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Chen, Chih-Ming; Chen, Liang-Chun; Horng, Wei-Jiun – Interactive Learning Environments, 2021
The collaborative reading annotation system (CRAS) has been proved its success in promoting reading performance in comparison with traditional paper-based reading. However, there is still lack of an effective formative assessment and feedback mechanisms in the CRAS, which can assist learners to promote their self-regulated learning and reflection.…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Documentation, Reading Comprehension, Formative Evaluation
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Chen, Po-Hsuan – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2019
The present study aimed at exploring the joint effects of reading motivation and reading anxiety on English reading comprehension in the Taiwanese English as a foreign language (EFL) context. To this end, a total of 140 (26 males, 114 females) EFL freshmen from required General English I courses at a university in southern Taiwan satisfactorily…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Motivation, Anxiety, Reading Comprehension
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Lin, Yu-Cheng; Lin, Pei-Ying – Journal of Experimental Education, 2017
There are no salient word spaces in Mandarin Chinese. Thus, it is unclear whether word spacing information differentially affects the reading speed of children with and without reading difficulties (RD). In the present study, native Chinese-speaking children of differential reading abilities were tested with Chinese text in un-spaced versus spaced…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Reading Ability, Layout (Publications), Reading Difficulties
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Tsai, Yea-Ru; Ouyang, Chen-Sen; Chang, Yukon – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2016
The purpose of this study is to propose a diagnostic approach to identify engineering students' English reading comprehension errors. Student data were collected during the process of reading texts of English for science and technology on a web-based cumulative sentence analysis system. For the analysis, the association-rule, data mining technique…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, English (Second Language), Reading Comprehension, Language Proficiency
Martin, Michael O., Ed.; Mullis, Ina V. S., Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2013
TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) is an international assessment of mathematics and science at the fourth and eighth grades that has been conducted every four years since 1995, with the most recent assessment in 2011. PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) is an international assessment of reading…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement, Grade 4
Hsu, Chen-chin – 1987
Drawing on a cross-national study of children's reading, a study examined the correlates of reading success and failure in Taiwan. Subjects, 240 randomly selected Taipei fifth graders, were administered a reading test, cognitive test, and mathematics achievement test. A structured interview with each child's mother and classroom behavior…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Elementary Education, Family Influence, Foreign Countries
Tzung-yu, Cheng – 1993
Taiwanese college students have significant difficulty in reading technical texts in English. Based on information gathered from students in freshman English classes in Taiwan, and on previous research, three significant areas of student confusion are: (1) frequent use of prepositions, particularly when an English preposition with multiple…
Descriptors: Chinese, College Freshmen, English for Academic Purposes, English for Special Purposes