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Laura Key; Chris Till; Joe Maxwell – Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 2024
This paper introduces a project to develop a digital academic writing tool at Leeds Beckett University (LBU). Essay X-ray is an interactive online tool designed to help students get to grips with the structure and style of academic writing and was developed using the Articulate Storyline 360 platform. The aim was to expand LBU's academic skills…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing (Composition), Academic Language, Writing Assignments
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Ruthie E. Knight; Michaela J. Ritter; Diane F. Loeb – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2025
The purpose of this narrative review was to examine the linguistic and classroom strategies used by young adults with dyslexia. Studies investigating evidence about university students' use of strategies were compiled from four databases, including Academic Search Complete, APA PyscINFO, Education Research Complete, and Medline. Among the 117…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Students with Disabilities, College Students, Learning Strategies
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Heather Johnston; Maria Eaton; Isabel Henry; Eva-Marie Deeley; Bryony N. Parsons – Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 2025
The aim of this project was to identify ways in which students are using Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) technologies for the planning and researching stage of essay style assignments. The study recruited 30 students from various subject areas and levels of study and with different self-reported levels of confidence in using GAI tools.…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Writing (Composition), Academic Language
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Castells, Núria; Minguela, Marta; Nadal, Esther – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Little evidence is available regarding the differential impact of reading versus reading and writing on multiple source comprehension. The present study aims to: (1) compare the inferential comprehension performance of students in reading versus reading/synthesis conditions; (2) explore the impact of performing the tasks on paper versus on screen…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Reading Comprehension, Synthesis, Reading Processes
Sarah Ann Barry – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This quantitative study endeavored to compare a new strategy of making irrelevant information less salient with a common reading strategy of highlighting to determine which would best aid students in making connections within and between multiple texts. Participants were 60 high school students, ranging in age from 14-17 years old. The adolescents…
Descriptors: High School Students, Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Relevance (Education)
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Setyaningsih, Yuliana; Rahardi, R. Kunjana – Online Submission, 2020
A constellation of arguments is present in each component of a journal article. Understanding the constellation of arguments in such journal articles is important because they will directly affect the writing of journal articles. This study aims to describe the constellation of arguments in the structure of the intended journal article. Data were…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Journal Articles, Writing for Publication, Text Structure
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Anabela Malpique; Deborah Pino-Pasternak; Debora Valcan; Mustafa Asil – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Two hundred ninety-eight primary teachers (88% female) from across all Australian states and territories reported on the frequency with which they implemented instructional adaptations for struggling writers in their classrooms. They also rated their preparation and self-efficacy for teaching writing. The majority of participating teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Writing (Composition), Writing Difficulties
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Nadine Cruz Neri; Sascha Bernholt; Hendrik Härtig; Anke Schmitz; Jan Retelsdorf – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
Prior research has examined the impact of different cognitive predictors on students' expository and narrative text comprehension. It has become apparent that some cognitive variables predict text comprehension in both genres, while some are genre-specific predictors. However, the effect of reading motivation on expository and narrative text…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes, Reading Motivation
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Yves Bestgen – Applied Linguistics, 2024
Measuring lexical diversity in texts that have different lengths is problematic because length has a significant effect on the number of types a text contains, thus hampering any comparison. Treffers-Daller et al. (2018) recommended a simple solution, namely counting the number of types in a section of a given length that was extracted from the…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Second Language Learning, Essays, Writing Evaluation
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Ágnes Hódi; Edit Tóth; Marianne Nikolov – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
Reading literacy is a multidimensional construct in terms of text and reading processes. Much research has examined the divisibility of the processes underlying reading, but they have treated the rest of the construct as unitary. This study extends the examination of dimensionality to a neglected area in literacy studies. It tests reading models…
Descriptors: Reader Text Relationship, Reading Processes, Text Structure, Foreign Countries
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Aparicio, Xavier; Belaïd, Souad; Baccino, Thierry; Megalakaki, Olga – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2022
In this study, we compared the effects of two media (Interactive Whiteboards and Paper) on both expository and narrative texts reading comprehension among 5th grade children of primary school. Two texts were constructed, according to the same controlled hierarchical structure. Comprehension was assessed by a multiple-choice questionnaire including…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Interactive Video, Educational Technology, Elementary School Students
Alida K. Hudson; Julie Owens; Karol A. Moore; Kacee Lambright; Kausalai Wijekumar – Grantee Submission, 2021
This teaching tip aims to build awareness of using a text's structure as a framework for building students' reading comprehension. The authors detail the Framework for Accelerating the Strategic Comprehension of Text (FASCT) to support elementary students reading comprehension abilities by explicitly teaching students to use the structure of a…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Direct Instruction
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Alida K. Hudson; Julie Owens; Karol A. Moore; Kacee Lambright; Kausalai Wijekumar – Reading Teacher, 2021
This teaching tip aims to build awareness of using a text's structure as a framework for building students' reading comprehension. The authors detail the Framework for Accelerating the Strategic Comprehension of Text (FASCT) to support elementary students reading comprehension abilities by explicitly teaching students to use the structure of a…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Direct Instruction
Eliza Barach – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Emojis are nonverbal elements used in text-based communication that may function like gestures in spoken communication (Feldman et al., 2017; McCulloch & Gawne, 2018). Like words, emojis can convey semantic information and support message comprehension (Lo, 2008; Riordan, 2017b). Nevertheless, the cognitive and perceptual processes involved in…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Reading Skills, Text Structure, Reading Comprehension
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Huixian Li; Yongyan Zheng – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) has significantly reshaped our understanding of second language learning and teaching across the micro, meso, and macro levels for several decades since its systematic introduction by Larsen-Freeman and Cameron (2008). This study conducts a comprehensive review of empirical research on second language learning…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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