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Download full textSaaty, Ahdab A. – Arab World English Journal, 2019
This article reflects on the concept of meaningful literacy. It offers a classroom methodology, posting on a closed Facebook Group, that manifests this approach to English as a second language (ESL) or English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom meaningful literacy instruction. This study aims to produce empirically informed teaching materials…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Direct linkSeipel, Ben; Carlson, Sarah E.; Clinton, Virginia E. – Reading Psychology, 2017
The purpose of this study was to examine moment-by-moment fluctuations in text comprehension processing and determine how and when poor and good comprehenders differ. To do so, we reanalyzed a dataset of think-aloud protocols from 138 intermediate elementary students. Both good and poor comprehenders used a variety of processing strategies when…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Text Structure, Reading Comprehension, Reader Text Relationship
List, Alexandra; Grossnickle, Emily M.; Alexander, Patricia A. – Reading Psychology, 2016
The present study examined undergraduate students' multiple source use in response to two different types of academic questions, one discrete and one open-ended. Participants (N = 240) responded to two questions using a library of eight digital sources, varying in source type (e.g., newspaper article) and reliability (e.g., authors' credentials).…
Descriptors: Profiles, Questioning Techniques, Information Sources, Undergraduate Students
Endley, Martin J. – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2016
This paper reports a study of the reading strategies used by twelve Arabic-speaking undergraduates at a major Gulf university when reading texts in English. The procedure employed was a think-aloud protocol followed by a semi-structured interview. Three research questions were addressed: (a) What are the primary comprehension problems encountered…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Reading Strategies, English (Second Language)
Danielson, Robert W.; Sinatra, Gale M.; Kendeou, Panayiota – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2016
Refutation texts have been shown to be effective at promoting knowledge revision. It has been suggested that refutation texts are most effective when the misconception and the correct information are co-activated and integrated with causal networks that support the correct information. We explored two augmentations to a refutation text that might…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Logical Thinking, Misconceptions, Visual Aids
Huang, Shu-Chen – Taiwan Journal of TESOL, 2016
This paper reports the design of learning-oriented formative assessments in an EFL writing course that involved learners in regularly responding to teacher feedback. Following major assessment and feedback frameworks developed recently, these formative assessments were explicated in three aspects: the scheduling of learning and assessment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Student Evaluation
