes a study which examined changes in students' revising strategies after they used a set of self-posed questions to guide their evaluation of texts. Hypothesizes that students who refer to question-prompts would revise more than students who used only a word processing program. Analyzes the number, types, and meaningfulness of revisions.…

This study compared and evaluated three alternative theoretical models of the reading-writing relationship. Reading dimensions included word analysis, vocabulary, and sentence comprehension components; writing dimensions included spelling, vocabulary, sentence structure, and story organization components. Models differed in sequential orderings of…

Focuses on (1) the disparities between reading and writing instructional methodologies, (2) the misconceptions students seem to draw if these disparities are not brought to their attention, and (3) the recursive relationship between written and oral language. Contrasts the relationships between main ideas and details in reading processes with…

Examines what teachers do when they read texts in particular genres, and suggests how to encourage similar behavior in students. (CRH)

Provides an overview of the recent changes in the theoretical conception of memory and language comprehension and how these are influencing reading research, assessment, and teaching. (FL)

Chadly Fitouri describes his experiments in Tunisia in which he used audiovisual methods (slides, music, storytelling) to become involved in literature and immersed in two cultures. (HOD)

Argues that an understanding of the psycholinguistics of the reading process can provide a foundation for instructional decision making in secondary and college reading classes. Discusses factors affecting reading comprehension. Provides exercises to help students use prior knowledge about the nature of language to overcome reading difficulties.…

Concludes that not only does context facilitate the ascertainment of word meaning, but that it does so for poor readers and good ones alike. (FL)

Two studies of children learning to read (one before the introduction of phonics instruction, the other while phonics instruction was being given) found that error-target similarity increased with reading attainment. This suggests that while reading aloud, considerable knowledge of spelling develops independently of explicit use of phonics. (CMG)

Uses findings from story grammar research to create guidelines to help students in writing book reports and describes applications of the guidelines as they were used in a second and a fifth grade classroom. (FL)

Advanced organizers produced two distinct effects--subsumption of related material and abstraction of incidental concepts. (RB)