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Relationships among Constructs of L2 Chinese Reading and Language Background
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Hsu, Wei-Li – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Extensive research has been conducted on the relationships of Chinese-character recognition to reading development; strategic competence to reading comprehension; and home linguistic exposure to heritage language acquisition. However, studies of these relationships have been marked by widely divergent theoretical underpinnings, and their results…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
Measuring the Effects of Instructional Environment and Student Engagement on Reading Achievement for Struggling Readers in Middle School
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Kennedy, Patrick Charles – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Teaching is a complex and fundamentally collaborative process, through which knowledge and skills are acquired as a result of repeated interactions between teachers and students. The effectiveness of these interactions depends on both the instructional environment created by the teacher and the extent to which students engage with that…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Educational Environment, Learner Engagement, Reading Achievement
Moderation of Cognitive-Achievement Relations for Children with Specific Learning Disabilities: A Multi-Group Latent Variable Analysis Using CHC Theory
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Niileksela, Christopher R. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Recent advances in the understanding of the relations between cognitive abilities and academic skills have helped shape a better understanding of which cognitive processes may underlie different types of SLD (Flanagan, Fiorello, & Ortiz, 2010). Similarities and differences in cognitive-achievement relations for children with and without SLDs…
Descriptors: Children, Learning Disabilities, Cognitive Ability, Academic Ability