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. …
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The purpose of this study was to determine whether mapping with Cognitive Behavior Modification would produce superior performance to mapping without Cognitive Behavior Modification. Forty-seven learning disabled students, twenty-seven eighth graders and twenty seventh graders, …
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…
Fourteen Iranian-Canadian bilingual students were tested for language ability as well as cognitive and phonological processing skills in two languages: Farsi and English. They were compared to 30 Iranian monolingual chronological age matched students and 30 Canadian chronologica…
Literacy is best understood not merely as a functional tool but as a relationship between self and other. Viewed as relationship, literacy is a vivid point of encounter and difference between cultures and worldviews. When literacy is projected as a neutral and objective medium f…
The purpose of the study, "Value and Authenticity: Young Adult Readers Respond to African American Literature" (hereafter known as "Value"), was to discover how four middle school students take up some traditionally used classroom novels. In other words, "Value" wanted to find o…
Becker Elementary School in Dearborn, Michigan is a school wide chapter program with 79 percent of its students on free or reduced lunch. This unique population of students consists of 93 percent second language learners, mainly of Arabic descent. Becker has experienced this yea…
As the English language continues to hold a prominent international position both politically and academically, the need for second/foreign language (L2) learners especially those involved in the scientific and technological disciplines to read from their books in English remain…
The research in the present study investigates the contribution of learners' knowledge of linguistic factors, namely, vocabulary and syntax to English as a foreign language reading comprehension. Four research questions are addressed: (a) Is there a correlation between lexical k…
This study investigated the effects of utilizing the students' prior knowledge of Western culture and engaging them in cooperative learning on their attitude toward reading and reading performance in English as a foreign language in Indonesia. This research was conducted accordi…
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…
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…
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…
Living in the United States creates unique challenges in biliteracy and bilingualism for the Arab family. While extant literature provides insight into the literacy interactions and experiences of families from many other cultures now living in the U.S., there is next to nothing…
The purpose of this study was to analyze and evaluate the progress of student performance in reading and writing for 2 years in mixed-age classrooms as compared to students in traditional classrooms. The 471 subjects evaluated in the study were those who completed their first 2 …
People throughout the world seem to use metaphor, and current psycholinguistic research suggests that metaphorical statements are accessed and processed as easily as literal ones by native speakers. Non-native speakers, however, may find that culture-specific elements of metapho…