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Dolba, Sammy Q.; Gula, Louie P.; Nunez, Jayrome L. – Online Submission, 2022
This research aims to determine the teachers' reading style, determine their reading speed, and determine which reading methods are the teachers' strengths and weaknesses utilizing a thorough evaluation of reading techniques from Hawker Brownlow Education. Using pre-determined reading materials. Using Google Forms, this study utilized the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Teachers, Reading Instruction, Reading Strategies
Jodai, Hojat – Online Submission, 2011
Reading fluency is one of the most important signs of language proficiency both for native and foreign language speakers (Grabe, 2010; Macalister, 2010; Winston, 2010; Hasbrouck, 2008; Rasinski, 2004; Oakley, 2003; Waldman, 1985; Cited in: Sayenko, 2010, Introduction Para 1). This paper is in the area of reading fluency and tries to investigate…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Reading Rate, Language Proficiency
Solak, Ekrem – Online Submission, 2014
This research aims to determine the preference of prospective English teachers in performing computer and paper-based reading tasks and to what extent computer and paper-based reading influence their reading speed, accuracy and comprehension. The research was conducted at a State run University, English Language Teaching Department in Turkey. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Computer Assisted Instruction, Conventional Instruction
Garrott, Carl L. – Online Submission, 2009
This study compared two groups of intermediate/advanced L2 French learners on a reading comprehension test when presented with or without background knowledge of the text. This study also compared intermediate and intermediate/advanced L2 French learners' reading comprehension when presented with increasing syntactic complexity. The results of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Second Language Learning, French, Reading Comprehension
Kotani, Katsunori; Yoshimi, Takehiko; Isahara, Hitoshi – Online Submission, 2010
In textbooks, foreign (second) language reading proficiency is often evaluated through comprehension questions. In case, authentic texts are used as reading material, such questions should be prepared by teachers. However, preparing appropriate questions may be a very demanding task for teachers. This paper introduces a method for automatically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Reading Materials, Predictive Measurement
Lee, Gabriel A. – Online Submission, 2002
Rauding theory states that two factors, accuracy and rate, explain nearly all the variance in the general reading ability of American schoolchildren (Carver, 1999). Using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and regression, this dissertation investigated to what extent the Rauding model could be applied to 92 Japanese university aged young adults…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Structural Equation Models, Word Recognition, Reading Ability