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Taboada, Ana; Buehl, Michelle M. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2012
Given the increasing number of immigrant students in the USA initially schooled in Mexico, Central America, and South America, and the dearth of investigations examining the beliefs of teachers from Mexico, Central America, or South America, an exploration of Latin American teachers' conceptions may inform policy-makers and researchers about…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Investigations, Foreign Countries, Reading Motivation
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Taboada, Ana; Tonks, Stephen M.; Wigfield, Allan; Guthrie, John T. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2009
The authors examined how motivational and cognitive variables predict reading comprehension, and whether each predictor variable adds unique explanatory power when statistically controlling for the others. Fourth-grade students (N = 205) completed measures of reading comprehension in September and December of the same year, and measures of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Predictor Variables, Reading Motivation, Student Motivation
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Guthrie, John T.; Wigfield, Allan; Barbosa, Pedro; Perencevich, Kathleen C.; Taboada, Ana; Davis, Marcia H.; Scafiddi, Nicole T.; Tonks, Stephen – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2004
Based on an engagement perspective of reading development, we investigated the extent to which an instructional framework of combining motivation support and strategy instruction (Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction--CORI) influenced reading outcomes for third-grade children. In CORI, five motivational practices were integrated with six cognitive…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies