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Van Keer, Hilde; Vanderlinde, Ruben – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2010
The present study explores the impact of an experimental reading intervention focusing on explicit reading strategy instruction and cross-age peer tutoring on third and sixth graders' reading strategy awareness, cognitive and metacognitive reading strategy use, and reading comprehension achievement. A quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design was…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Standardized Tests
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Peters, Elke; Hulstijn, Jan H.; Sercu, Lies; Lutjeharms, Madeline – Language Learning, 2009
This study investigated three techniques designed to increase the chances that second language (L2) readers look up and learn unfamiliar words during and after reading an L2 text. Participants in the study, 137 college students in Belgium (L1 = Dutch, L2 = German), were randomly assigned to one of four conditions, forming combinations of two…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes, College Students