This study was an action research study that examined how second grade bilingual children defined "the word and their world" (Freire & Macedo, 1987) during literature discussions; that world is structured by societal, school, and classroom constructions of race, culture and lang…
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The purpose of this study was to gain a deeper understanding of teachers' beliefs about the role of technology in their literacy instruction in the context of one elementary school with a technology-rich environment by investigating those beliefs about instructional technology a…
This study examines the development of early grade reading skills as a means for quality improvement in global education. Specifically, this study explores the contextual factors that affect the achievement of early reading skills in Ethiopia and investigates the relationship be…
Research on multiple text comprehension reveals key principles and elements of comprehension: readers' mental representation, cognitive text processing, and strategy use while reading multiple texts (Goldman, 2004; Rouet, 2006). However, many studies of multiple text comprehensi…
This retrospective, longitudinal study compared single-word reading progress in children with dyslexia only versus children with dyslexia plus spoken language impairments. Forty-eight grade school students received speech-language testing prior to admissions (PreAd), single-word…
This qualitative study explores the literacy and language practices of Black adolescent girls as they read and make meaning of a critical text. The focus of this inquiry was to broadly examine how societal and situational factors influence the ways in which Black adolescent girl…
An exploration into teachers’ understandings and operationalization of Academic Language and Explicit Reading Comprehension Strategy Instruction for secondary English learners. It has been established that language is at the heart of teaching and learning (Dicerbo et al., 2014),…
The purpose of this phenomenological study is to discover factors that motivate male Emirati ESL students studying in a higher education Foundation program to read extensively in English. Research questions seek to discern motivational factors, underlying motivational constructs…
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between reading-related training (university courses and professional development beyond university training) and the implementation of reading instruction among teachers of students with LD in Saudi schools. A survey was…
This study described how the English language arts (ELA) teacher mediates the literacy learning of the 6th grade students at Bright Star Islamic school whose language and cultural background is diverse. Three specific research questions guided this study, including (1) what appr…
Reading is considered a foundation of learning, playing a vital role in the students' achievement at schools through the academic years. Teaching reading is a demanding task that requires extensive work and effort from teachers to develop reading and writing skills throughout th…
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…
The purpose of this study was to identify factors that influence performance on the FCAT Grade 10 Reading Test. Participants were fifty-five 11 th graders [23 males (42%) and 32 females (58%)], mostly Hispanic (1 African American, 1 Asian, and 53 Hispanic), from a diverse high s…
This study investigated how students learn in the classroom by tracing that learning back to its sources. A ten-day instructional unit that contained (1) a video presentation designed to enhance and/or activate prior knowledge, (2) textbook-centered learning activities, and (3) …
The role of assembled phonology in English word recognition has been the focus of a considerable research effort. Yet, the empirical findings regarding the role of assembly exhibit marked contradictions, which are further linked to the properties of the experimental method. This…
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of semantic context in the oral reading of unvoweled Hebrew. Studies addressing context effects in English indicated that decoding ability of adequate readers was only minimally affected by context. Greater phonological ambiguity…
This dissertation analyzes the life and work of Cora Wilson Stewart, a Kentuckian whose pioneering efforts in adult education led to the founding of the "Moonlight schools" and to the establishment of a national crusade against illiteracy. From its origins in the mountains of Ea…
The purpose of this study was to further current understanding of the role of print exposure on reading ability. While checklist measures (i.e., recognition tasks) have previously been used with children as an estimated measure of extra-curricular reading, the young and developi…
Based on the theoretical connection between the current understanding of reading comprehension and the technological attributes of the computer, the present study investigated the effect of using computer-mediated reading supports on the reading comprehension and the reading beh…