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Bråten, Ivar; Brante, Eva W.; Strømsø, Helge I. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2018
One-hundred and twenty-seven Norwegian upper-secondary school students completing college preparatory courses (41% female) were asked to select the texts they wanted to use in order to write a letter to the editor about a socio-scientific topic, with 60 students assigned the topic of climate change and 67 students assigned the topic of nuclear…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries, College Preparation
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Braten, Ivar; Ferguson, Leila E.; Anmarkrud, Oistein; Stromso, Helge I. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
Sixty-five Norwegian 10th graders used the software Read&Answer 2.0 (Vidal-Abarca et al., 2011) to read five different texts presenting conflicting views on the controversial scientific issue of sun exposure and health. Participants were administered a multiple-choice topic-knowledge measure before and after reading, a word recognition task,…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Grade 10, Learning, Reading Comprehension
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Rydland, Veslemøy; Aukrust, Vibeke Grøver; Fulland, Helene – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2013
Immigrant students may use and develop language and literacy skills differently depending on the dominance of the first and second language (L1 and L2) in the neighborhoods where they live. In this study, neighborhood effects on students' reported language use at home and with peers, and on measured language and literacy proficiency, were…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Second Language Learning, Neighborhoods, Language Usage