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Marianne L. van Moort; Amy de Bruïne; Paul van den Broek – Reading Teacher, 2025
The Internet has transformed the way we read and the context in which we acquire knowledge. Online reading brings both unique opportunities and challenges. To utilize the full potential of this digital environment and to successfully participate in an online information society, digital reading skills are essential. But what makes online reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Electronic Publishing, Technology Uses in Education, Reading Skills
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Michelle L. Rizzella; Edward J. O'Brien – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
We examined the impact of prospective information on the processing of information occurring within the present timeline of narrative stories. Participants read target sentences that were consistent with events occurring within a protagonist's present timeline but inconsistent with events in the protagonist's future. When prospective information…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Information Processing, Sentences, Memory
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Lucette Lanyon; Ciara Shiggins; Caroline Baker; Serena Alves Stein; Sophie O'Keefe; Emma J. Schneider; Erin Godecke; Kathryn Radford; Natasha A. Lannin – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: People with communication disability after stroke experience low rates of return to vocational roles. Vocational rehabilitation is recommended; however, there are no clear guidelines informing vocational rehabilitation for people with communication disability. Understanding the needs and experiences of this population is critical to…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Neurological Impairments, Communication Disorders, Reentry Workers
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Rogne, Wenke M.; Gamlem, Siv M. – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2019
A think-aloud study investigated 7th graders' (N = 30) information processing and seeking of feedback while reading four multiple partly contradictory texts. An extreme-case analysis shows that a highly-skilled reader uses deeper strategies, such as elaboration, evaluation, and paraphrasing of less contradictory information, than a less-skilled…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Protocol Analysis, Self Management, Grade 7
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Potocki, Anna; Ros, Christine; Vibert, Nicolas; Rouet, Jean-François – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2017
This study examines children's strategies when scanning a document to answer a specific question. More specifically, we wanted to know whether they make use of organizers (i.e., headings) when searching and whether strategic search is related to their knowledge of reading strategies. Twenty-six French fifth graders were asked to search single-page…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Eye Movements, Text Structure, Information Processing
Yacoub, Moustafa Hassan – Online Submission, 2017
The study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of training programme based on Information Processing through Brain Dominance to enhance Self-Regulation skills and its effect on Reading Comprehension among the sample of preparatory school pupils with English learning disabilities. The sample of the study consisted of (40) pupils with English…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Information Processing, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Self Control