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Wu, Lin; Valcke, Martin; Van Keer, Hilde – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Reading strategies have been documented as beneficial facilitators for readers to understand text; their potential efficacy, however, has not yet adequately assessed among struggling readers in the context of a large number of students below grade level at secondary schools internationally. Using a pretest-posttest control group experimental…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Chinese, Pretests Posttests
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Treutlein, Anke; Schöler, Hermann; Landerl, Karin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
This study investigated whether German learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) acquire additional recoding strategies that they do not need for recoding in the consistent German orthography. Based on the psycholinguistic grain size theory (Ziegler & Goswami, 2005) we expected students with little experience in EFL to use the same…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English Language Learners, Reading Strategies, Orthographic Symbols
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Lau, Kit-ling; Chan, David W. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2007
This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive strategy instruction (CSI) on Chinese reading comprehension of Hong Kong low achieving students. A total of 88 Grade 7 students from four intact Chinese language remedial groups were randomly assigned to treatment and control conditions. Students in the treatment group received a…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Reading Motivation, Foreign Countries