Interest in Reading as Facilitating Factor in Acquiring Reading Skills

Reading Skills

assessing metacognitive awareness and learning strategies as positive predictors in promoting l2 learners’ reading comprehension

the purpose of this thesis was to investigate how differently metacognitive, cognitive, and social/affective strategies affect l2 learners’ reading comprehension. to this end, the study employed a quasi-experimental design with a placement test as a proficiency test to find the homogeneity of groups. three classes were randomly selected as the experimental groups (n =90), and each class was tau...

Developing Children's Interest in Reading

Librarians have always discussed methods of developing children’s interest in reading, but they have focused more on the books being read than on the act of reading. Although many touted the need to “establish the reading habit,” a closer reading of the literature reveals that this referred specifically to reading “good books,” those which socialized children into culturally acceptable sex role...

Interest and Ability in Reading

Heading. Arthur I. Gates. New York. The Macmillan Company. 1930. vii -j264 pp. In keeping step -vvitli the movement of scientific method in education, Perhaps no one has distinguished himself in the publication of material relating to children's reading so greatly as has Professor Gates, of Teachers College, Columbia University. For the last decade he has interested himself in the specific natu...

Facilitating text reading in posterior cortical atrophy

OBJECTIVE We report (1) the quantitative investigation of text reading in posterior cortical atrophy (PCA), and (2) the effects of 2 novel software-based reading aids that result in dramatic improvements in the reading ability of patients with PCA. METHODS Reading performance, eye movements, and fixations were assessed in patients with PCA and typical Alzheimer disease and in healthy controls...