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50 Years of ERIC
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Miciano, Remedios Z. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2006
To pilot a peer literacy program, a pretest-posttest study was conducted involving seventy (70) students from Arellano High School as tutees and 12 De La Salle University-Manila College of Education students as reading tutors. Though the results suggest the lack of impact of the Program on the Reading Grades of the tutees, the tutors' journals…
Descriptors: Tutors, Literacy, Preservice Teacher Education, Pilot Projects
Miciano, Remedios Z. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2004
Two classes in Developmental Reading were trained in question-formulation and were then required to ask any number and type of questions based on four texts. Three inter-raters coded the questions for their content and form. The results of the study showed the dominance of recognition or retrieval questions, suggesting the students' proficiency in…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Miciano, Remedios Z. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2002
Report on an experiment to discover if self-questioning as a reading strategy would help Filipino ESL students improve comprehension of English prose texts. Concludes that self-questioning as a strategy does not significantly affect comprehension despite the number and types of questions asked. (Contains 4 tables and 25 references.) (WFA)
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education