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Bilgi, Arzu Doganay; Özmen, E. Rüya – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2018
This study investigates the effectiveness of Modified Multi-Component Cognitive Strategy Instruction (MMCSI) on expository text comprehension skills of students with mild intellectual disability (ID). Three students participated from inclusion classes of three different secondary schools in Turkey. The study was conducted using a multiple probe…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Mild Intellectual Disability, Reading Strategies, Teaching Methods
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Batur, Zekerya – Reading Improvement, 2018
The aim of this study is to investigate the perception levels of the messages of didactic fiction texts in fictive context and the student's perception levels of these messages. 80 students attending the grades of 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th--20 from each grade--are randomly selected as participants. Under the supervision of specialists, six fictive…
Descriptors: Fiction, Text Structure, Student Attitudes, Student Evaluation
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Marlow, Shannon L.; Lacerenza, Christina N.; Iwig, Chelsea – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2018
The present study experimentally manipulated the gender of an email sender, closing salutation, and sending mode (i.e., email sent via desktop computer/laptop as compared with email sent via a mobile device) to determine if these specific cues influence first impressions of the sender's competence, professionalism, positive affect, and negative…
Descriptors: Cues, Electronic Mail, Computer Mediated Communication, Business Communication
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Zimmerman, Diane P.; Litzau, Katrina M.; Murray, Vicki L. – Journal of Staff Development, 2016
In 2014, instructional coaches Katrina Litzau and Vicki Murray designed professional learning to support teachers and principals in developing a deeper understanding of the cognitive processes of leadership. Steeped in the Common Core State Standards and building on quality literacy instruction, they designed the professional learning based on…
Descriptors: Professional Continuing Education, Faculty Development, Training Methods, Text Structure
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Monsefi, Roya; Mahadi, Tengku Sepora Tengku – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
Within the endless stream of information available on the news media market, news headline language is characterised by several linguistic, pragmatic, rhetorical and functional features that distinguish it from other varieties of language that are not specialised. In the present study, the rhetorical features of English news headlines, through…
Descriptors: Language Usage, News Reporting, Pragmatics, Rhetoric
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Reutzel, D. Ray; Jones, Cindy D.; Clark, Sarah K.; Kumar, Tamara – Journal of Educational Research, 2016
There has been no research reported about if or how well primary grade teachers can identify information text structures in children's authentic informational texts. The ability to do so accurately and reliably is a prerequisite for teachers to be able to teach students how to recognize and use text structures to assist them in comprehending…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Surveys, Accuracy
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Allan, Cherie – English in Australia, 2017
Is digital fiction worthy of serious consideration as a literary text and does it have a place in the English classroom, particularly in light of the establishment of a stand-alone Literature subject as part of the Years 11-12 English program in the Australian Curriculum? To answer these questions this paper briefly looks at the development and…
Descriptors: Fiction, English Curriculum, Definitions, Electronic Learning
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Schröter, Pauline; Schroeder, Sascha – Journal of Research in Reading, 2017
Background: In Germany, there is a substantial gap in reading literacy between monolingual children and their L2-speaking peers. Nevertheless, it is still unclear where these performance differences are rooted. Methods: We investigated children of grades 5, 6 and 7 with comparable socio-economic status, who completed a battery of tests assessing…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Monolingualism, Socioeconomic Status
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Burnett, Amy Nelson – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2017
The learning goals of a well-designed course in the liberal arts include not only the imparting of knowledge but also the development of critical thinking and disciplinary expertise. A class on Luther can help students acquire those intellectual skills associated with the discipline of history and the liberal arts more generally as they consider…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Liberal Arts, Critical Thinking, Learning Processes
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Shen, Yuru – English Language Teaching, 2017
English writing is one of the four indispensable skills that English learners need to master, but unfortunately, many Chinese college students have much difficulty composing clear, concise and coherent essays although they have studied English for at least over six years. To address the problem, the researchers and teachers in China have tried…
Descriptors: Readability, Readability Formulas, Writing Strategies, College Students
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Magnusson, Camilla G.; Roe, Astrid; Blikstad-Balas, Marte – Reading Research Quarterly, 2019
The authors examined naturally occurring reading comprehension strategies instruction (RCSI) across four consecutive lessons in 47 Norwegian language arts classrooms at the lower secondary level via video observations (n = 178). Although numerous studies have examined the effectiveness of RCSI for improving reading outcomes, few studies have…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Video Technology, Language Arts
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Cheng, Hercy N. H.; Liao, Calvin C. Y.; Chang, Wan-Chen – Educational Technology & Society, 2018
Graduate students usually lack sufficient ability to read academic papers effectively and efficiently. For facilitating their reading comprehension, this study adopts summarization as a main reading strategy under the scaffold of keyword evaluation. Furthermore, this study attempts to transform summarization into a group-based educational game by…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Documentation
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Al Otaiba, Stephanie; Connor, Carol McDonald; Crowe, Elizabeth – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
Research to guide text structure interventions for the primary grades is very limited, yet as early as in kindergarten, many state standards increasingly emphasize exposure to challenging expository texts. The purpose of the present study was to provide preliminary evidence of the feasibility and promise (or the effects) of three brief text…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Teaching Methods, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Bazerman, Charles – Educational Psychologist, 2018
Writing is an ever-creative artifice, elaborated in many different ways and used for many different purposes in different situations throughout history. From this perspective, each writer, embedded within a perceived sociohistoric moment, poses problems to solve, makes choices, and creates solutions from locally available resources and practices…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Models, Writing (Composition), Authors
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Maybin, Janet; Lillis, Theresa – Language Teaching, 2015
This seminar took place on 19 April, 2013 at the Centre for Language and Communication, Faculty of Language and Education Studies, The Open University. The seminar was coordinated by Janet Maybin and Theresa Lillis and there were 28 participants, including four postgraduate students, from universities in Britain, Belgium and South Africa.
Descriptors: Seminars, Open Universities, Graduate Students, College Faculty
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