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Download full textBonitatibus, Gary; Beal, Carole R. – 1992
Four studies investigated when children became able to detect that the words of a story could support multiple interpretations. Each subject saw two eight-sentence stories of each of four types (no-cause, unbiased, biased-proximal, and biased-distal), designed to support multiple interpretations. After reading or hearing each story, the children…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students, Grade 2
Wang, Chuming; Qi, Luxia – 1991
An empirical study is reported that investigated the relationship between first language (L1) and English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) reading in terms of efficiency, speed, and comprehension with Chinese university students of English as subjects. Results indicate that reading speed transfers readily from L1 to EFL readers for those who are slow…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Erwin, Barbara – 1992
A study addressed the relationship of culturally related schema to comprehension and examined the effect of instruction using thematic units upon the development of background knowledge. Subjects were 25 pupils (aged 8 to 10 years) enrolled in a primary school in Scotland and 21 students enrolled in a 3rd-grade class in Texas. Subjects listened to…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Background, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
Spivey, Frances Jane – 1992
A study compared the effectiveness of computer-assisted reading instruction to that of a direct teaching model. Nineteen adult male inmates from Windham School System's Ellis II Unit (located in Texas) special education classrooms served as subjects. The subjects were divided into two groups each of which spent one hour a day on reading. One group…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction
Baker, Isabel; Mulcahy-Ernt, Patricia – 1992
A study investigated whether expressive writing facilitated abstraction in language use, thereby improving reading comprehension. Ninety students enrolled in four required basic skills reading courses at a suburban community college in New Jersey were divided into a control and an experimental group. Students in the experimental group wrote…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, College Students, Expressive Language, Higher Education
Mississippi Materials & Resource Center, Gulfport. – 1986
This curriculum guide, designed for use with secondary migrant students, contains activities in the reading areas of structural analysis, literal comprehension, inferential comprehension, vocabulary, and reading in the content areas. Within these four broad areas, activities are presented in the following specific skill areas: (1) hearing…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Curriculum Guides, Functional Reading, Learning Activities
Weintraub, Sam, Ed. – 1992
This annotated bibliography summarizes approximately 600 reports of reading research identified between July 1, 1990, and June 30, 1991. The research studies described in the book are categorized into six areas: (1) summaries of reading research; (2) teacher preparation and practice; (3) sociology of reading; (4) physiology and psychology of…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Reading Attitudes
Johnson, Scott D.; Satchwell, Richard E. – 1992
A quasiexperimental study involved 18 male students enrolled in an aircraft systems course at the University of Illinois. The control group of 10 students studied 39 schematic diagrams of aircraft systems. The treatment group of eight students studied the same schematic diagrams plus conceptual diagrams of the systems. Otherwise, the instruction…
Descriptors: Aviation Education, Cognitive Structures, Comprehension, Diagrams
Leung, Kei Wai; Maciejewski, Anthony A. – 1990
The Nihongo tutorial system is an intelligent tutorial system designed to use a computer to assist scientists and engineers in developing reading competence in technical Japanese. It consists of three applications: the Nihongo Tutor, which provides useful information about an article (translation, syntax, pronunciation) to help understand the text…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Japanese, Languages for Special Purposes, Programing
Hagen, Anastasia S.; And Others – 1992
This study, fourth in a series examining factors related to involvement in academic tasks, considers the ways in which cognitive, affective, and motivational variables associated with involvement change over various phases of completing an actual academic task (studying for a final examination). The phases of studying were: (1) just about to begin…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Comprehension, Educational Objectives
Pelz, Ruth; Clarke, Mallory – 1991
This document contains a curriculum guide for teachers and a companion reading guide for adult literacy students reading at the fourth- to sixth-grade level. The curriculum guide contains three chapters: Work, Families, and Housing. The guide takes student interest as a starting point and asks students to stretch comprehension, perception, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Curriculum Guides, Experiential Learning
Frances, Shannon M.; Eckart, Joyce A. – 1992
An action research project investigated the effect of reciprocal teaching instruction and use on the comprehension of seventh-grade general English students. Reciprocal teaching is a form of dialogue structured around four skills--question generation, summarization, clarification, and prediction. These techniques are used in small group…
Descriptors: Action Research, Discussion (Teaching Technique), English Instruction, Grade 7
Nagy, William E.; And Others – 1992
A study investigated how Hispanic bilingual students' knowledge of Spanish vocabulary and awareness of Spanish-English cognates influence comprehension of English expository text. The subjects, 74 upper elementary school students literate in both Spanish and English, were tested for vocabulary knowledge in both languages. After reading four…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Turner, Thomas N. – 1993
A program to improve sixth through eighth grade underachieving students' reading comprehension was developed. Students were identified by comparing their anticipated and actual national percentile scores on the Test of Cognitive Skills (TCS) and the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills (CTBS). A survey of students' reading behavior, a review of…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Reading Achievement
Morrow, Lesley Mandel; And Others – 1994
The purpose of this study was to determine if first-, second-, and third-grade science textbooks integrate strategies to enhance literacy development in their texts, thereby reflecting an integrated language-arts perspective. Five sets of popular first-, second-, and third-grade science textbooks with 1990 and 1991 copyright dates were analyzed.…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Content Analysis, Elementary School Science, Integrated Activities
