Theoretical Issues In Reading Comprehension

Author : Rand J. Spiro,Bertram C. Bruce,William F. Brewer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351607230

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Theoretical Issues in Reading Comprehension by Rand J. Spiro,Bertram C. Bruce,William F. Brewer Pdf

Research in cognitive psychology, linguistics, and artificial intelligence – the three disciplines that have the most direct application to an understanding of the mental processes in reading – is presented in this multilevel work, originally published in 1980, that attempts to provide a systematic and scientific basis for understanding and building a comprehensive theory of reading comprehension. The major focus is on understanding the processes involved in the comprehension of written text. Underlying most of the contributions is the assumption that skilled reading comprehension requires a coordination of text with context in a way that goes far beyond simply chaining together the meanings of a string of decoded words. The topics discussed are divided into five general areas: Global Issues; Text Structure; Language, Knowledge of the World, and Inference; Effects of Prior Language Experience; and Comprehension Strategies and Facilitators, and represent a broad base of methodology and data that should be of interest not only to those concerned with the reading process, but also to basic science researchers in psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, and related disciplines.

Author : Rand J. Spiro,Bertram C. Bruce,William F. Brewer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:641167373

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Theoretical Issues in Reading Comprehension by Rand J. Spiro,Bertram C. Bruce,William F. Brewer Pdf

Author : Rand J. Spiro,Bertram C. Bruce,William F. Brewer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351607247

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Theoretical Issues in Reading Comprehension by Rand J. Spiro,Bertram C. Bruce,William F. Brewer Pdf

Research in cognitive psychology, linguistics, and artificial intelligence – the three disciplines that have the most direct application to an understanding of the mental processes in reading – is presented in this multilevel work, originally published in 1980, that attempts to provide a systematic and scientific basis for understanding and building a comprehensive theory of reading comprehension. The major focus is on understanding the processes involved in the comprehension of written text. Underlying most of the contributions is the assumption that skilled reading comprehension requires a coordination of text with context in a way that goes far beyond simply chaining together the meanings of a string of decoded words. The topics discussed are divided into five general areas: Global Issues; Text Structure; Language, Knowledge of the World, and Inference; Effects of Prior Language Experience; and Comprehension Strategies and Facilitators, and represent a broad base of methodology and data that should be of interest not only to those concerned with the reading process, but also to basic science researchers in psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, and related disciplines.

Author : Danielle S. McNamara
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780805859676

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Reading Comprehension Strategies by Danielle S. McNamara Pdf

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Robert J. Tierney,Patricia L. Anders,Judy Nichols Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136563195

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Understanding Readers' Understanding by Robert J. Tierney,Patricia L. Anders,Judy Nichols Mitchell Pdf

This collection features papers addressing current issues in reading comprehension from cognitive and linguistic perspectives. Organized into three sections, the volume investigates text considerations and reader-text interactions. Each paper presents a substantial and comprehensive review of theory and research related to cognition and reading comprehension.

Author : Rebecca Barr,P. David Pearson,Michael L. Kamil,Peter B. Mosenthal
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : 0805841504

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Handbook of Reading Research by Rebecca Barr,P. David Pearson,Michael L. Kamil,Peter B. Mosenthal Pdf

The influential first volume of the Handbook of Reading Research, published in 1984, was out of print for a number of years. This classic work, newly reprinted and available once again, includes comprehensive, authoritative, and effectively written chapters from a variety of research perspectives. With the breadth to appeal to a wide audience, yet the depth to speak authoritatively to various subgroups within that audience, this volume is an essential resource for researchers, students, and professionals across the field of reading and literacy education.

Author : Ghazali Mustapha
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781543745580

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An Investigation of Teachers’ Questions and Tasks to Develop Reading Comprehension by Ghazali Mustapha Pdf

Teachers are constantly seeking ways to improve their teaching and thereby enhance the learning of their students. One method of doing this is to bring critical and creative thinking skills to the forefront of the curriculum. This has been emphasized by the Malaysian Ministry of Education via the KBSM syllabus in order to teach critical and creative thinking by considering the use of programs like Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives in classroom practice. This study demonstrates how the higher-order skills can be integrated into the secondary school reading curriculum. The main aim of the study is to investigate how teachers design reading comprehension questions (RCQs) and reading comprehension tasks (RCTs) in relation to the demands of higher-order thinking to produce students with critical minds. It focuses primarily on the use of COGAFF taxonomy (a cognitive-affective taxonomy adapted from Bloom’s and Krathwohl’s) to formulate higher-order reading questions and tasks as a means to develop critical and creative thinking skills. In a pilot study in Britain (with forty Malaysian teachers) and in the main field study in Malaysia, 150 subjects (teachers and student teachers) have yielded about one thousand RCQs and one thousand RCTs. In line with many research findings of question and task design, 91.2% of the RCQs and 83.6% of RCTs produced during the pretest were of low-order types. Subjects attended a workshop emphasizing question and task designing using the COGAFF taxonomy. Dramatically, during the posttest, 74.4% of the RCQs and 80.6% of the RCTs were transformed into higher-order inferential forms. The other major thrust of the study is to demonstrate how higher-order questions can be used to design equally higher-order tasks that can be utilized as a thinking skills approach in the teaching of reading comprehension lessons in secondary schools. Thinking tools and strategies as suggested by Beyer, Guilford, Gardner, and several others and their implications for the teaching of reading comprehension and training of teachers in Malaysia are also discussed.

Author : Nicola Yuill,Jane Oakhill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1991-09-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780521353243

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Children's Problems in Text Comprehension by Nicola Yuill,Jane Oakhill Pdf

A 1991 examination of children's comprehension abilities by Yuill and Oakhill.

Author : Susan E. Israel,Gerald G. Duffy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317639664

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Handbook of Research on Reading Comprehension by Susan E. Israel,Gerald G. Duffy Pdf

The Handbook of Research on Reading Comprehension assembles researchers of reading comprehension, literacy, educational psychology, psychology, and neuroscience to document the most recent research on the topic. It summarizes the current body of research on theory, methods, instruction, and assessment, including coverage of landmark studies. Designed to deepen understanding of how past research can be applied and has influenced the present and to stimulate new thinking about reading comprehension, the volume is organized around seven themes: historical perspectives on reading comprehension theoretical perspectives changing views of text elements of reading comprehension assessing and teaching reading comprehension cultural impact on reading comprehension where to from here? This is an essential reference volume for the international community of reading researchers, reading psychologists, graduate students, and professionals working in the area of reading and literacy.

Author : Anne McKeough,Judy Lee Lupart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136470806

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Toward the Practice of theory-based Instruction by Anne McKeough,Judy Lee Lupart Pdf

This unique contribution to the field of education offers a comparative look at the application of cognitive theory to instruction. Six leading researchers, representing the three theoretical positions which guide the study of cognition -- socio- cultural, information processing, and neo-Piagetian approaches -- discuss their theories and present empirical evidence in support of cognitively-based instructional practice. An introductory chapter describes the basic tenets of each tradition and its general educational posture, and a concluding chapter compares the contributors' views and draws implications for key educational issues. These open-ended discussions of the contrasts and overlaps in the various positions should stimulate readers to formulate personal opinions on cognitively-based instruction.

Author : Alan C. Purves,Olive S. Niles,Olive Niles
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1984-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 0226601374

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Becoming Readers in a Complex Society by Alan C. Purves,Olive S. Niles,Olive Niles Pdf

The Eighty-Third Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part I

Author : Robert J. Tierney,P. David Pearson
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807779682

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A History of Literacy Education by Robert J. Tierney,P. David Pearson Pdf

In this volume, two notable scholars trace the monumental shifts in theory, research, and practice related to reading education and literacy, with particular attention to what they consider the central goal of literacy—making meaning. Each section describes a specific epoch, including a brief snapshot of how the reader of that period is envisioned and characterized by researchers and teachers, as well as a deep discussion of the ideas and contextual events of that era. These developmental waves are organized in rough historical sequence by a series of shifts in underlying theoretical and scholarly lenses—from the behavioral to the psycholinguistic to the cognitive to the sociocultural to the critical to the multimodal to the global. The book closes with a discussion of the various research frames and methodological approaches that paralleled these developments. Throughout, there is a profound recognition that all research and practice are ultimately directed toward how students make meaning, from sound to letter to word, to ideas and images. Book Features: Animates some of the revolutionary developments related to reading education and literacy in modern times. Each development is accompanied by a discussion of the aspirational reader that sets the stage for contemplating these shifts and their significance.Traces the research and theoretical developments to illustrate the origins of the shifts and their influences. Supported by a website with video lectures and conversations tied to the various waves of development.

Author : Monika Kusiak
Publisher : Wydawnictwo UJ
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : English language
ISBN : 9788323388401

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Reading Comprehension in Polish and English by Monika Kusiak Pdf

This book is about reading. Throughout the book, the author explains the complexity of the dual-language involvement of FL/L2 reading by showing how L1 and FL/L2 factors interplay in FL/L2 reading. The main aim of the book is to explore reading in English in the foreign/second language context as a cross-linguistic phenomenon and to present the results of a think-aloud study which investigated reading in Polish as the L1 and English as the FL of Polish learners of English. The project consisted of six stages, each focussing on a different aspect of reading. Thus, the following was explored: reading strategies, problems and solutions, the way the subjects constructed their representations of the texts, the students’ individual patterns of developing comprehension and effectiveness in identifying the main ideas. The findings revealed both differences and similarities between the subjects’ reading in Polish and their reading in English. The book offers implications for further research and elucidates the usefulness of think-aloud protocols in foreign language instruction.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781483297675

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Learning and Study Strategies by Anonim Pdf

This volume reflects current research on the cognitive strategies of autonomous learning. Topics such as metacognition, attribution theory, self-efficacy, direct instruction, attention, and problem solving are discussed by leading researchers in learning and study strategies. The contributors to this volume acknowledge and address the concerns of educators at the primary, secondary, and postsecondary school levels. The blend of theory and practice is an important feature of this volume.

Author : Gary Woolley
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400711747

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Reading Comprehension by Gary Woolley Pdf

Reading Comprehension: Assisting Children with Learning Difficulties examines the complex nature of reading comprehension. It introduces a model for classifying reading comprehension based on an expanded Simple View of Reading. Issues related to assessment, diagnosis, and remediation of reading comprehension difficulties are discussed and translated into clear recommendations to inform reading intervention design and practice. It gives an informed understanding as to why reading comprehension is difficult for some children with learning disabilities such as ADHD, autism, language difficulties and dyslexia. From leading literacy research, the book develops a deeper understanding of thinking processes that facilitate comprehension at the word, discourse, and metacognitive levels. Children will benefit from the introduction of evidence-based methods for teaching reading comprehension using structured multiple-strategy frameworks.