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Direct linkHubbard, Katharine E.; Dunbar, Sonja D.; Peasland, Emma L.; Poon, Jacquelyne; Solly, Jeremy E. – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2022
Reading primary research literature is an essential skill for scientists. However, the high complexity of research papers may pose a barrier to the development of scientific literacy. In semi-structured interviews, we explore how 33 biologists including undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers approach reading an unfamiliar scientific paper.…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Research Reports, Scientific and Technical Information, Scientific Literacy
Alexandra List; Gala S. Campos Oaxaca – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
While learners' evaluations of author trustworthiness have received much attention in prior research, less work has examined how students evaluate information within texts or engage in critique. Specifically, in this exploratory study, we sought to determine how effective higher education students were at engaging in research report critique, a…
Descriptors: Evaluative Thinking, Information Sources, College Students, Research Reports
Dori, Yehudit Judy; Allouche, Amira; Herscu-Kluska, Ronit; Herscovitz, Orit; Yarden, Hagit; Blinder, Yaron; Levenberg, Shulamit – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2023
Our study investigates the effect of hybrid courses and reading scientific articles on scientific literacy of biomedical engineering students. Participants included about 100 undergraduate and graduate students who participated in one or two hybrid courses. Our research goal was to study the effect of reading scientific articles and participating…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Engineering Education, Problem Solving, Scientific Research
Jouhar, Mohammed R.; Rupley, William H. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2021
Although much is known of the impact of systematic reading instruction on writing performance and of systematic writing instruction on reading comprehension, little is known regarding the reading-writing connection based on independent reading and writing. This systematic review identified 13 experimental studies published between 1970 and 2019…
Descriptors: Reading Writing Relationship, Independent Reading, Direct Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
Noam Siegelman; Irina Elgort; Marc Brysbaert; Niket Agrawal; Simona Amenta; Jasmina Arsenijevic Mijalkovic; Christine S. Chang; Daria Chernova; Fabienne Chetail; A. J. Benjamin Clarke; Alain Content; Davide Crepaldi; Nastag Davaabold; Shurentsetseg Delgersuren; Avital Deutsch; Veronika Dibrova; Denis Drieghe; Dušica Filipovic Ðurdevic; Brittany Finch; Ram Frost; Carolina A. Gattei; Esther Geva; Aline Godfroid; Lindsay Griener; Esteban Hernández-Rivera; Anastasia Ivanenko; Juhani Järvikivi; Lea Kawaletz; Anurag Khare; Jun Ren Lee; Charlotte E. Lee; Christina Manouilidou; Marco Marelli; Timur Mashanlo; Ksenija Mišic; Koji Miwa; Pauline Palma; Ingo Plag; Zoya Rezanova; Enkhzaya Riimed; Jay Rueckl; Sascha Schroeder; Irina A. Sekerina; Diego E. Shalom; Natalia Slioussar; Neža Marija Slosar; Vanessa Taler; Kim Thériault; Debra Titone; Odonchimeg Tumee; Ross van de Wetering; Ark Verma; Anna Fiona Weiss; Denise Hsien Wu; Victor Kuperman – Language Learning, 2024
This article presents the ENglish Reading Online (ENRO) project that offers data on English reading and listening comprehension from 7,338 university-level advanced learners and native speakers of English representing 19 countries. The database also includes estimates of reading rate and seven component skills of English, including vocabulary,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
Beyond Breadth: The Contributions of Vocabulary Depth to Reading Comprehension among Skilled Readers
Binder, Katherine S.; Cote, Nicole Gilbert; Lee, Cheryl; Bessette, Emily; Vu, Huong – Journal of Research in Reading, 2017
This study investigated the relationships among vocabulary breadth, vocabulary depth, reading comprehension, and reading rate among college-aged students. While the relationships of some of these variables have been explored in previous research, the current study's focus on the role of vocabulary depth on the literacy measures within a sample of…
Descriptors: Correlation, Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension, Reading Rate
Download full textOshima, Jun; Oshima, Ritsuko; Fujita, Wataru – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2018
The purpose of this study was to propose a mixed-methods approach to analyzing shared epistemic agency in jigsaw instruction from multiple temporal perspectives, and to evaluate its effectiveness by examining actual datasets. We employed a combination of socio-semantic network analysis (SSNA) and in-depth dialogical discourse analysis as a…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Cooperative Learning, Network Analysis, Discourse Analysis
Hellerstein-Yehezkel, Devora – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2017
This article illustrates the significance of intercultural competence in teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) to a multicultural group of students in a matriculation preparation programme in Israel. It is based on an action research using a case study approach to examine the role of cultural background in the acquisition of EFL. Drawing…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Gascoigne, Carolyn; Parnell, Juliette – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2016
With todays' students spending increasing amounts of time involved in online activities, there is a growing need to study their online reading habits. Indeed, it is not only students' out-of-class engagement with electronic media that calls for increased attention to the reading skill, in general, and online reading, in particular, but it is also…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, French
Huisinga, Laura Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Technology has shown promise to aid struggling readers in higher education, particularly through new and emerging technologies. Augmented reality (AR) has been used successfully in the classroom to motivate and engage struggling learners, yet little research exists on how augmented print might help struggling readers. This study explores this gap,…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, College Students, Reading Motivation, Reading Comprehension
Sartini, Emily; Knight, Victoria F.; Spriggs, Amy D.; Allday, R. Allan – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2018
As increasing literature emerges to address text comprehension deficits for students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), educators often struggle to design interventions resulting in successful generalization of comprehension skills. This evaluative review of literature explored the inclusion of and methods used in generalization of text…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Reading Comprehension, Literature Reviews
Oh, Byung-Doh; So, Youngsoon – English Teaching, 2018
In order to inform foreign language education practices that can empower students to properly retrieve and utilize information in today's society, research on the nature of reading that takes place on the Internet--referred to as online research and comprehension--is of paramount importance. As an initial step, this study investigated the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Huh, Seonmin – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2016
This article explores the general patterns of interactions between the teacher and students during the different instructional steps when the teacher attempted to incorporate both conventional skill-based reading and critical literacy in an English as a foreign language (EFL) literacy class in a Korean university. There has been a paucity of EFL…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Literacy, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Huang, Sha – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2018
Second language (L2) reading research suggests that successful reading comprehension usually involves a repertoire of strategies. Although Chinese is considered to be a challenging language for foreign language readers, thus far, few studies have investigated how strategies are orchestrated by readers of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) to…
Descriptors: Chinese, Reading Strategies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Rott, Susanne; Gavin, Bianca – CALICO Journal, 2015
This investigation reports on a conceptual replication of Goldman et al. (2012) which sought to determine processing patterns of better and poorer learners as they attempted to comprehend and learn from seven textual sources on the Internet in their native language English. The aim of the current investigation was to explore how reading multiple…
Descriptors: Internet, Electronic Learning, Replication (Evaluation), Second Language Learning
