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Araman, Bonnie D. – 1976
Twenty English-Japanese bilingual subjects were given the following reading tasks: timed, silent reading of passages in English and Japanese followed by comprehension tests and recognition of tachistoscopic presentations of twenty words in each language. The amount of reading the subjects had done in English and Japanese was assessed in an…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Bilingualism, College Students, English (Second Language)
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1979
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 21 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: children's development of syntactic aspects of reading comprehension, the relative contributions of the individual and the text in the comprehension and retention…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Beginning Reading, Connected Discourse
Indiana State Dept. of Public Instruction, Indianapolis. Div. of Reading Effectiveness. – 1974
Specific reading program objectives are included in this guide in the areas of prereading; word recognition; comprehension; study skills; and attitudes, interests, and values. Methods of determining reading ability by diagnosis and methods for estimating reading potential are discussed. Factors involved in early reading experiences which are…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Auditory Discrimination, Beginning Reading, Elementary Education
Goetz, Frank; LaBay, Michael – 1974
The SWRL Kindergarten Program was developed by the Southwest Regional Laboratory for Educational Research and Development (SWRL), a federally funded facility located in Inglewood, California. In Birmingham, interest in the SWRL program was stimulated and developed during the Fall of 1971. It was felt that this program would provide the children…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education
Harris, Albert J. – 1970
Intended for beginning students concerned with reading instruction as well as for graduate students, reading teachers, or remedial specialists, the text deals with the overall classroom program, methods for evaluating and diagnosing group and individual needs, and developmental and remedial teaching of specific skills. Chapters explore the…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Group Instruction, Individual Needs, Learning Disabilities
Bryant, Antusa S.; And Others
This guide for Adult Basic Education (ABE) teachers in reading instruction was developed at a Mankato State College workshop. It is divided into three sections: (1) the placement of students in reading materials and instructional programs, (2) the diagnosis of basic word recognition skills (sight words, phonics, and structural analysis), and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Context Clues, Curriculum Guides, Diagnostic Tests
Smith, Nila Banton – 1974
The basic reading skills learned in the primary grades do not equip students with sufficient skills to read everything they need to read through school. Hence all teachers, regardless of the grade level or subject they teach, should know what the fundamental reading skills are and how to teach them to children who need help with increasingly more…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Decoding (Reading), Developmental Reading, Elementary School Students
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Murray, David J. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1986
A study analyzing word characteristics that make them more easily translated from English to French (or vice versa) indicates that translation efficacy is most strongly influenced by the frequency of the word in the language, its familiarity, and the similarity of the French equivalent to the English word. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Correlation, Cues
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 2004
The English Language Arts Standard Course of Study establishes competency goals and objectives for the teaching and learning of English Language Arts in North Carolina. This document details the English Language Arts content that should be taught in all schools. The entire K-12 North Carolina English Language Arts Standard Course of Study was last…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Competence, Reading Programs
Parmer, Lavada Jacumin; Thames, Dana G.; Kazelskis, Richard – 1997
A study examined the effectiveness of an integrated language arts instructional format for teaching reading compared with the effectiveness of the typical traditional reading program. The study investigated the effectiveness of approaches that are representative of both viewpoints of the reading process (i.e., word recognition and the construction…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Instructional Effectiveness, Integrated Activities, Intermediate Grades
Bender, William N.; Larkin, Martha J. – 2003
This guide to reading instruction for elementary and middle school students with learning difficulties covers a wide variety of practical instructional strategies founded in research and proven effective in classrooms. An introductory chapter notes the growing national emphasis on reading skills, especially research-based reading programs and the…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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Horodezky, Betty – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1979
The 50 most frequently occurring words found in primary level reading materials were taught to kindergarten pupils using three different teaching methods. Neither methodology nor frequency of occurrence affected the relative learning difficulty of sight words. The study is the second investigation in a series. (SB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Context Clues, Kindergarten Children, Kinesthetic Methods
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Taguchi, Etsuo – Reading in a Foreign Language, 1997
Investigates the effects of repeated readings of a passage in a foreign language (English) on the ability of slow beginning readers at a Japanese university to increase their oral and silent reading rates. Results indicate that, for practice passages, silent reading rates increased significantly. This transfer of practice effects to a new passage…
Descriptors: College Students, Control Groups, English (Second Language), Females
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Stoller, Fredericka L. – Reading in a Foreign Language, 1994
Presents a model reading lab design for advanced English for Academic Purposes students and describes the four major instructional components of the lab as well as the logistics of running a lab. (44 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, College Students, English for Academic Purposes, Feedback
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Wolery, Mark; And Others – Remedial and Special Education (RASE), 1990
This study found that constant time delay was effective in teaching word reading to four students (ages seven to eight) with mild handicaps. Individual attentional response was more effective and efficient in learning to spell words than in choral attentional response. Observational and incidental learning occurred for all students. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Attention, Beginning Reading, Incidental Learning, Individualized Programs
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