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Download full textAdam Weiss; Jonathan Williams; Brigette Whaley – English in Texas, 2024
The following article recommends Texas high school English teachers to select "All the Pretty Horses" (McCarthy, 1992), the critically acclaimed, best-selling novel by Cormac McCarthy, as a reading option for students. Set in rural Texas and Mexico, "All the Pretty Horses" provides an engaging reading experience that would…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Novels, Relevance (Education), Student Interests
Direct linkHerrera-Rivas, Hiram; Roque-Hernandez, Ramon Ventura; Hernandez-Almazan, Jorge-Arturo; Vazquez, Alberto Mora – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2023
This study explores the relationship among student college attainment and the variables mathematical thinking, analytical thinking, language structure, reading comprehension, mathematics result, physics result, written language (Spanish), and English as a foreign language. Method: The participants were 130 students enrolled in an undergraduate…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment, Student Characteristics
Silva-Maceda, Gabriela; Camarillo-Salazar, Blanca Flor – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2021
This experimental study aimed to influence reading comprehension skills through the development of one or both components of the Simple View of Reading (decoding and listening comprehension), by using a differentiated instruction approach. Reading comprehension skill gains were compared in an intervention group versus a control, after the delivery…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Achievement, Achievement Gains, Reading Instruction
Pratt, Amy S.; Grinstead, John A.; McCauley, Rebecca J. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: This exploratory study describes the emergent literacy skills of children with developmental language disorder (DLD) who speak Spanish, a language with a simple phonological structure and transparent orthography. We examine differences between children with DLD and their typically developing (TD) peers on a battery of emergent literacy…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Spanish Speaking, Monolingualism, Preschool Children
Iddings, Ana Christina DaSilva; Risko, Victoria J.; Rampulla, Maria Paula – Reading Teacher, 2009
This article addresses the question of how teachers can support English-language learners (ELLs) at emergent levels of English proficiency to be meaningfully included and engaged in text discussions. A microethnographic analysis was performed to closely examine patterns of interactions between a teacher (native speaker of English) and three…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Speech Communication, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
Moeller, Adeiline J., Ed.; Theiler, Janine, Ed.; Betta, Silvia, Ed. – Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2008
The 2008 Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, a joint conference with the Michigan World Language Association, focused on learning about the diverse backgrounds and needs of today's students and discovering new ways to help them succeed in reaching the goal of language proficiency. A wide variety of workshops and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, French
Vivaldo-Lima, Javier – 1997
This paper presents the results of a research study carried out with Mexican college students to analyze the relationship between readers' cognitive styles (field dependent/independent) and their performance at different levels of written discourse processing in Spanish (L1) and English (L2). The sample for the study included 452 undergraduate…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, English (Second Language), Field Dependence Independence, Foreign Countries
Labarca, Angela, Ed.; Bailey, Leslie M., Ed. – 1990
Papers from the symposium on applied linguistics include: "Roles in the Foreign Language Classroom" (Robert J. DiPietro); "The Importance of Native Language in Light of Second-Language Studies" (Alexander Z. Guiora); "A Model of L2 Text Reconstruction: The Recall of Literary Text by Learners of German" (Elizabeth B.…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Applied Linguistics, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
