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Suk, Namhee – Reading Research Quarterly, 2017
Several empirical studies and syntheses of extensive reading have concluded that extensive reading has positive impacts on language learning in second- and foreign-language settings. However, many of the studies contained methodological or curricular limitations, raising questions about the asserted positive effects of extensive reading. The…
Descriptors: Reading Rate, Multivariate Analysis, Control Groups, Experimental Groups
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Martinez, Joseph G. R.; Johnson, Peder J. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1982
Points up the importance of encoding time to the global act of reading. (AEA)
Descriptors: Adults, College Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes
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Carver, Ronald P. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1982
Reports data that indicate there is an optimal rate of reading and listening to prose and that support interrelationships among accuracy, rate, and efficiency of comprehension. (AEA)
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Theories, Higher Education, Listening Comprehension
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Carver, Ronald P. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1985
Investigates the reading rate and comprehension of a total of 16 individuals who represented four superior reading groups: speed readers, professionals, college students, and people who scored exceptionally high on tests. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adults, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Reading Ability
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Birkmire, Deborah P. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1985
Describes an experiment that explored the relationships between text structure, prior knowledge, and reader's purpose on the processing of text and memory for text information. Results demonstrated that the strategies used to read text are flexible. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Objectives, College Students, Higher Education, Memory