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Download full textBui, Tuan Ngoc; Macalister, John – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2021
One of the challenges for the successful implementation of extensive reading (ER) programmes, especially in Asian contexts, stems from curricular factors where class time is often prioritised for tasks requiring the presence of a teacher. This paper investigates the role of extensive reading online (ERO), an alternative approach to traditional ER,…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Program Implementation, Time Management, Reading Processes
Hayes, Sharon Moran; Williams, Jeanine L. – NADE Digest, 2016
The current trend in postsecondary literacy is to offer developmental reading and writing coursework in an integrated, (and in most cases) accelerated, format. This move toward integration and acceleration is definitely in line with the research literature; however, many of these new courses do not reflect the curricular and pedagogical reforms…
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Integrated Activities, Acceleration (Education), Critical Thinking
But, Juanita C.; Brown, Pamela; Smyth, Davida S. – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2017
This paper describes the structure and activities of READ (Reading Effectively Across the Disciplines), a pilot initiative to improve students' critical reading skills, disciplinary literacy and academic success. READ employs a multimodal design that consists of faculty training in disciplinary literacy instruction and curricular enhancement,…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Reading Skills, Academic Achievement
Livingston, Candice; Klopper, Betsie; Cox, Sanet; Uys, Corrie – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 2015
Research regarding the academic reading load experienced by first year students at universities in South Africa indicated that students are woefully under-prepared to deal with this load as they have limited reading experiences and strategies. This led to the implementation of an academic reading programme at a university of technology. In order…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Reading Programs, Reading Instruction
Alzu'bi, Mohammad Akram – English Language Teaching, 2014
This study aimed at investigating the impact of extensive reading on improving reading proficiency. The study tried to find the effect of ER on EFL student's reading, vocabulary and grammar. The researcher designed two instruments; a program based on the extensive reading strategy and general test. Forty-one university students who study English…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Language Proficiency
Ismail, Nasrah Mahmoud; Tawalbeh, Tha'er Issa – International Education Studies, 2015
As the training of language learners was a main concern of EFL teachers, this study aimed to assess the effectiveness of metacognitive reading strategies instruction (MRSI) on Taif University EFL students who achieved low results in reading. The final sample of this study was (21) female university students. The sample was divided into two groups;…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Strategies, Experimental Groups, English (Second Language)
Direct linkFuqua, Jason – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2015
The number of native Arabic-speaking students coming to America to study English in university programs has grown over the past few years, and continues to be substantial. It has also been noticed by the English Language Institute (ELI) at Sam Houston State University (SHSU) that these students often struggle more with reading activities in class,…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Reading Skills, Semitic Languages, Arabs
Schmitt, Ara J.; McCallum, Elizabeth; Hennessey, Jenna; Lovelace, Temple; Hawkins, Renee O. – Assistive Technology, 2012
Reading pens are a form of assistive technology that may be used to bypass weak word decoding and vocabulary skills of students with reading disabilities. Only two known studies have examined the effects of reading pens on the comprehension of school-aged students, and no known studies have been published regarding post-secondary students. The…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Instructional Effectiveness, Educational Technology, Assistive Technology
Anderson, Trela; Kim, Ji Young – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2011
This article describes how Fayetteville State University's Reading Across the Curriculum (RAC) model developed for use with underprepared students can effectively improve the literacy and academic language skills of those students. The primary goals and objectives of the RAC program are to train faculty members from various disciplines to create…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Language Skills, Success, Models
Ducharme, Daphne; Leblanc, Raymond; Bourassa, Michelle; Chevalier, Jacques – Online Submission, 2011
This article describes a collaborative research study of university researchers and Grades one and two teachers from an Ontario, Canada French-language School Board. The School Board offered phonological awareness and reading-teaching training to grades one and two teachers with a long-term goal of improving the reading outcomes of the students in…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Acculturation, Phonological Awareness, Foreign Countries
Walsh, Kate; Glaser, Deborah; Wilcox, Danielle Dunne – National Council on Teacher Quality, 2006
The persistent reading struggles and failure of nearly 40 percent of all American children, little improved over time, has led to aggressive government-funded efforts in school districts to train veteran teachers in the science of reading. The accumulated scientific findings of nearly 60 years of research gained the nation's attention with the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Teacher Effectiveness, Oral Reading, Textbooks
Hoffman, James V., Ed.; Schallert, Diane L., Ed.; Fairbanks, Colleen M., Ed.; Worthy, Jo, Ed.; Maloch, Beth, Ed. – National Reading Conference, 2001
At the 2000 conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, the National Reading Conference celebrated its 50th anniversary, and with this issue, the editors offer to the readership the "50th Yearbook" of the conference. This Yearbook begins with a preface and presents profiles of two awardees, Lee Gunderson and Michael Pressley. Included in this…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Preservice Teacher Education, Class Size, Literacy
