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Gladwin, Ransom F., IV; Stepp-Greany, Jonita – Foreign Language Annals, 2008
This study analyzes the effects of the Interactive Reading with Instructor Support (IRIS) model on reading comprehension, as compared to a traditional (direct-teaching/lecture format) instructional model. The IRIS model combines reading strategies and social mediation together in the Spanish as a second language environment. In the IRIS model,…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods, Comparative Analysis
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Ruiz-Funes, Marcela – Foreign Language Annals, 2001
Explored how third-year-level university students represented an assigned reading-to-write task as indicated by the type of papers they produced, and the relationship between the linguistic quality of those papers and the type of task representation. Findings suggest that the ability to interpret a reading-to-write task appropriately is dependent…
Descriptors: College Students, Grammar, Higher Education, Interrater Reliability