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Odipo, Kelley E. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study represents findings of a case study focused on the connections between balanced literacy and the reading development of African American students in first and second grade. Utilizing a conceptual framework of culturally relevant pedagogy, this study investigated: (a) the ways in which teachers understood and implemented balanced…
Descriptors: African American Students, Sense of Community, Culturally Relevant Education, Teaching Methods
Golland, Rachel A. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
While there exists substantial research on struggling and developmental readers, few research-practitioners have sought to examine the histories and circumstances that result in strong readers. This study drew upon the reading autobiographies of doctoral students in an English Education program at an Ivy League institution, in order to discover…
Descriptors: Reading Ability, Reading Achievement, Reading Attitudes, Reading Habits
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Al Qahtani, Abdulkhaleq A. – TESOL International Journal, 2020
The present study reports reading strategies of Arabic L1 EFL college-level learners at three reading ability levels: high, medium, and low. Thirty students were asked to take the reading section of the TOFEL to determine their reading abilities. Then two participants from each level were selected randomly to go through the think-aloud protocol…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Protocol Analysis, Language Tests, English (Second Language)
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Longobardi, Claudio; Pasta, Tiziana; Marengo, Davide; Prino, Laura Elvira; Settanni, Michele – Journal of Experimental Education, 2020
Through two studies, this work examined the applicability, interpretability, and construct validity of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System K-3 (CLASS) to measure quality of classroom interactions. In the first study, the CLASS was used in 332 classrooms to test three alternative models (in time order, the one-, three-factor, and two-factor…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship
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Hasanudin, Cahyo; Fitrianingsih, Ayu – European Journal of Educational Research, 2020
This study aimed to describe seven indicators of students' verbal linguistic intelligence in reading subject. It used a qualitative research method. The subjects of this study were 30 students consisted of 9 male and 21 female students. They took the reading subject in the second semester of the first year. They were given a test of…
Descriptors: Verbal Ability, Intelligence, Content Analysis, Reading Ability
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Dexter, Casey A.; Johnson, Alex; Bowman, Margo; Barnett, Douglas – Reading Psychology, 2018
Previous research has demonstrated mixed findings pertaining to the risk conferred by variation from Mainstream American English (MAE) for African American children in our education system. Based on the research on language, behavior, and reading, the present study sought to examine the relative and combined contributions of culturally appropriate…
Descriptors: African American Students, Kindergarten, Grade 2, Elementary School Students
Lysaker, Judith T. – Teachers College Press, 2018
In this book, the author challenges reductive views of emergent literacy prevalent in many of today's kindergarten and pre-K classrooms. As an alternative, Lysaker explains how reading wordless books with young children helps them to develop a range of comprehension abilities that are important for understanding narrative texts. Readers will find…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Childrens Literature, Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten
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Talebi, Seyed Hassan; Maghsoudi, Mojtaba; Khodamoradi, Abolfazl – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2020
The current study, which is descriptive and correlational in design, intends to find out if, (a) Iranian university learners of English, Russian, and Arabic as foreign languages have the same patterns of reading strategy awareness and use (RSAU), and (b) their self-perceived reading ability correlates with their RSAU level. English, Russian, and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Correlation, College Students
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Rungsinanont, Sathirasak – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2020
The objectives of the study are to investigate the most significant contributory factors affecting Engineering students' reading ability in regard to journals, and to identify the problems thus encountered when they read English language journals. The participants in this study consisted of 60 Engineering students who were majoring in Industrial…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Content Area Reading, Reading Ability
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Chen, Kate Tzu-Ching – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2020
The purpose of this study was to investigate the online English information searching strategies (OEISS) used by university students studying English as a foreign language (EFL). Students' background characteristics were also examined to determine whether they influence the students' searching strategies. This study revised and used the Online…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), College Students
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Haoning Mah, Grace; Hu, Xiangqing; Yang, Weipeng – Policy Futures in Education, 2021
Singapore has launched a bilingual education policy nationwide, which leads to three main home language environments amongst Chinese families, namely, Chinese dominant, Chinese-English bilingual families and English dominant families. However, little is known about the development of early reading abilities among Singapore children from these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Uses in Education, Elementary School Students, Early Reading
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Austin, Kathy – Parenting for High Potential, 2016
Many gifted preschoolers are self-taught readers. This was confirmed by more than 200 parents in a 2011 study at Oregon State University focusing on young children's reading experiences. The purpose of the study was to determine how parents of gifted children and gifted students perceived the children's learning-to-read process, their early school…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Parent Attitudes, Reading Ability, Early Reading
Davison, Mark L.; Seipel, Ben; Clinton, Virgiia; Carlson, Sarah E.; Kennedy, Patrick C. – Grantee Submission, 2020
MOCCA-C is an assessment of adult reading ability designed for early diagnosis of reading problems, for formative assessment in reading intervention planning, for assessment of reading improvement over time, and for assessment of reading intervention outcomes. It uses both narrative and expository reading passages and it currently has four forms.…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Identification, Reading Difficulties, Intervention
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Bhide, Adeetee; Luo, Wencan; Vijay, Nivita; Perfetti, Charles; Wang, Jingtao; Maries, Adrian; Nag, Sonali – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
Previous research with alphasyllabaries has shown that children struggle with akshara that have two or more consonants, known as complex akshara. We developed a mobile game that teaches 4th grade children Hindi decoding skills, with an emphasis on complex akshara. All of the children were second language learners of Hindi. There were two versions…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Second Language Learning, Decoding (Reading), Educational Games
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Arnold, Sharon; Reed, Phil – British Journal of Special Education, 2019
Approximately 30% of school-aged individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are nonverbal (that is, they have little or no spontaneous spoken language). Most reading tests require verbalisation, which may under-estimate reading ability in this group. To determine decoding abilities of nonverbal children with ASD (with an age range of 72 to…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Decoding (Reading)
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