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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Emergent Readers' Social Interaction Styles and Their Comprehension Processes during Buddy Reading
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Christ, Tanya; Wang, X. Christine; Chiu, Ming Ming – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2015
To examine the relations between emergent readers' social interaction styles and their comprehension processes, we adapted sociocultural and transactional views of learning and reading, and conducted statistical discourse analysis of 1,359 conversation turns transcribed from 14 preschoolers' 40 buddy reading events. Results show that…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Interpersonal Relationship, Reading Comprehension, Discourse Analysis
Young Children's Opportunities to Use and Learn Theme-Related Vocabulary through Buddy "Reading"
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Christ, Tanya; Wang, X. Christine – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2012
This qualitative study examined whether and how preschoolers' social interactions during buddy "reading" supported their use and learning of theme-related vocabulary. Data included 32 transcribed videos of 14 preschoolers engaged in buddy "reading." Interaction analysis and constant comparative methods were applied to identify (1) patterns of…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Interaction Process Analysis, Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development