To Read or Not To Read: Listening to Children Talk about Reading Motivation

Reading with Robots: Engaging children to read aloud to robots

Introduction Seymour Papert in Mindstorms highlights the powerful potential technology, especially computers, has in education. He envisions a future where the computer's role goes beyond just " computer-aided instruction, " and instead it becomes an instrument that helps people think and learn creatively. Rather than for computers to " program the child, " the child should take on an active ro...

Learning to Read-Reading to Learn.

Recent research confirms that children learn to read best by using a balanced literacy program incorporating a combination of explicit phonics, whole language, and good literature. Long before children are able to engage in reading themselves, they must feel that reading is something they want to do. Comfortable and early familiarity with letters is critical for learning to read. Essential to c...

Motivation to Read in a Second Language: A Review of Literature

Reading motivation is a well-researched topic in relation to first language literacy development due to its influence on both reading processes and outcomes. In second language reading, the role of motivation has not been as thoroughly explored. The aim of this review of literature is to highlight established studies as well as recent explorations in some recurring areas of first and second lan...

Learning what to read: Focused machine reading

Recent efforts in bioinformatics have achieved tremendous progress in the machine reading of biomedical literature, and the assembly of the extracted biochemical interactions into large-scale models such as protein signaling pathways. However, batch machine reading of literature at today’s scale (PubMed alone indexes over 1 million papers per year) is unfeasible due to both cost and processing ...

How to Not Read a Victorian Novel