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Download full textAlharbi, Majed A. – JALT CALL Journal, 2016
This study investigated the effects of monolingual book dictionaries, popup dictionaries, and type-in dictionaries on improving reading comprehension and vocabulary learning in an EFL program. An experimental design involving four groups and a post-test was chosen for the experiment: (1) pop-up dictionary (experimental group 1); (2) type-in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Development, Dictionaries
Epistemic Beliefs Underpinning Discourse within a Critical Literacy Intervention: A Multi-Case Study
Direct linkPennell, Colleen – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Reading is a complex act mediated by cognitive and sociocultural constructs that include classroom discourse and personal epistemology. This study explored the epistemic beliefs underpinning the discourse of four third-grade, male struggling readers and sought to understand how these beliefs unfolded during the critical-analytic reading…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Intervention, Epistemology, Student Attitudes
Edwards, Patricia A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this mixed research design study was to examine how teachers in a large urban Midwestern district used Thinking Maps® with students in elementary school general education and special education classrooms. In addition, this study examined the use of Thinking Maps® with 30 urban elementary school males in two schools: one second…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Males, Student Attitudes, Urban Schools
Cakir, Ozler – Education, 2008
The main objective in the present study is to examine the effect of gender on primary school students' construction of elaborative backward inferences during text processing. A total of 333 children, aged 10-11 years (n = 158 girls and 175 boys) participated in the study. Each participant completed a backward inference test. The results indicate…
Descriptors: Females, Semantics, Memory, Inferences
Danks, Joseph H.; Glucksburg, Sam – Lang Speech, 1970
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Grammar, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedWhitson, George T.; Hogan, John D. – Reading Improvement, 1983
Concludes that J. Piaget's cognitive developmental theory may be used as a framework to understand reading in all children, while visual perception showed no relationship to any measure of reading. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Learning Theories, Males
Gambrell, Linda B.; Koskinen, Patricia S. – 1982
A study investigated (1) the effectiveness of giving instructions to form mental images prior to reading a text and at the conclusion of the text, and (2) sex differences in the ability of below average readers to form mental images. Subjects were 47 sixth grade students who were below average readers. The subjects were randomly assigned, by sex,…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Females
Hay, Anne E.; Brewer, William F. – 1983
Two experiments were conducted to investigate children's understanding of the relationship of narrators to the texts they narrate and how children's developing cognitive abilities influence that understanding. The subjects, 164 children aged 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 10, heard a series of short passages containing several characters, one of whom was the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages
