O presente Relatório constitui-se como um elemento de avaliação à Unidade Curricular de Prática de Ensino Supervisionada, Unidade Curricular integrada no Mestrado em Ensino do 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico e de Português e História e Geografia de Portugal no 2.º Ciclo do Ensino Bás…
O presente Relatório de Estágio constitui uma formalidade para admissão à prova pública e, por conseguinte, a obtenção do grau de Mestre. Este Relatório inclui-se na Unidade Curricular Prática de Ensino Supervisionada, integrante do 2.º ano do Mestrado em Ensino do 1.º Ciclo do …
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of reading strategies and self-efficacy with the reading comprehension of high school students in Indonesia. A convenience sample of 138 high school students from a state high school participated in this study. To mea…
This qualitative study explored, through a process of elicitation of awareness for teachability, the metacognitive strategies that fifth-grade elementary monolingual English-speaking students in a dual English and Hebrew language program are using in reading comprehension in the…
A considerable theoretical importance is assigned to the use of authentic texts in testing reading comprehension. There is, however, a dearth of research that could provide the practical justification for such importance. Recently, some researchers began to question the speculat…
The main interest of this study was to investigate whether the effects discourse signals which signalled the main ideas and a structural advance organizer which described the structure of the main ideas of expository texts would facilitate Indonesian EFL learners to understand a…
Malaysian teachers are constantly seeking ways to improve their students' reading in English and thereby enhance the learning of their students. One method of doing this is to bring critical and creative thinking to the forefront of the curriculum. This has been emphasized by th…
The purpose of this mixed-methods research was to examine the impact of mediated cognitive strategy intervention on the reading comprehension and self-efficacy of Palestinian-Arab middle school students with learning disabilities. Eighteen seventh-grade students with LD who were…
Research literature suggests that successful readers apply a variety of metacognitive strategies in comprehension, use them more frequently than do less successful readers, and that strategy instruction improves reader comprehension. Much research is available on the instruction…
Reading is a process that requires effort on the readers' parts if they want to understand what they are reading. A considerable amount of research has been devoted to understanding the processes that contribute to reading comprehension. As part of that research, this study was …
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 (Palincsar & Brown, 1984; Palincsar, David…
This study investigated the effects the use of cooperative learning method in English as a second language reading comprehension performance and how it improves the students' second language, their attitudes toward cooperative learning, and their motivation toward reading. Sixty…
This study examined the extent to which the use of cooperative learning in the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) in Washington, DC had an impact on the reading performance of grade four and five students in the standard reading curriculum. The ISA is a bilingual English-Arabic school …
In order to determine if kindergarten students could be taught to make or improve the comprehension strategy of text-to-self connection during reading, the think-aloud instructional approach was taught whole group using read-aloud books over a six-week period (Baumann, Jones, & …
The ability to write well is inextricably linked to reading comprehension, acquisition of content knowledge, and college and career readiness. Many adolescent students, especially those from economically challenged (EC) households, struggle in their ability to communicate in wri…
Puns have a long history and a wide range of applications. They cover different topics and categories from custom etiquette, literary and artistic creation to eye-catching innovation. They are quite common in the daily life of Chinese people, and are also a feature of Chinese. W…
According to the Procedural Deficit Hypothesis, abnormalities in corticostriatal pathways could account for the language-related deficits observed in developmental dyslexia. The same neural network has also been implicated in the ability to learn reinforcement contingencies base…
Educational research on belonging shows that a student’s sense of belonging in the classroom can positively affect everything from cognitive functioning and academic achievement to participation and retention (Baumeister et al., 2002; Baumeister & Leary, 1995; Goodenow, 1993; Os…
Nos últimos anos, têm sido vários os estudos que sugerem que bons hábitos de leitura e que a escolha do papel para a leitura são fatores que influenciam o desempenho em leitura e o desempenho académico. Assim, o grande objetivo deste estudo foi o de avaliar a relação entre os há…