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Marta Ndakalako Alumbungu; Nhlanhla Mpofu – Language and Education, 2025
Many studies addressing methods to improve reading comprehension in English Language Learners (ELLs) primarily focus on WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) samples. Unfortunately, ESL teachers in global South regions like Namibia have often been overlooked in this research. This study aims to bridge this gap by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Teachers
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Ntshikila, Nomonde; Condy, Janet L.; Meda, Lawrence; Phillips, Heather N. – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2022
Background: Research into language and reading scores show that South African learners struggle to read for meaning. Many local researchers report on the inadequate teaching training programmes. Teachers cannot teach basic comprehenion skills. Objectives: This research identifies a gap in the research and records an intervention programme designed…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Foreign Countries, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking
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Rosalyn G. Mirasol – Cogent Education, 2024
This paper explored the critical reading strategies and reading performance of junior high school (JHS) students enrolled in both public and private schools. 628 JHS answered the adapted survey questionnaire developed by Anderson and Krathwohl (2001) and a researcher-made reading test. The results revealed that JHS students had a high level of…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Achievement, Junior High School Students, Critical Reading
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Ocak, Gürbüz; Hocaoglu, Nilda – Elementary School Forum (Mimbar Sekolah Dasar), 2023
This study aims to determine the cognitive awareness of reading strategies of secondary school students, the relation between the cognitive awareness of reading strategies and writing anxiety, and the common effect of some variables on cognitive awareness of reading strategies. This quantitative study is an example of a relational survey model…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Writing (Composition), Anxiety, Secondary School Students
Michelle Jackson Greenberg – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Research supports the finding that middle school students prefer hands-on activities to reading and writing to learn new information. However, disciplinary literacy, the reading and writing in science class, is an integral part of inquiry-based science instruction and a necessary complement to hands-on instruction to build student understanding.…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Science Instruction, Learner Engagement, Scientific Literacy
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Deborah K. Reed – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2022
This conceptual paper addresses fluency instruction and assessment for students with or at risk for reading disabilities. Although a multidimensional construct, fluency tests more often have been limited to measuring students' reading rate and accuracy. The reasons for this are explained as well as how fluency tests have influenced classroom…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Instruction, At Risk Students, Reading Difficulties
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Moore, Brooke; Smith, Clara; Boardman, Alison; Ferrell, Amy – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2020
Adolescent students with learning disabilities across the United States are not demonstrating gains on reading assessments from previous years, and many are not even achieving at proficient literacy levels (Boulay et al., 2015). Despite their difficulties with reading proficiency, adolescents with learning disabilities are often enrolled in…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Video Technology, Reflection
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Chen, Xiaomeng; Liang, Lelin; Lu, Minghui – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2023
This study explored the effects of visual status and braille reading patterns on the reading accuracy of students with visual impairments in China. The sample consisted of 121 students aged 10-19 years: 48 were students with congenital visual impairments, 25 were students with adventitious visual impairments, and 48 were sighted students. Students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Braille, Visual Impairments, Blindness
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Wu, Lin; Valcke, Martin; Van Keer, Hilde – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Reading strategies have been documented as beneficial facilitators for readers to understand text; their potential efficacy, however, has not yet adequately assessed among struggling readers in the context of a large number of students below grade level at secondary schools internationally. Using a pretest-posttest control group experimental…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Chinese, Pretests Posttests
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Halim, Nadiah; Arif, Marina Mohd; Supramaniam, Kaarthiyainy – Asian Journal of University Education, 2020
Many students in Malaysia lack proficiency in the English language, from difficulty understanding the meaning of the text to inferring the text. The use of explicit instruction to introduce reading comprehension skills are also rarely employed in the classroom. This study investigated how metacognitive reading strategies and peer tutoring improved…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Metacognition, Reading Strategies
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Reyes, Cynthia C.; Bishop, Penny A. – Journal of Visual Literacy, 2019
Since middle school is a critical time for literacy learning in general and comprehension in particular, educators are left to ponder how best to teach these students. In addition, what role might student perception of reading strategies through visual depictions have in order to help teachers decide how best to guide their students with…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Early Adolescents, Visualization, Reading Strategies
Jasmine Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This qualitative exploratory case study focused on seventh and eighth grade teachers and a school principal's opinions and experiences to better understand why students' reading performances were failing in one public charter school in New Jersey and to provide solutions and recommendations for enhancing students' reading performance. Four…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Grade 8, Grade 7, Principals
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Ja'afar, Hasimah; Othman, Wan Mazlini; Kesevan, Hema Vanita; Budi, M. S. – Asian Journal of University Education, 2021
This study was carried out to investigate the effectiveness of using the Computer Assisted Repeated Reading (CARR) technique to enhance Form One rural students' oral reading fluency (ORF). The single subject experimental design (SSED) involved five students who participated in a 12-week study where CARR intervention was carried out twice a week.…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Reading Improvement, Reading Rate
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Johansson, Baran – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2022
Previous studies have found that phonological processing and vocabulary predict word reading. However, their predictive powers may vary according to reading experience and across scripts with different levels of transparency. In this study, the relationship between phonological processing, decoding, vocabulary and word reading was explored in two…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Swedish, Language Skills, Reading Skills
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Hassenfeld, Ziva R. – Journal of Jewish Education, 2019
This study set out to design and implement an approach to Tanakh education that would help students become expert decoders of the Biblical Hebrew text as they became expert interpreters of it. The goal, following existing, research-based best instructional practices from literacy, was to create a curriculum in which language skills and meaning…
Descriptors: Judaism, Biblical Literature, Semitic Languages, Language Skills
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