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Download full textPersson, Ulla-Britt – 1994
A study investigated Swedish students' attitudes about the point of being able to read. Subjects were 53 Swedish students in grades 5 and 8. Their answers were distributed into three categories: a survival and participation perspective; a dynamic-instrumental perspective; and a personal experience perspective. Regardless of performance level, most…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Functional Literacy, Reading Achievement
Edfeldt, Ake W. – Research Bulletins, 1990
A study investigated the effectiveness of the "News Read" project in which reading was taught using an analytic procedure (where understanding is a prerequisite for correct decoding) using newspapers as the sole reading materials. Subjects, about 300 students in three classes from each of the three levels of Swedish comprehensive schools…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Instructional Effectiveness, Newspapers
Bulcock, Jeffrey W. – 1974
Three stages of linear causal model building procedures (conceptual, main theory, and auxiliary theory) were used to examine the cultural and personality resources of individuals and their school-related skills as determinants of achievement in mother tongue literature. A path analytic approach was used to test a popular model of literature…
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Cultural Influences, Family Environment, Literature
Lado, Robert, Ed.; Andersson, Theodore, Ed. – 1976
The six articles in this journal deal with various aspects of early reading. The topics covered are: a preschool biliteracy project; early reading as language development; the techniques used in teaching children with normal hearing, hearing impaired children, and deaf children to read; preschool reading and speaking acquisition in two languages;…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Early Childhood Education, Early Reading, Foreign Countries
Jansson, Karin, Ed. – School Research Newsletter, 1981
Four cities in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark have been engaged since 1977 in a joint study of the junior level of elementary school. (More than 5,000 pupils are involved in the study.) The Department of Education at the University of Turku joined the project in the autumn term of 1979. The purpose of the Swedish project, reported here, was to…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary School Students, Followup Studies
MacKinnon, G. E., Ed.; Waller, T. Gary, Ed. – 1985
Intended to provide an outlet for systematic and substantive reviews, both empirical and theoretical, and for extended integrative reports of programatic research, this volume focuses on the nature of reading and reading disabilities, with implications for both theory and practice. The first chapter of the book reports on a long-term study of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Dyslexia, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
