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Nguyen, Luz Elena. "The use of reciprocal teaching as a mediational tool to enhance reading comprehension." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3278.
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The purpose of this project was to study how Reciprocal Teaching can best serve students in a third grade classroom for reading comprehension. A curriculum was developed to help the classroom teacher find a better way to teach reading comprehension using four important reading strategies: predicting, summarzing, clarifying and questioning. Several mediated tools were developed to enhance reading comprehension with clear explanations on how to implement Reciprocal Teaching with the current curriculum and California Standards on comprehension.
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Nabbing, Emelie. "”Bara för att man kan läsa så är det ju inte säkert att man har förståelse” : En kvalitativ studie angående hur sex lärare i årskurs 2 beskriver att de arbetar med lässtrategier." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-30838.
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Läsförståelse är något som visats vara nödvändigt vid angripande av texter i samtliga ämnen av grundskolan (Alatalo, 2011). Trots dess betydelse har undersökning, utförd av Programme for International Student Assessment [PISA] 2012 (refererad i Skolverket, 2013) synliggjort hur svenska elevers läsförståelse sjunkit i jämförelse med tidigare år. Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur sex lärare i årskurs 2 beskriver att lässtrategier används i undervisningen för att utveckla elevers läsförståelse. Studien tar sin utgångspunkt i det sociokulturella perspektivet, vilket gav utrymme att undersöka lärande och utveckling. För att kunna ta del av lärarnas beskrivningar samlades materialet in i form av kvalitativa intervjuer. Resultatet har ordnats i fem teman, sammanhang i olika skolämnen, olika former av gemensamma sammanhang, individuella sammanhang, läraren som verktyg i undervisningen samt olika metoder, modeller och redskap som verktyg i undervisningen. Slutsatsen är att lärarna beskriver att de undervisar i lässtrategier i fler olika sammanhang för att utveckla elevers läsförståelse, däremot framkommer det variation i hur de arbetar med det beroende på vilket sammanhang de undervisar i. Fortsättningsvis visar resultatet att lärarna använder flera olika typer av verktyg i undervisning med lässtrategier, verktygen lyfts fram som avgörande för att elever ska utveckla läsförståelseReading comprehension is something that has been shown to be necessary in processing text in all primary school subjects (Alatalo, 2011). Despite that importance, a survey conducted by the Programme for International Student Assessment [PISA] 2012 (referenced in Skolverket, 2013) shows that the reading comprehension of Swedish pupils has dropped, in comparison with previous investigations. The purpose of this study is to examine how six teachers in second grade describe how reading strategies are used in teaching to develop pupils’ reading comprehension. The study is based on the sociocultural perspective, which gave space to do research about learning and developing. The material was gathered through qualitative interviews in order to take part of the teachers’ descriptions. The result has been organized in five themes; context in different subjects, different forms of joint connection, individual context and the teacher as a tool in teaching and different methods, models and gear as tools in teaching. The conclusion is that the teachers describe that they are teaching reading strategies in different contexts to develop their students' reading comprehension. It also reveals that the variation in how they work with the reading strategies depends on the context in which they teach. Henceforth, the result shows that the teachers use several different types of tools in teaching reading strategies, tools that the teachers highlighted as crucial for students to develop reading comprehension.
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Dixon, Robyn. "What can TOLs reveal about the nature of ESL reading? : a critical evaluation of current ESL research utilising think-aloud protocols." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003709.
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This thesis explores the efficacy of think-aloud protocols (TOLs), and the extent to which the TOL technique is able to reveal the nature of ESL reading interaction with expository prose. The investigation constituted a critical evaluation of current ESL TOL research, which was essentially a theoretical examination of emerging problems derived from an in-depth assessment of current ESL TOL studies. The theoretical examination was supplemented by the practical implementation of the technique in a case study research, utilising three verbal protocols obtained from ESL students at the University of Fort Hare. The close observation afforded by the evaluative case study research paradigm provided the writer - as participant observer - with a further means of judging the merit of TOLs, which corroborated findings from the theoretical evaluation, and enabled a consideration of unanticipated issues which emerged from the practical implementation of the technique. The conclusion was that TOLs seem to have a unique ability to identify aspects of the nature of ESL reading gained from an on-line assessment of reader interaction, provided that TOL research is conducted within certain methodological and analytic research constraints. The writer has proffered suggestions for future ESL TOL research, and feels that the combination of TOL research findings with other measures of reading comprehension could elucidate aspects of ESL comprehension, making a valuable contribution to ESL reading theory and practice.
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Sarasti, Israel A. Laney James Duke. "The effects of reciprocal teaching comprehension-monitoring strategy on 3rd grade students' reading comprehension." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-3919.
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Wisaijorn, Patareeya, and n/a. "Teaching reading comprehension to Thai EFL students: Reciprocal Teaching Procedure." University of Canberra. Professional Communication, 2003. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20050802.140230.
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The main purpose of this study was to examine the effects of strategy training
in small group work on the reading comprehension of academic
texts in English by Thai English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students.
The strategy-training used was the Reciprocal Teaching Procedure (RTF)
which focused on the four reading comprehension strategies: predicting,
clarifying, questioning and summarizing.
The research study was an experimental one using a single group design.
The participants were thirty-four first year students enrolled in the English
for Academic Purposes (EAP) program at a tertiary institution in the
northeastern part of Thailand. Both quantitative and qualitative research
methods were used. The pre-, post- and follow-up reading tests were
employed for quantitative analysis. The students' performances were
analyzed for statistically significant differences immediately at the end of
the ten-week training and in the follow-up test eight weeks after the
training. Qualitative data were collected from students' pre-, post- and
follow-up questionnaires, checklists and journals, teacher's checklists and
journal, and independent observer's checklists and field notes.
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Cox, Linda Carol. "Teaching vocabulary through integrated curriculum improves reading comprehension." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2626.
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This investigation was designed to determine if teaching vocabulary through integrating English and Social Studies curricula would provide tenth grade students who are poor readers with strategies to improve their reading comprehension. The strategies used were designed to support struggling readers and English language development students to connect denotative and connotative meanings of words found in the novel Animal Farm to their social studies class' content.
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Benosa, Kathlyn Garcia. "Increasing comprehension strategies through reciprocal teaching." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3174.
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The purpose of the study was twofold. First, it describes two research-based instructional strategies that have been effective in increasing reading comprehension (reciprocal teaching and using readers' response journals). Second, a quasi-experimental research design was created to determine the educational impact of these two strategies on the reading comprehension levels of elementary-aged English Language Learners (ELLs). The data was collected from a low socioeconomic elementary school, specifically looking at a second grade classroom. The classroom demographic included eighteen students, ten of which were English Language Learners. Both informal and formal assessments were used to determine growth across time. The overall findings gleaned from the formal assessments revealed that the ELLs significantly increased their reading comprehension scores by 12%. Using both strategies has demonstrated not only the increase in reading comprehension with non-English speaking students but also with English-speaking students.
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Sarasti, Israel A. "The Effects of Reciprocal Teaching Comprehension-monitoring Strategy on 3Rd Grade Students' Reading Comprehension." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3919/.
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Reciprocal teaching comprehension-monitoring is a reading comprehension instructional procedure that combines four instructional strategies: predicting, summarizing, questioning, and clarifying to enhance students' comprehension of text. The procedure is a dialogue between the teacher and the students. During reciprocal teaching instruction, the teacher and students take turns leading the dialogue in order to enhance the students' comprehension-monitoring skills. The research on reciprocal teaching has included meta-analyses, group designs, qualitative designs, and single-subject research designs. These studies have identified gaps in the literature to include the measurement of treatment fidelity and treatment acceptability, as well as the psychometric properties of the instruments used to measure daily reading comprehension growth. These gaps were investigated in this study. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of reciprocal teaching comprehension-monitoring with a group of fifteen 3rd grade students reading at grade level. Specifically, this study investigated the use of curriculum-based measurement maze probes (CBM-maze probes) to formatively assess the reading comprehension growth of the students. Additionally, this study implemented treatment integrity procedures and investigated the acceptability of reciprocal teaching and the CBM-maze probes through a treatment acceptability rating scale. A multiple baseline across groups with three phases (baseline, intervention, follow-up) was employed. Overall, visual analysis of the data suggested reciprocal teaching was an effective intervention in increasing reading comprehension abilities in students as measured by the CBM-maze probes. All three groups exhibited continual growth on the daily comprehension measures across all three phases. Implications for practice, cautions in interpreting the results, and future directions are discussed.
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Cheung, Sze-kei Karen, and 張思琪. "Enhancing students' reading comprehension throughpicture-book." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B50176699.
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是次研究為了討論繪本教學能否提升學生的閱讀能力，學生在閱讀繪本，透過觀察圖畫推測故事情節。配合閱讀策略，提問不同層次的閱讀問題，引導學生理解故事內容。
研究對象來自研究者任教小學，是三年級學生。研究開始時，研究對象要先作答閱讀測試作為前測。研究者便設計相關的繪本教學，並與研究對象一起閱讀繪本教材及進行不同層次的閱讀活動，讓研究對象對繪本故事內容進行推測、解釋、評鑑。教學後，研究對象要完閱讀測試作為後測。最後收集數據及教學資料進行分析。
根據數據分析，研究者發現以下兩項結論：
1. 繪本教學能提升學生的閱讀理解能力。
2. 繪本教學能有效地讓學生在閱讀中推測故事情節。
The purpose of this study is to discuss the effect of the picture book teaching approach, which can help the student increase the ability of reading comprehension. The students’ reading comprehension and the student responses to story reading were explored. The student responses to reading picture books and to reading strategies were investigated.
The participants in this study were thirty-five Primary 3 students from the researcher’s school. First, the participants answered the pre-test of reading comprehension. Second, the researcher and participants read the picture book together. The researcher also asked the different level of comprehension questions about the picture book. The participants were guessing the content, finding information, understanding words and solving the problem. After the two learning cycles, the participants took the post-test of reading comprehension. Finally, the data was collected, computed and analyzed by the researcher.
Based on the data analyses, the findings of the study are summarized as follows:
1. The Picture Book Approach was improving students’ reading comprehension.
2. The Picture Book Approach had a positive effect on the student responses to perception of reading.published_or_final_version
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Ng, Mei-ha Helen. "The reciprocal teaching approach : a case study reflecting on readers' needs in developing reading comprehension ability and insights into teaching methods /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21161008.
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Duggal, Nitu. "Investigation of effectiveness of approaches to teaching reading comprehension." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610648.
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Sauber, Andrea. "Sleep and Its Relationship with Reading Comprehension." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1269030966.
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Mellen, Brad. "Teaching reading in China : phonics versus whole word /." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25262774.
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Smith, Mahlon A. "A study of the teaching methods of comprehension through isolation and context." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1986. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/325.
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Leeper, Lauri M. "Effective reading comprehension teaching and research: How do they relate." W&M ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1550154114.
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Pennington, Dianne. "Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension to Children of Migrant Workers." ScholarWorks, 2020. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7950.
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A high percentage of migrant students are not meeting state content standards in readability and legibility within a small independent school district located in California's Central Valley. Prior research indicates that if a student is not proficient in reading skills by the 5th grade, academic success will not be attained effecting the student, parents, educators, and economics of the community. The purpose of this exploratory qualitative case study was to explore the teaching strategies that were used to help migrant students increase their reading comprehension skills. This study has its theoretical basis in the learning theories of Dewey, Slavin, and Yousevand which hold that students need to be active participants in the learning process. This case study was guided by the following areas of inquiry: (a) identifying training and strategies used by teachers, (b) identifying the specific obstacles, (c) identifying methodologies, and (d) how these methodologies address the specific challenges of migrant children. A semi-structured interview schedule, observations of 5 Language Arts classes, and field notes were used as data collection tools. Interviews were conducted and included 5 English teachers, 1 principal, 1 guidance counselor, and 1 community liaison. The data were analyzed and coded with common themes. The key results confirmed (a) varied teacher perceptions of differentiated instruction, (b) language and cultural barriers, (c) lack of knowledge and vocabulary, (d) minimal parent involvement, and (e) financial issues and mobile lifestyle. This project study informed specific recommendations for a Saturday computer lab incorporating computer-assisted instruction. The outcomes of this study have implications for social change for migrant and ELL students by empowering them to more effectively participate and make positive contributions to the global community.
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Dahdouli, Mona, and Heba El-Janoudi. "English reading instruction and comprehension in grade 6." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-35611.
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The aim of this degree project is to examine how three 6th grade teachers implement reading instruction in their lessons. Furthermore, the aim is to investigate how they describe their work with reading comprehension. Our investigation is based on qualitative semi- structured interviews and observations. The results indicate that teachers do not explicitly teach reading strategies. Furthermore, teachers showed an awareness of students’ interests and took them into consideration during the lessons. For instance, the teachers argued that in order to motivate students to read, they must be provided with interesting texts. The findings also showed that all teachers emphasizes vocabulary and they argue that the bigger the vocabulary is, the more effortless reading becomes.
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Diehl, Holly L. "The effects of the reciprocal teaching framework on strategy acquisition of fourth-grade struggling readers." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2005. https://etd.wvu.edu/etd/controller.jsp?moduleName=documentdata&jsp%5FetdId=3840.
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Thesis (Ed. D.)--West Virginia University, 2005Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 177 p. : ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-162).
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Williams, Heather Cynthia. "Use of read alouds to increase reading comprehension." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3071.
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There is a shift from learning to read towards reading to learn beginning in the fourth grade. This project focuses on the use of read alouds to teach concepts such as inference, generalization, and drawing conclusions to increase reading comprehension in fourth graders.
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Decker, Morgan. "To read or not to read a comprehensive study of effective reading and methods of teaching reading /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2007. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.
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Swanepoel, Nadia. "Teaching English reading comprehension to Grade 2 First Additional Language learners." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60983.
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English reading comprehension is an educational challenge worldwide. This study investigated how Grade 2 teachers teach English reading comprehension to First Additional Language (FAL) learners at three selected independent schools in Gauteng where the language of learning and teaching (LoLT) is English. Three English medium independent schools in Gauteng, South Africa participated in the study. The participants at each research site consisted of Grade 2 teachers (main participants) and Grade 2 learners (secondary participants). Grade 2 teachers were selected purposively on the criteria that they had taught for more than two years and were teaching English reading comprehension to Grade 2 FAL learners.
This study followed a qualitative approach, and was situated within the interpretivist paradigm. The research design accommodated a case study. The conceptual framework was based on the revised taxonomy by Krathwohl and Anderson for questioning which integrated the role of the teacher in a reading lesson. The three stages of reading, before reading, during reading and after reading were divided into the different levels of thinking and reasoning as suggested in Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) theory.
The data collection strategies were semi-structured interviews with Grade 2 teachers; observing reading lessons they gave; and keeping a journal in which personal reflections on the investigation into teaching and learning practices were documented. Once data was collected, the recordings of the semi-structured interviews were transcribed. The observation checklists and the reflection journal entries were analysed. Data was analysed using a coding process and five themes and twelve sub-themes emerged.
The findings show that the interactive approach was common in the teaching of English reading comprehension. However, parental involvement, the availability of the trained teachers and appropriate resources were necessary. A learner's individual reading needs and reasoning ability have to be considered through the use of differentiated teaching practices. Questioning throughout the reading process improves a learner's understanding of the text.Die leesbegrip van Engels is 'n wêreldwye uitdaging. Hierdie studie het ondersoek hoe Graad 2-onderwysers onderrig in leesbegrip in Engels aan leerders van Engels as Eerste Addisionele Taal gee by drie uitgesoekte onafhanklike skole in Gauteng waar die taal van leer en onderrig (TLO) Engels is. Drie onafhanklike Engelsmediumskole in Gauteng, Suid-Afrika het aan die studie deelgeneem. By elke skool was die deelnemers Graad 2-onderwysers (hoofdeelnemers) en Graad 2-leerders (sekondêre deelnemers). Graad 2-onderwysers is doelbewus gekies op grond van die kriterium dat hulle langer as twee jaar onderrig gegee het en ten tye van die studie Graad 2-EAT-leerders onderrig het. Die studie volg 'n kwalitatiewe benadering binne die interpretivistiese paradigma. Die navorsingsontwerp behels 'n gevallestudie. Die konseptuele raamwerk is gebaseer op Krathwohl en Anderson se hersiene taksonomie van vraagstelling wat die onderwyser se rol in 'n leesles integreer. Die drie leesstadia voor, gedurende en na lees word in die verskillende vlakke van lees en redenering verdeel, soos wat in Vygotsky se teorie van die Sone van Naaste Ontwikkeling (ZPD) aan die hand gedoen word. As dataversamelingstrategieë is semigestruktureerde onderhoude met Graad 2-onderwysers gevoer, lesse waargeneem en 'n joernaal gehou waarin persoonlike besinning oor die ondersoek van onderrig- en leerpraktyke gedokumenteer is. Na dataversameling is die opnames van die semigestruktureerde onderhoude getranskribeer. Die waarnemings-kontrolelyste en die inskrywings in die besinningsjoernaal is ontleed. Data is met behulp van 'n koderingsproses ontleed, wat vyf temas en twaalf subtemas na vore gebring het. Daar is bevind dat die interaktiewe benadering algemeen in die onderrig van leesbegrip van Engels gebruik word. Die betrokkenheid van ouers, beskikbaarheid van opgeleide onderwysers en geskikte hulpbronne was egter noodsaaklik. Leerders se individuele leesbehoeftes en redeneringsvermoë moet by wyse van gedifferensieerde onderrigpraktyke in aanmerking geneem word. Leerders se begrip van die teks verbeter wanneer vrae in die loop van die leesproses gestel word.
Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2016.
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Cates-Darnell, Denise Michelle. "Three key factors that influence reading comprehension." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2160.
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This study explores the factors that influence the ways in which intermediate students learn comprehension strategies. A substantial scholarship offers evidence of the success of three factors: the teacher, Support structures, and the efficacy of the specific comprehension strategies taught.
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Cox-Magno, Natasha. "Metacognitive Reading Strategy and Emerging Reading Comprehension in Students With Intellectual Disabilities." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4916.
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Historically, students with intellectual disabilities (ID) have low reading comprehension skills that can impede their overall academic success. There is a gap in practice regarding the identification and effective use of evidence-based reading comprehension instructional strategies for students with ID. Guided by Piaget's and Vygotsky's constructivist theories, the purpose of this study was to test the effectiveness of a metacognitive reading strategy on the emerging reading comprehension (ERC) skills of kindergarten students with ID. A single-participant, multiple baseline design with graphical visual analysis was used across 4 kindergarten students with ID to illustrate the influence of the reading intervention. All 4 kindergarten students showed increases in their ERC skills after the completion of the intervention. An effect-size statistic was calculated to measure the improvement in percentage rate of correct responses between each participant's baseline and intervention phase. The effect-size results indicated a 60% to 80% improvement rate difference. Therefore, for these kindergartners, the metacognitive reading strategy significantly increased the ERC skills of the participants. The implications for social change include providing teachers with effective metacognitive instructional strategies for ERC skills and for improving ERC skills among students with ID, thus, allowing ID students greater opportunity to benefit from curriculum and instruction over time.
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Fredricks, Sharon. "The Effectiveness of Semantic Mapping on Reading Comprehension." PDXScholar, 1993. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4667.
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It is the goal of all reading instructors to use techniques that will enhance reading comprehension. This is certainly no less so in the second language classroom. Studies have shown that readers possess schemata for text structure that is activated during the reading process. It has also been shown that a reader's textual schemata may be culturally influenced and that second language students may possess textual schemata that conflicts or interferes with the structure of the text making comprehension more difficult. For this reason, second language learners may benefit from explicit instruction in text structure and content relationships. Semantic mapping is a text organization strategy which may be used to explicate text structure and content relationships with both expository prose and fiction. The purpose of this study was to use semantic mapping to explicate the structure and content of short fiction and to measure the effect, if any, on comprehension. For the purposes of this study, comprehension was defined two ways: (1) recognition comprehension, which is the ability to retain and recall factual detail from text content, and (2) comprehension as evidenced by the use of certain critical thinking skills, i.e., elaboration and supplementation in forming written responses. Two hypotheses were posed: 1. The use of semantic mapping will result in an increase in recognition comprehension by a treatment group of English as a second language readers using a semantic mapping strategy, as compared to a control group using an advance organizer, based on a combination multiple choice and true/ false quiz. 2. The use of semantic mapping will result in greater use of elaboration and supplementation by a treatment group of English as a second language readers using a semantic mapping strategy, as compared to a control group using an advance organizer, based on an analysis of a quiz requiring written responses. In order to determine the results of this study, .t-tests were used to compare the mean scores between groups. In the case of recognition comprehension, the group receiving the treatment, semantic mapping, did score significantly higher than the control group. In the case of comprehension, as evidenced by the use of elaborations and supplementations in written responses, the group which used semantic mapping showed a higher level of use, but the difference was not statistically significant. A Mann-Whitney U test ranked the subjects' scores individually on an ordinal scale and then compared the means between groups. In the case of elaborations the treatment group showed a significantly higher level of use. However, there was no corresponding significant difference in the case of supplementations.
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Nicholls, Kristine Dianne. "A correlational study of reading comprehension in Spanish and English." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1999. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1845.
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Piyanukool, Surachai. "Effects of Teaching Reading Through Discussion of Text Structures." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2001. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3035/.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of teaching reading through discussion of text structures on students' reading comprehension. The design of the study was a Pretest-Posttest Control-Group Design. One hundred twenty-six sophomore and senior Thai college students majoring in English and attending afternoon English classes participated in the 10-week study and were randomly assigned to an experimental group and a control group. The experimental group received reading instruction in the characteristics of narrative and expository text structures and how to discuss the details of story by applying knowledge of text structures. The control group, on the other hand, read each story silently by themselves and answered comprehension questions. The posttest means of the two groups were compared, and a t test was used to test the significance difference of the means. The results did not reveal any differences between the means. The short time of the intervention may be a crucial factor that made the two strategies yield the same effects. However, the survey responses showed the participants liked reading through discussion of text structures more than reading by themselves.
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Poswa, Mandisa. "History reading comprehension in black secondary schools : a Ciskei study." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003437.
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This thesis examines briefly the problems of learning and understanding history when the subject is taught through the medium of a second language. It assesses the difficulty levels (for first language speakers) of the history textbooks commonly used in Ciskei secondary schools and considers the implications of these levels for second language speakers. It assesses the ability of 400 pupils in standard 8 and standard 10 to comprehend an English text which is deliberately written at a lower level of difficulty than that of the current secondary school texts. Comparisons are made of the comprehension scores of those pupils whose answers are written in English with those who are allowed to answer in Xhosa on questions based on the simple text. Finally, it compares the quality of the pupils' answers in Xhosa and English. Tentative recommendations are made about the language implications of history teaching which emerge from the results of the research.
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Currie, Laura-Ann. "A metacognitive approach to teaching reading comprehension in the primary school classroom." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1998. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21536.
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The following thesis considers the relevance of motacognitive theory to the development of children's reading comprehension. It does so by evaluating the effects of a metacomprehension training programme on children's reading comprehension. In so doing the thesis draws together the three strands of theory, teaching practice, and educational policy (i. e., 5-14 English Language Guidelines, SOED, 1991) within the context of a Scottish primary school classroom. A pilot study was designed to investigate whether or not children were currently being taught metacomprehension strategies. The pilot study therefore, looked at children's metacomprehension development using two different teaching media: one where a novel was used as the vehicle for improving children's reading comprehension and another where a mainstream reading scheme was used for the same purpose. No differences were found between the two teaching conditions and it was inferred that children were not currently being taught metacomprehension strategies. As a consequence of the results from the pilot study, the main research programme was designed to address two main research questions: 1. Can children be taught metacomprehension strategies by teachers? 2. Are there greater benefits for poor, as compared with good, readers? To investigate these questions a four stage research programme was undertaken comprising: I. the development of a metacomprehension teaching programme (Mr. Homunculus the Reading Detective). II. the instruction of teachers in metacomprehension theory, and in Mr. Homunculus the Reading Detective Ill. the application of the intervention programme by teachers to a group of Primary 5 children (mean age 9yrs 6mths), using a randomised controlled pre/post test design. IV. the evolution and refinement of appropriate metacomprehension measures Results were encouraging, suggesting that children could be taught to self-monitor and to regulate their reading behaviour. What was not clear was whether or not the children had improved their inferential comprehension as a result. A model of metacomprehension development based on the data obtained from the study was presented. Further elucidation of metacomprehension development, the specific effects of such development on reading comprehension for readers of different ages and reading ability, and better measures which tap the process, rather than the product of metacomprehension, were considered as worthy of further research.
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Williams, Theresa D. "High School Science Teachers' Perceptions of Teaching Content-Related Reading Comprehension Instruction." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2277.
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In order to achieve academic success, students must be able to comprehend written material in content-area textbooks. However, a large number of high school students struggle to comprehend science content. Research findings have demonstrated that students make measurable gains in comprehending content-area textbooks when provided quality reading comprehension instruction. The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of how high school science teachers perceived their responsibility to provide content-related comprehension instruction and 10 high school science teachers were interviewed for this study. Data analysis consisted of open, axial, and selective coding. The findings revealed that 8 out of the 10 participants believed that it is their responsibility to provide reading comprehension. However, the findings also revealed that the participants provided varying levels of reading comprehension instruction as an integral part of their science instruction. The potential for positive social change could be achieved by teachers and administrators. Teachers may use the findings to reflect upon their own personal feelings and beliefs about providing explicit reading comprehension. In addition to teachers' commitment to reading comprehension instruction, administrators could deliberate about professional development opportunities that might improve necessary skills, eventually leading to better comprehension skills for students and success in their education.
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Goyette, Els Spekkens. "The effects of dictionary usage on text comprehension." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=40129.
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The ability of dictionaries, either in printed or electronic form, to enhance text comprehension has not been systematically investigated. Consequently, in order to investigate whether dictionary support improves text comprehension, this study compared readers' first-language (L1) and second-language (L2) text comprehension across three dictionary conditions and two proficiency levels. Recall, dictionary usage and reading times were the measures employed. Subjects were anglophone members of the Canadian Armed Forces military personnel with high-intermediate to advanced French second-language skills.Procedural texts were used: subjects read both an L1 and an L2 text in each of three conditions: (a) no dictionary access; (b) access to hard-copy dictionaries; and (c) access to on-line computerized dictionaries. The number of words looked up varied greatly by language, by proficiency level and by dictionary modality, with a far greater number of words accessed in L2 than in L1, by intermediate- than by advanced-level readers and in the on-line rather than in the hard-copy dictionary condition. The variance in dictionary usage was explained by the two-way interactions between language, proficiency level and dictionary condition.
Reading times were higher for intermediate-level readers than for advanced-level readers, and when L2 rather than L1 texts were read. These reading time results are consistent with the patterns of dictionary consultation, where intermediate L2 reading produced the most look-ups.
Most readers expressed a preference for on-line dictionaries, reporting that the ease of access led to faster and better text comprehension, but this impression was not confirmed by the findings. Analyses of recall protocols indicated that there was no main effect for the type of dictionary consulted. Similar levels of recall were found on all passages read with access to dictionaries, regardless of the language of presentation. Significantly lower recalls were found on passages read with no access to dictionaries, with L2 recall lower than L1 recall. This study indicates that the type of dictionary accessed does not significantly influence comprehension. The high number of L2 dictionary look-ups does suggest that readers may use dictionaries to compensate for weaker second language vocabulary skills, resulting in similar levels of text comprehension across languages.
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Ming, Wing-chuen, and 明永泉. "Effectiveness of teaching expository text structure reading strategy in developing F.6 students' reading comprehensionability." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B48368556.
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本研究旨在探討教授學生說明文結構閱讀策略，能否提升預科學生閱讀理解的能力。參與本研究共26名中六文科女學生。本研究採用前實驗設計的單組前測----後測設計，學生在前測和後測之間接受「說明文結構閱讀策略」教學，教學內容包括認識六種說明文結構模式、各種結構模式的標示語及結構圖。本研究對學生進行兩次訪談，了解學生在進行閱讀評估時所運用的策略及遇到的問題，並了解學生對運用說明文結構閱讀策略的看法。
研究結果顯示：教授學生說明文結構閱讀策略，能提升預科學生閱讀理解的能力。學生學習「說明文結構閱讀策略」，對提升「概括文意」的閱讀理解的能力成效最為顯著，對提升「根據文意理解詞義」的閱讀能力亦有顯著成效，對提升「擷取重要信息」及「綜合資料分析推斷」的閱讀能力的成效則未見顯著。就提升不同閱讀能力程度的學生的閱讀理解能力方面，教授「說明文結構閱讀策略」對中等程度和程度較低的學生的成效顯著。另從訪談得知，學生普遍覺得高考中國語文及文化科閱讀理解試卷十分困難。跨篇章設問的考核形式，亦會增加試題的難度。學生大都認為學習「說明文結構閱讀策略」，對閱讀說明文有很大幫助。
根據本研究的發現，研究者提出一些教學建議：(1)學習材料宜由淺入深，讓學生更容易掌握各種說明文結構模式；(2)每一次只宜教授一種結構模式，以免學生感到混亂；(3)指導學生學習時，可以運用不同的教學策略，如讀寫結合。
This research investigates the effectiveness of teaching expository text structure reading strategy in developing S6 students’ reading ability. The 26 participants in this research are F6 female arts group students. This research adopts the one-group pretest-posttest design of the pre-experimental design. Students received training in expository text structure reading strategy training between two tests. The teaching content includes six expository text structures, signal words and graphic organizers. This research also interviewed the students two times to investigate what strategies they had used and their problems in the reading comprehension tests, and to investigate their opinion of using expository text structure reading strategy.
According to the result, teaching expository text structure reading strategyimprovesS6 students’ reading ability. There is significant difference in the comprehension ability of summary, there is significant difference in the comprehension ability of decoding meaning of words according to the text content, too. But there are no significant difference in the comprehension ability of retrieving information and synthesis of information, analyse and infer. In the developing the reading ability of students of different level of reading ability, teaching expository text structure reading strategy has significant effects to the students of mid-level and low level reading ability. According to the interviews, students complain that the CLC reading comprehension question paper is very difficult, especially the cross text questions. Students agreed that learning expository text structure reading strategy is helpful in reading expository text.
Form the findings in this research, researcher suggests: 1. learning material should be arrange from easy to difficult, so the students will learn the expository text structure easily. 2. Teach expository text structures one by one, to avoid the students from misunderstanding. 3. Using different teaching strategies, for example, read and write.published_or_final_version
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Matthews, Mona Magda. "Xhosa-speaking learners reading comprehension in English first additional language : a reading intervention at a township high school." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/86284.
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Thesis (MEd)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study focuses on the effect of a reading strategy instruction research intervention on Grade 8 isiXhosa-speaking learners‘ comprehension of English reading texts at a township high school. Throughout the years, South Africans have become increasingly aware of the poor literacy levels of the learners. Results from National Assessment Studies e.g., Annual National Assessments and Systemic Evaluation Assessment, performed annually by the Department of Education, as well as International Assessment Studies e.g., Southern African Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ III, 2007 and Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS 2006), confirm that our learners cannot read for meaning and therefore reading comprehension, is a severe concern. The Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS, 2011) places reading under three phases (pre-reading, reading and post-reading), however, it fails to place explicit focus on training teachers to instruct reading comprehension. With English becoming increasingly the language of instruction for non-English first language speakers (as in the case of the isiXhosa-speaking learners at the research school), there is a growing need to provide learners with techniques that will equip them to construct meaning from texts. This study, therefore, addresses the need for reading comprehension through the use of pre-selected, research-based reading strategies, that can be taught to the learners to improve their meaning-making efforts during the reading process. The reading strategies together with selected reading instruction activities aim to provide learners and teachers alike with sufficient guidance for implementing reading strategies and in the case of teachers, to encourage a sustained change in their comprehension instruction. This study applies a mixed-method methodology for gathering both quantitative and qualitative data. The purpose of the quantitative data is firstly to provide baseline data of reading-related abilities for learners before the implementation of the intervention, and secondly, to provide comparative data of strategy transfer after the intervention. The qualitative data is gathered through observations of the implementation of the reading strategies during the intervention, participants‘ journals and through samples of participants‘ work. The data aim to provide rich, in-depth data about how the participants in the research took on reading strategy instruction and the factors that influenced them. This study identified a number of issues: [1] participants‘ understanding of the content of the presented English reading texts during the intervention, [2] participants‘ low literacy levels, [3] participants‘ uptake of the concept of dealing with the different strategies while engaging with a text and [4] the school as a research site that affect reading strategy instruction to Grade 8 isiXhosa-speaking learners in a multilingual environment, but also highlighted the importance of continued implementation of reading instruction as crucial to its success. The findings of this study created a platform for teachers to instruct reading comprehension in different content subjects and provide learners with a selection of reading strategies that they can apply in making meaning of texts they encounter in different subject areas.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die studie fokus op die uitwerking van 'n leesstrategie onderrigintervensie wat onderrig word aan Graad 8 isiXhosa-sprekende leerders ter verbetering van hulle begrip van Engelse tekste by 'n plaaslike hoërskool. Deur die jare het Suid Afrikaners al hoe meer bewus geword van die kommerwekkende lae geletterdheidsvlakke van die leerders. Resultate van nasionale evaluering studies, byvoorbeeld, die Jaarlikse Nasionale Assessering en Sistemiese Evalueringtoetse, wat jaarliks uitgevoer word deur die Departement van Onderwys, asook internasionale evaluering studies, byvoorbeeld, Suidelike Afrikaanse Konsortium vir Monitering Opvoedkundige Kwaliteit (SACMEQ III, 2007) en Progressie in Internasionale Lees Geletterdheidstudie (PIRLS, 2006), bevestig dat ons leerders nie sinvol kan lees nie en derhalwe het hulle bevind dat leesbegrip 'n ernstige bron van kommer is. Die Kurrikulum en Assessering Beleidsverklaring (KABV, 2011), plaas lees onder drie fases (voor-lees, lees en na-lees), maar dit laat na om eksplisiete fokus te plaas op die opleiding van onderwysers om leesbegrip te onderrig. Met Engels wat toenemend die taal van onderrig vir nie-Engelssprekende eerstetaalleerders word (soos in die geval van isiXhosa-sprekende leerders by die navorsingskool), is daar 'n toenemende behoefte om leerders toe te rus met tegnieke om betekenis uit tekste te skep. Hierdie studie maak gebruik van voorafgeselekteerde, navorsingsgebaseerde leesstrategieë waarin leerders onderrig kan word ter verbetering van hulle pogings om betekenis te maak tydens die leesproses. Beide die leesstrategieë en geselekteerde leesonderrigaktiwiteite poog daarin om voldoende leiding te verskaf aan leerders sowel as onderwysers om die leesstrategieë te implementeer. Dit poog ook verder om volgehoue verandering in leesbegrip onderrig by onderwysers aan te moedig. Die studie maak gebruik van 'n gemengde-metode metodologie vir die insameling van kwantitatiewe en kwalitatiewe data. Die doel van die kwantitatiewe data is eerstens om basisdata oor leesverwante vermoëns van leerders vóór die implementering van die intervensie te verskaf, en tweedens dien dit as vergelykbare data van strategie metingsoordrag ná die intervensie. Die kwalitatiewe data is versamel deur waarnemings gedurende die implementering van leesstrategieë tydens die intervensie, dagboek- inskrywings van navorsingsleerders asook voorbeelde van leerders se werk. Die data verskaf ryk, diepgaande data oor die manier waarop die deelnemers die onderrig van leesstrategieë aangeneem het en die faktore wat hulle beïnvloed het. Die studie het 'n aantal kwessies: [1] deelnemers se begrip van die inhoud van Engelse leestekste gedurende die intervensie, [2] deelnemers se lae geletterheidsvlakke, [3] aanvaarding van leesstrategie-onderrig deur die leerders en [4] die skool as navorsingsplek identifiseer wat leesstrategieonderrig aan Graad 8 isiXhosa-sprekende leerders in 'n meertalige omgewing beïnvloed, maar terselfdertyd het dit die belangrikheid van volgehoue implementering van leesonderrig beklemtoon as onontbeerlik vir die sukses daarvan. Die bevindings van die studie het 'n platform daargestel vir onderwysers om leesbegrip in verskillende inhoudsvakke te onderrig, asook 'n seleksie van leesstrategieë wat leerders kan toepas in hulle poging om betekenis te maak van tekste waarmee hulle in verskillende vakinhoude te doen kry.
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Cuevas, Joshua A. "Applied Cognition in Reading: An Analysis of Reading Comprehension in Secondary School Students." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/epse_diss/70.
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This research sought to add to a body of knowledge that is severely underrepresented in the scientific literature, reading comprehension in secondary students. Chapter 1 examines the current state of literacy in the nation’s public schools and the consequences that arise if students leave high school with inadequate reading skills. It discusses the neurological processes involved with reading and posits that independent silent reading (ISR) combined with scaffolding techniques may prove to be an effective method for addressing reading comprehension. The review also analyzes the components believed to be essential to reading, including vocabulary development, prior knowledge and background information, inferencing and prediction, and cognitive and metacognitive strategies. It argues that technological tools may have the potential to address these components within the framework of ISR. Chapter 2 details the experiment that tested these hypotheses. The study implemented an ISR program across a 5-month semester in a public high school and included 145 participants from nine 10th grade literature classes. The control group took part in no ISR, one treatment group participated in weekly ISR read from a textbook, and another treatment group participated in weekly ISR read from a computer module designed to address the components of reading comprehension. Students were measured on multiple achievement and motivational assessments. Results indicated that students from the ISR groups made greater gains than the control group in total reading ability, reading comprehension, end-of-course reading scores, and success/ability attribution, but no differences emerged on the vocabulary assessment. The computer module ISR group performed similarly in most respects to the textbook ISR group, but students in the computer module ISR group increased in their reading motivation and scored better on the individual reading assignments, suggesting the cognitive tools assisted them in understanding specific material at hand. This research offers much needed data on secondary students’ reading achievement and motivation, and provides evidence for one method, ISR, that has the potential to address development in these areas.
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Coetzee, Ghauderen N. "An intervention to improve reading comprehension for grade 8 learners." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/934.
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Since the official opening of ex-model C (previously whites only) schools to learners of all races, cultures and languages, there has been an influx of black learners into these schools. Reasons for this are that many black parents believe the quality of education and resources available at these ex model C schools is better than those available in township schools (De Klerk, 2000). Parents also believe sending their children to English medium schools enables them to compete and be marketable in the global world of work. This dissertation describes a qualitative case study of grade 8 learners who took part in a six week intervention conducted at a school in the Eastern Cape where they learn through an additional language (English). The purpose of the intervention was to equip these learners with skills to enable them to improve their reading and comprehension in this language. Participation in the intervention was voluntarily, based on a selection conducted of learners who wrote a baseline English assessment test. Assessments done during the intervention suggest that isiXhosa home language learners fare academically weaker than their English and Afrikaans counterparts who learn through the medium of English. This correlates with findings done nationally and internationally with regard to South African learners’ literacy levels. This dissertation looks at the affective and cognitive effects of the intervention on its participants. Literature on how additional language learning should be done is examined, as well as the Language in Education policy of South Africa (1997). Findings from the research suggest the importance of establishing a ‘safe’ teaching and learning environment for learning to take place optimally and indicate that interventions to improve English reading can produce positive results. Furthermore the research provides evidence that explicitly teaching reading strategies can improve the participants’ comprehension and overall language competence. While English, as the language of technology and economics is acknowledged, it is argued in this dissertation that due to a lack of information to make informed choices, parents and learners become victims of the ‘straight for English’ phenomenon, and learners are robbed of an opportunity to reach their academic potential. However, if additional language learning takes place under the ideal conditions, learners can be enabled to become academically equipped to deal with the demands of learning through an additional language. What is essential for the afore-mentioned to materialize is that learners need to be equipped with reading and comprehension skills in their home language first, for these skills to be effective in attaining the ‘other’ language. Also, learners need to be aware of the fact that they carry knowledge in their own language that can and should be used to learn (in) the additional language.
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Stålhandske, Johanna. "Hur effektiva är undervisningsmetoder som inkluderar grundskoleelevers bakgrundskunskaper för deras utveckling av läsförståelse? : En systematisk litteraturstudie." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Pedagogiskt arbete, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-22596.
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The results from the international surveys PISA 2011 and PIRLS 2011 shows that Swedish students have been deteriorating in reading comprehension. The main purpose of this literature study was to do a research review over different methods that intend to increase students’ reading comprehension by including students’ background knowledge. The method that is applied is a systematic literature study. The result of the study shows two bigger specializations of teaching methodics within reading comprehension, strategy oriented, and contextual teaching methods. The difference between these methods is hardly worth mentioning, but the contextual method is proven to be more efficient. Despite this the strategy oriented teaching method is to a great extent more researched. The result also shows that a new orientation within the research of reading comprehension is growing, where the focus is on the teachers’ knowledge and competence, instead of on teaching methods. A conclusion of the study is that all teaching methods that have been presented in the study develop the students’ reading comprehension in an effective way. It is also shown that the teacher has a big responsibility for the development within students’ reading comprehension.Resultaten av de internationella undersökningarna PISA 2011 och PIRLS 2011 visar att de svenska elevernas resultat inom läsförståelse försämrats. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att göra en forskningsöversikt för att kunna ge en fördjupad bild av olika metoder som inkluderar elevers tidigare kunskaper inom läsförståelse, och som anses öka elevernas läsförståelse. Metoden som används är en systematisk litteraturstudie. Resultatet av studien visar på två större inriktningar av undervisningsmetodik inom läsförståelse, strategiinriktad, och innehållsbaseras undervisningsmetodik. Skillnaderna mellan dessa är minimala, men den innehållsbaserade undervisningsmetodiken har visat sig vara lite effektivare. Trots detta är den strategiinriktade undervisningsmetodiken i stor utsträckning mer beforskad. Resultatet visar även att en ny inriktning inom forskningen av läsförståelse växer fram, där fokuset ligger på lärarens kunskaper och kompetens, istället för undervisningsmetoder. En slutsats av studien är att samtliga undervisningsmetoder som presenterats i studien utvecklar elevers läsförståelse på ett effektivt sätt, samt att läraren har ett stort ansvar för elevernas läsförståelseutveckling.
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Lucero, Stephanie Suzanne. "Increasing reading comprehension through mediated joint activity." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1999. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1941.
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Lee, Chun-wah, and 李振華. "Effects of cognitive strategy instruction on reading comprehension foracademically low achieving students." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3196106X.
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Anker, Amanda. "Die oordrag van leesbegripstrategieë in ‘n ondersteuningsprogram na geografie binne ‘n hoër onderwysinstansie." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2493.
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Thesis (MEd (Education))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2016.According to the White Paper for Post-School Education and Training Act (2013), only 15 percent of students in higher education complete their studies successfully. This is well below the international standard of 25 percent for students within a three-year degree course in contact education (residential education). The challenge facing universities is to ensure a higher throughput rate. This study aims to investigate a potential solution to one of the facets of this challenge. One such an initiative is Leesnet, an academic reading comprehension programme, which was implemented within the CPUT, Wellington campus since 2010. It is a reading comprehension strategy programme which aims to promote general academic performance in all content areas. The purpose of this research study is to explore and describe the nature and extent of transfer of reading comprehension strategies from Leesnet to a content area, Geography. A mixed method methodology was used. The qualitative research approach was used to explore and describe participants' descriptions of the nature of transfer of reading comprehension strategies and the quantitative data to explore and describe the extent of transfer of reading comprehension strategies. The study indicated that a degree of positive transfer occurred. It comments on the nature and purpose of the Leesnet programme, but also provides valuable information on participating students' metacognitive processes, highlights the conscious use of reading comprehension strategies and the context under which reading comprehension strategies were transferred. Conclusions and recommendations were made to identify focus areas for further research, to potentially improve transfer of reading comprehension strategies in the existing programme and to offer possible guidelines for the development of similar programmes.
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Klaesson, Frida. "Läsförståelsestrategier – verktyg för att förstå en text : En kvalitativ studie om hur fem lärare använder sig av läsförståelsestrategier för att utveckla elevers läsförståelse." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-44561.
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Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur fem verksamma lärare i årskurs 1-3 använder läsförståelsestrategier i sin undervisning för att utveckla elevers läsförståelse. Utifrån syftet formulerades tre frågeställningar: Vilka läs-förståelsestrategier används av lärarna? I vilka undervisningskontexter används läsförståelse-strategier? Vad anser lärarna vara särskilt viktigt i arbetet med läsförståelsestrategier? Studien är av kvalitativ metod där semistrukturerade intervjuer har genomförts. Informanterna i studien är fem behöriga lärare, verksamma i minst tre år i årskurs 1-3. Det insamlade materialet har transkriberats och analyserats noggrant. Resultatet i studien visar att lärarna använder sig av Läsfixarna som är hämtade ur materialet En läsande klass. Lärarna arbetar varierat med läsförståelsestrategier i undervisningen. De arbetar med högläsning, läsläxa, boksamtal, läsgrupper och ämnesintegrerad läsförståelse. Lärarna anser att diskussion och samtal, stöttning och vägledning, varierade arbetsformer, börja i tid, motivation och repetition är viktiga faktorer i arbetet med läsförståelsestrategier.The aim of the study is to examine how five active teachers in grades 1-3 use reading comprehension strategies in their teaching to develop students’ reading comprehension. Based on the aim, three questions were formulated: What different reading comprehension strategies are used by the teachers? In which teaching context are reading comprehension strategies used? What do the teachers regard as important in the work on reading comprehension strategies? The study is based on a qualitative method where semi-structured interviews have been conducted. The informants in the study are five qualified teachers, active for at least three years in grades 1-3. The collected material has been transcribed and analyzed from a sociocultural perspective. The result of the study shows that teachers use ”Läsfixarna” which is a part of the material ”En läsande klass”. The teachers work in various ways with reading comprehension strategies. They use reading aloud, homework focusing on reading comprehension and reading, book discussions, reading groups and reading comprehension in various school subjects. The teachers believe that discussion and dialogue, scaffolding and guidance, varied working methods, starting in time, motivation and repetition are important factors while working with reading comprehension strategies.
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Bastian, Toni Marie. "Strategies for monolingual instructions to use when teaching reading comprehension to bilingual students." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1742.
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The major finding of this project is that through the use of multiple sign systems, monolingual teachers can support their bilingual students. These strategies employ the use of comprehensible input from the teacher, peer interaction, extended lanuage and activities for the students whose primary focus is to help the students make connections from the text to their own lives.
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Khalil, Adnan M. "The effects of cultural background on reading comprehension of ESL learners." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184861.
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This study investigates the effects of cultural background on reading comprehension of ESL learners. Theoretically, this study emanates from schema theory. That is, the readers' comprehension is believed to be affected by background knowledge. Forty-eight ESL students, sorted into three groups (beginning, intermediate and advanced), were randomly assigned to the treatment, which was the reading of a familiar and unfamiliar, high difficulty and/or low difficulty passages. Procedures included a survey, a pre-test, passages and a post-test. The survey was used to select the two topics for the passages. The pre-test consisted of questions based on both passages. The passages were one familiar and one unfamiliar, and each type was written on two difficulty levels. The post-test was the same test given to the students as a pre-test. The dependent variable was the 20-item multiple choice test based on two passages, "The Weekend" and "Groundhog Day". Two question types were included: (1) literal, and (2) inferential. The data were analyzed using several analyses of variance, t-tests and, for post hoc testing of significance, the Scheffe was utilized. Results indicate that the reading level has an effect on the ESL students' comprehension when reading a culturally different passage. However, passage type (familiar-unfamiliar) and passage difficulty (high difficulty-low difficulty) did not have effects on ESL readers' comprehension.
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Leek, Emma. "Att läsa på, mellan och bortom raderna : En studie om pedagogers attityd till läsförståelseundervisning i grundskolans tidigare år." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för svenska språket (SV), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-53478.
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The aim of this study is to investigate how teachers working in grades 1–3 of secondary school think that reading comprehension should be taught so that the pupils will be able to reach the learning goals in grade 3. The study applies a qualitative method whereby three teachers who worked in the early years of school each took part in a semi- structured interview. An interview guide was used as a data collection instrument and the interviews were documented by audio recording. Collected data were then analysed for meaning content with a phenomenographic approach. The result shows that the most common perception of the concept of reading comprehension is the ability to read between the lines and to retell a text in one’s own words. The view of reading comprehension was also seen to affect the way the teaching is done, and a shared view was found in the way of talking about different texts and asking questions to give the pupils practice in metacognition while reading. The result also shows that the teachers’ differing educational background influences the methods they use when training reading strategies, and the view of reading comprehension also affects how they think assessment should be done.
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Gäfvert, Molly. "Att undervisa i läsförståelse. : En kvalitativ studie om lärares reflektioner kring och undervisning i läsförståelse." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-29127.
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The purpose of this study is to investigate how teachers in grades 1-3 work with reading comprehension in the classroom. This essey will further analyze how they describe the concept poor comprehenders and how they discover if a pupil have bad reading comprehension. I have used the following questions: How do teachers describe the concept poor comprehenders? How do the teachers work with reading comprehension in the classroom? How do the teachers describe how they find out if a pupil have bad reading comprehension? The study is based on a qualitative method with three interviews and three observations. The theories and central concepts that I used is poor comprehenders, reading comprehension, reading comprehension strategies and pedagogical methods. The result shows that the teachers have difficulities of explaining the concept poor comprehenders When comparing which reading comprehension method they use in the teaching, the result shows that they have used similar methods but in different ways. The result also shows that all the teachers in this study believes that it´s hard to find out if a pupil have problems with reading comprehension.
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Foley, Christy Lee. "THE USE OF PREDICTION BY JUNIOR HIGH REMEDIAL READERS IN INDIVIDUALIZED AND SMALL GROUP SETTINGS." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/183911.
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The purpose of the study was to examine the use of a prediction technique during the reading of short stories with surprise endings. Investigated were the effects of instructional setting and content familiarity upon interest, overall reading comprehension, literal comprehension, and inferential comprehension. Verbal predictions and supportive evidence generated at the midpoint and prior the story climax was also examined. The subjects, 54 Chapter I remedial readers in a metropolitan school district in Tucson, Arizona, were randomly assigned to experimental or control groups. The study spanned three days. During this time, the students in the individualized treatment read three stories--one of familiar content, one of neutral content, and one of unfamiliar content. Each subject in this treatment generated hypotheses and support for predictions at both the story midpoint and climax. After each story, individual students completed an interest questionnaire and a comprehension assessment. Those in the group treatment followed the same procedure, with predictions and supportive evidence shared in a small group setting of three. Those in the control group read without predicting. The data analysis yielded these findings: (1) Overall comprehension and literal comprehension were not affected by the prediction treatment or story familiarity. (2) The control group surpassed the interest group on the number of inferential questions answered correctly; both the control group and the group prediction treatment subjects performed better than the individualized prediction treatment subjects on the inferential comprehension items. (3) Both the familiar and the neutral selection were more interesting to the students than the unfamiliar selection. (4) Interest scores for the control, familiar group were substantially higher than those for the group familiar treatment, the group, unfamiliar treatment, and the control, unfamiliar treatment. (5) A relationship did not exist between the interest scores and the total comprehension scores of the three stories. (6) Most predictions at the midpoint and prior to the story climax were inaccurate. (7) Predictions, though diverse, could be categorized into approximately 14 groups at the midpoint and 14 groups at the climax. (8) Most predictions were supported either with textual information or scriptal evidence; seldom were script and text ideas combined.
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Coleman, Mary F. "Promoting reading comprehension competence among English second language high school learners in a disadvantaged community." Diss., 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1138.
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The goal of this research study was to determine whether extensive reading, supported by the
instruction and use of appropriate strategies, would
a) improve learners' comprehension achievement
b) increase academic achievement in English, and
c) promote higher achievement in general academic performance.
One hundred and twenty-one learners participated in this project. Three groups of learners:
extensive readers, less extensive readers and non-extensive readers were identified and
studied. The result indicated that extensive reading not only leads to improved achievement in
comprehension, but that it also leads to improvement in general academic performance in all
subjects across the curriculum; while lack of extensive reading has an adverse effect on both
reading comprehension achievement and general academic performance as a whole.Teacher Education
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Wick, Jennifer Bernadette 1971. "Enhancing young readers' oral reading fluency and metacognitive sophistication : evaluating the effectiveness of a computer mediated self-monitoring literacy tool." 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/13117.
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Hilden, Katherine R. "Process-oriented assessment tools for studying second graders' informational comprehension." Diss., 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1689307741&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3552&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Counseling, Educational Psychology, and Special Education, 2008.Title from PDF t.p. (Proquest, viewed on Aug. 17, 2009) Includes bibliographical references.
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Ortega-Gomez, Maria A. "Teaching metacognitive strategies for reading comprehension." 1987. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/16461310.html.
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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1987.Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 108-117).
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Chang, Weiling, and 張瑋玲. "Teaching Reading Strategies to Enhance Grade Nine Students' Reading Comprehension." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/18680047580164458389.
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The purpose of the study is to investigate the influence on the reading strategy instruction which is conducted to the EFL junior high school students in Taiwan. The study is designed to research whether the strategic instruction is a good direction to help EFL junior high school students in their English learning and explore the students’ responses and change after the instruction. There are two classes of ninth graders which are divided into high achievement and low achievement in study instructed to learn the reading strategies for one semester. Data were collected from questionnaires, interviews, classroom observations and the Basic Competence Test (BCT). The interview and classroom observation could present the need and change of the students. The pre-test and post-test questionnaires and pre and post BCT tests could show the learning situation of the students. Excel and Stata were adopted in this study to calculate the data and analyze the frequency distributions of the reading skills that have been used in the reading process. The students’ questionnaires were also analyzed with the statistical analysis to show the percentages, mean and t-test. Besides, the teacher’s observations were categorized through content analysis. By the finding from the multiple resources of data could cross check with one another and increase their validity and reliability; that is both the qualitative and quantitative methods were employed to collect data to increase the validity and reliability and the results of the study. The major findings of the study were as follows: (1) The reading strategy instruction help students become more strategic and active in learning English and reading; (2) Students think prediction and guessing the unknown words and sentences are useful strategies for them; (3) The reading strategies can facilitate students’ reading proficiency; (4) Students were willing to use these instructed reading strategies during their reading because they found that these strategies can help them to comprehend the article more easily; (5) They discovered that strategies helped them read better because strategies made them comprehend the content of the article easily and effectively; (6) The students really increased their consciousness of strategy use, (7) The reading strategies instruction has changed students in some ways: the students have more positive attitude toward English learning, they have more confidence of learning English, they have more successful experiences in learning English, they have higher motivation on learning English than before, they can apply the reading strategies when they met different problems, they think they could be a good reader and they start to enjoy learning English. The study suggests that reading strategy instruction could be conducted in the EFL classroom because it is not only good for high level achievement students but also for low level achievement students. It can help the students to motivate their English learning and change their attitude toward English. Finally, suggestions for future studies were also recommended.
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WANG, LI-CHING, and 王麗晴. "A Research on Fifth Graders’ Reading Comprehension Ability Influenced by the Teaching of Reading Comprehension Strategies." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/79kxkb.
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A Research on Fifth Graders’ Reading Comprehension Ability Influenced by the Teaching of Reading Comprehension Strategies Abstract This research aimed to explore the influence of teaching reading comprehension strategies to fifth graders’ reading comprehension of the textbook. This research study used quasi- experimental research methods of nonequivalent pretest-posttest control group design. Research participants were two groups of fifth graders at the Cloud Elementary School (pseudo name) in Taichung. Reading comprehension strategies were taught to students at the experimental group while traditional language teaching was used for students at the control group. Teaching lasted for three months. The “Reading Comprehension Screening Test for Second to Sixth Graders” (A) was used as a pretest prior to the experimental teaching. Students’ scores at the pretest were used for analysis of covariance. The “Reading Comprehension Screening Test for Second to Sixth Graders” (B) developed by Ko Hwa-Wei and Chan Yi-ling was used in the post-test to understand if there is significant differences after students receive the teaching of reading comprehension strategies. Based on research findings, this research study concluds with the followings 1. The teaching of reading comprehension strategies shows positive influences on fifth graders’ reading comprehension abilities. (1) Reading comprehension strategies shows statistical significance in improving fifth grade students’ reading comprehension abilities. (2) The impacts of teaching reading comprehension strategy vary in terms of fifth graders’ levels of understanding. First, there is no statistical significance between experimental group and control group students in terms of their “understanding of the meaning of word” and “understanding short paragraph”. Second, there is statistical significance between “combining words and identifying themes” and “understanding a sentence” between experimental group and control group students. 2. Teaching of the reading comprehension strategies shows lasting effects on fifth grade students’ reading comprehension abilities. (1） Experimental group students’ reading comprehension abilities are better than the control group students seven weeks after the experimental teaching finished. (2） Results at the deferring test indicated that there is no difference in terms of “understanding the meaning of words” between control and experimental groups. But experimental group students perform better than control group students in terms of “combining words and identifying themes”, “understanding a sentence” and “understanding short paragraph”. Keywords: Reading Comprehension, Teaching of Reading Comprehension Strategies, Reading Comprehension Ability.