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Vlangas, Jennifer A. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
With the adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and in preparation for standards-aligned assessments and twenty-first-century literacy demands, the needs of the adolescents who struggle with reading demand attention. Students who exhibit poor literacy levels have historically occupied seats in secondary classrooms, but the likelihood…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Reading Difficulties, Secondary School Students, Reading Instruction
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Ningroem, Restoe – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2015
The purpose of this research is to acknowledge the effectivity of using association picture media toward the students' "katakana" letter reading comprehension. The hypothesis proposed was the ability of students' "katana" letter reading skill that applies association pictures is more effective to compare if no such media is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Japanese, Second Language Instruction, Alphabets
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Huang, Yu-Ning; Hong, Zuway-R. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2016
The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of a flipped English classroom intervention on high school students' information and communication technology (ICT) and English reading comprehension in Taiwan. Forty 10th graders were randomly selected from a representative senior high school as an experimental group (EG) to attend a 12-h…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Blended Learning, Reading Comprehension, Statistical Analysis
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Barnes, Marcia A.; Ahmed, Yusra; Barth, Amy; Francis, David J. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2015
The integration of knowledge during reading was tested in 1,109 secondary school students. Reading times for the second sentence in a pair (Jane's headache went away) were compared in conditions where the first sentence was either causally or temporally related to the first sentence (Jane took an aspirin vs. Jane looked for an aspirin).…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Shih, Ying-Chun – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2015
The effects of extensive reading on EFL context have been examined with a variety of studies. This study examined the impact of extensive reading on reading proficiency while the participants were taught reading strategies. Furthermore, this study explored whether there were any differences between intervention and control groups on the reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Majors (Students), English (Second Language), Intervention
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Janssen, Tanja; Braaksma, Martine; Rijlaarsdam, Gert – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2006
In this study we examined how good and weak students of literature interact with short literary stories. We focused on differences in the use of cognitive and affective reading activities, and in the extent to which good and weak students adapt their activities to (parts of) the story they are reading. 19 Dutch tenth-grade students from 8 classes…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Grade 10, Literature, Secondary Education