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On Checking Reading Comprehension
The Modern Language Journal, 1951T RANSLATION has been frequently and thoroughly damned as a classroom activity. Although it has not lacked defenders to declare with considerable justice that its faults lie not so much in the method itself as in its abuse, certain it is that translation remains a preponderant activity in American classrooms not so much because of any deep-seated ...
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Motivation for reading comprehension
Learning and Individual Differences, 2009Abstract In a sample of 104 Norwegian ninth-grade students, we examined whether perceived reading efficacy and reading task value uniquely predicted the comprehension of a social studies text after variance associated with gender, achievement in the domain, topic knowledge, deeper strategies, and surface strategies had been removed through forced ...
Ivar Bråten, Øistein Anmarkrud
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Pragmatics and Reading Comprehension
2017This chapter discusses the subfield of linguistics in which such matters are studied, pragmatics. Pragmatic descriptions and explanations are currently attracting interest not only in linguistics but also in philosophy, psychology, and related fields. The term pragmatics was first used by Morris for aspects of language that involve users and contexts ...
Jerry Morgan, Georgia M. Green
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Idioms and Reading Comprehension
Journal of Reading Behavior, 1974Presents results from a study designed to determine whether idioms cause difficulty for children in the reading and understanding of prose. Two hundred and fifty-six grade eight children were randomly chosen from two high schools and each child was tested with one of four tests which contained increasing amounts of idiomatic expressions. The treatment
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Validation in Reading Comprehension
Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2013Language comprehension involves analysis at the level of the word, sentence, and message and the integration of message meaning with the prior discourse and world knowledge. Contemporary research converges on another facet of comprehension: the validation of message consistency.
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Measuring Reading Comprehension
The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 1958(1958). Measuring Reading Comprehension. The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas: Vol. 32, No. 6, pp. 343-345.
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Theories of Reading Comprehension
2019‘We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a beam is taken away a new one must at once be put there, and for this the rest of the ship is used as support. In this way, by using the old beams and driftwood the ship can be shaped entirely anew, but only by gradual ...
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The “RAP” on Reading Comprehension [PDF]
TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2010 Robert Reid +2 more
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The Reading-Comprehension Passage and a Comprehensive Reading Programme
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