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Chinese International Students' Cognitive Processes and Experiences with Online Non-Academic Reading and Writing in the United States
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Wang, Fang – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2020
Second language reading and writing scholarship has primarily focused on conventional papermediated academic texts (Hirvela, 2016; Plakans, 2009b). As innovative technologies have emerged, students must be proficient in new literacies that take place on the Internet and other information communication technologies (RAND Reading Study Group, 2002).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Electronic Publishing, Reading
Reading Power: Teaching Students to Think While They Read, Second Edition. Revised and Expanded
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Gear, Adrienne – Stenhouse Publishers, 2015
Since "Reading Power" was launched ten years ago in an elementary school in Vancouver, it has evolved into a recognized approach to comprehension instruction being implemented across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and China. This groundbreaking approach shows teachers how to help students think while they…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Programs, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods
Effective Teaching Factors and Student Reading Strategies as Predictors of Student Achievement in PISA 2009: The Case of China and the United States
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Meng, Lingqi; Muñoz, Marco; King Hess, Kristin; Liu, Shujie – Educational Review, 2017
This study investigated effective teaching factors and student reading strategies as predictors of student reading achievement in the United States and China. Participants were 10,348 students in the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) study, 5115 from China and 5233 from the United States. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA)…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests
The Developmental Nature of Meta-Cognition and the Relationship between Knowledge and Control over Time
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Schmitt, Maribeth Cassidy; Sha, Shuying – Journal of Research in Reading, 2009
This study explored the development of meta-cognitive knowledge and control, the relationship between the two constructs, the types of strategy knowledge Chinese students consider valuable and comparisons with US children's knowledge of strategies at the third-grade level. One hundred and twenty students were randomly sampled from third-, fifth-…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Chinese, Grade 3
Teaching Close-Reading for ESL/EFL: Uses and Abuses.
Fischer-Kohn, Elaine – 1986
The approaches used for reading instruction in the United States and in the People's Republic of China are different and incompatible. In China, English reading is taught intensively, through close-reading or detailed oral analysis of brief texts and with great attention to individual words and phrases. This "bottom-up" processing style,…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Education, Contrastive Linguistics