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Haidari, Sayed Masood; Tanriseven, Isil; Ozer, Omer – Online Submission, 2020
This article reports the evaluation of three EFL textbooks which are used in Afghan lower secondary schools by employing a document analysis approach. Two evaluators took part in the study, where they independently evaluated the textbooks of grades 7-9. This study employed a 33-item checklist designed by the researchers, adopting or modifying…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Neuman, Susan B.; Wong, Kevin M.; Kaefer, Tanya – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of digital and non-digital storybooks on low-income preschoolers' oral language comprehension. Employing a within-subject design on 38 four-year-olds from a Head Start program, we compared the effect of medium on preschoolers' target words and comprehension of stories. Four digital…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Statistical Analysis, Preschool Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Howell, Gina – Online Submission, 2012
For this project I worked with twelve of my fourth grade students from a local school in the southwestern part of Stokes County, North Carolina on increasing their vocabulary skills through the development and implementation of seven vocabulary strategies. During the Literature Review I came across the following seven strategies: Prediction;…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Semantics, Observation, Vocabulary