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Latham Keh, Melissa Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2014
It is well documented that ELLs face significant challenges as they develop literacy skills in their second language (NCES, 2007, 2011). This population is diverse and growing rapidly in Massachusetts and across the nation (Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, 2013; NCELA, 2011; Orosco, De Schonewise, De Onis, Klingner,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Miscue Analysis, Metalinguistics
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Henshaw, Ann – Reading, 1991
Describes the information gained during a study of 11- and 12-year-old remedial readers. Reflects upon the ways in which adolescents who are considered to be underachievers as readers' perceive their own reading abilities. (MG)
Descriptors: Interviews, Reading Ability, Reading Attitudes, Reading Research
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Myers, Jamie M. – 1986
This research report discusses a study which examined the purposes of reading in six respondents. Chapter 1 introduces the six respondents of the study and the inquirer; reasons for the study are briefly explained. Chapter 2 presents glimpses of several observations of classroom settings. Chapter 3 covers the methodology which guided the inquirer…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Interviews, Observation, Reading Ability
Fitzgerald, Jill; And Others – 1989
A study examined parental perceptions of young children's literacy development and explored the relationship between parental literacy level and perceptions of the importance of literacy artifacts and events/experiences in preschoolers' literacy development. Subjects, 108 parents of beginning kindergartners, were interviewed and given a test of…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Family Environment, Interviews, Kindergarten
Cox, Charlotte – Curriculum Review, 1983
Dr. Jeanne S. Chall discusses her research on the stages of reading development from prekindergarten through college and its implications for classroom teaching. (MBR)
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education, Futures (of Society), Instructional Improvement
Rasinski, Timothy V.; And Others – 1990
A study focused on families whose children were successful but not exceptional students in kindergarten. Subjects were eight parents (all mothers) whose children had been enrolled the previous year in a kindergarten program that maintained a whole language curricular orientation. The children (four girls and four boys) were highly successful in…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Interviews, Kindergarten Children, Parent Child Relationship
Pollock, John F.; Brown, Garth H. – 1980
A study investigated ways of establishing links between different methods of reading instruction, children's conceptualizations of the reading process, and children's actual reading behavior. Two instruments were used to assess the relationships between the three variables: a revised version of "The Reading Miscue Inventory" and…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Childhood Attitudes, Children