This thesis is an exploratory study of moves and movements of the design discipline towards social and activist critical practices. It departs from a growing concern for design as a socially committed activity that has been around since the 1960s. The social turn, as we describe…
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Developing reading skills is one of the critical reasons for public education in America. Having a reading intervention in place for fourth and fifth-grade students who struggle in reading is vital to set students up for success as learning to read switches to reading to learn. …
This historiography study investigates the Somali Literacy Campaign of 1975, which was implemented to improve the socioeconomic development of the country through literacy. The Somali language did not have orthography until 1972 and the media of administration and education inst…
The association between reading problems and behavior problems has been established for children learning to read English (see Gellert & Embro, 1999). To date, however, little research has examined this relationship in bilingual situations. The goal of the current study was to i…
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationships among the verbal ratings of the different kinds of knowledge involved in story comprehension. Two different theoretical perspectives were explored. Structural theories are concerned about the relationship between categ…
This study investigates the effectiveness of metacognitive strategies on reading comprehension and comprehension strategies of 11th-grade male students in Kuwaiti high schools in the subject of Arabic language. This study concentrates on two metacognitive strategies (the K-W-L P…
This study was designed to explore the use of comprehension strategies on the reading comprehension of culturally familiar and culturally unfamiliar texts when they are presented to children from Pakistan who are engaged in English as a second language programs in the New York C…
Hemispheric asymmetry for processing printed material was examined for Urdu-English bilinguals in a series of experiments that presented material briefly to the right visual field/left hemisphere (RVF/LH), left visual field/right hemisphere (LVF/RH) or to both visual fields simu…
Research indicates that extensive reading has been an effective approach for learning a language and therefore, more investigation in different contexts is needed. One major requirement for the success of the extensive reading approach is the availability of large amounts of mat…
This study examined the reported and actual reading strategies and the metacognitive awareness of a random sample of fourth-year Saudi college students as they read in English as a foreign language. It consisted of two parts: part one surveyed students' metacognitive awareness u…
Diversity in the American classroom has created an unavoidable debate about cultural identity and its impact on students' performance. The acculturation or assimilation level is crucial to the development of the self and determines the level of comfort of dealing with people fro…
My dissertation examines ways Cold War fiction engages the politics and sociology of reading in post-World War II America. Juxtaposing texts by Alfred Hitchcock, J. D. Salinger, Thomas Pynchon, and John Barth with scores of post-war political, academic, and popular “how to read”…
This study was an initial effort to examine the applicability of Curriculum Based Measurement (CBM) procedures to measure reading in a language other than English, and more specifically, in Hebrew. Participants included 416 regular education students from grades 1–5 from 3 eleme…
Research shows that the language Immersion Method, where children are taught entirely in the target language, is among the best ways to learn a second language (Curtain and Haas, 1995). The five year time frame between ages 3-8 is the crucial time to teach young children a secon…
In the novels of Toni Morrison, Nawal El Saadawi and Arundhati Roy, torture expresses the violence of slavery, religious fundamentalism and poverty. Rather than simply revealing loss and diminishment, the areas of criticism most literary critics have focused on in the last thirt…
This dissertation argues for the importance of reading literature about the 1947 partition of colonial India in order to begin a truly interdisciplinary reflection on postcolonial and South Asian studies. I shall argue that South Asian literature about the partition of colonial …
The purpose of this critical and ethnographic case study was (a) to investigate how the official reading identities of four urban adolescent students of color were constructed, and (b) to examine how students perform multiple reading identities in the classroom. Grounded in a fr…
The purpose of this study was to examine how gender and ethnicity were represented in both Chinese and Malay language reading textbooks currently used in primary schools of Malaysia. The aim of this textbook analysis was to determine the extent and manner in which the various gr…
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…