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Bui, Ngoc H. – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2017
Studies on reading literacy have yet to connect how students perceive the importance of different literacy areas to their ability perception in those areas. This article analyzes students' importance ranking of four different areas of literacy: prose (comprehending written information), document (interpreting information in forms, schedules,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Self Efficacy, Reading Attitudes, Prose
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Aukerman, Maren; Schuldt, Lorien Chambers; Aiello, Liam; Martin, Paolo C. – Harvard Educational Review, 2017
In this study, the authors examine how emergent bilingual second graders collaboratively constructed textual understandings, a phenomenon they call "intercomprehending," by building on each other's contributions and positioning their ideas in relation to peer ideas. The study traces the interrelationships of the utterances of emergent…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Bilingual Students, Emergent Literacy
BORMUTH, JOHN R. – 1966
IN AN EFFORT TO DEVELOP ACCURATE FORMULAS FOR PREDICTING AND CONTROLLING THE READABILITY OF LANGUAGE, FIVE BASIC PROBLEMS WERE STUDIED--(1) THE VARIOUS FEATURES OF WRITING STYLE AS LINEARLY RELATED TO COMPREHENSION DIFFICULTIES, (2) THE CHANGE OF STRENGTHS OF RELATIONSHIPS AS A FUNCTION OF READING ABILITY, (3) READABILITY PREDICTION MADE UPON…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Data Processing, Grade 4, Grade 5