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Potocki, Anna; Ros, Christine; Vibert, Nicolas; Rouet, Jean-François – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2017
This study examines children's strategies when scanning a document to answer a specific question. More specifically, we wanted to know whether they make use of organizers (i.e., headings) when searching and whether strategic search is related to their knowledge of reading strategies. Twenty-six French fifth graders were asked to search single-page…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Eye Movements, Text Structure, Information Processing
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Saint-Aubin, Jean; Roy-Charland, Annie – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2012
Participants performed a letter detection task on a self-generated and on an unfamiliar text to address two questions: Will letter processing differ for self-generated and unfamiliar texts? Is the missing-letter effect immune from text familiarity? The 36 participants were asked to write an essay and then to read it along with an unfamiliar text…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Reading Strategies, Task Analysis, Textbooks
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Bradley, Linda, Ed.; Thouësny, Sylvie, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2012
For the first time, the annual conference of the European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL) took place in Sweden. The conference took place at the Faculty of Education on historic ground on the old fortification walls of Carolus Dux from the 17th century right in the centre of the city. This year's host comprised the…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Moore, Daniele – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2006
This contribution documents the strategies bi/plurilingual children spontaneously develop when confronted with a task that demands comprehension of texts in a third language. To illustrate these strategies in context, the paper draws from classroom interaction excerpts: small groups of children (ages 8-10) discover meaning in a text in a language…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Multilingualism, Mandarin Chinese, Learning Strategies