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Tracy Johnson; Emily Rodgers; Jerome V. D'Agostino – Reading Psychology, 2024
Current reading research largely focuses on word reading. This study complements that focus by considering what children do when encountering unknown words and how that problem-solving changes over time. We used overlapping wave theory to describe how children who were having difficulty with reading changed their word-solving actions across nine…
Descriptors: Learning Laboratories, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction, Kindergarten
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Bagri, Gurjog; Dickinson, Laura – Reading Psychology, 2023
Metacognitive reading strategies represent a goal-driven system that plays a role in critical thinking verbal tasks in students. Research reveals that greater attentional focus and use of executive functions is associated with lower trait anxiety, and better verbal reasoning. However, high verbal reasoning is also positively associated with trait…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Reading Strategies, Anxiety, Critical Thinking
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Alkhateeb, Haitham M.; Abushihab, Eiman F.; Alkhateeb, Rasha H.; Alkhateeb, Bataul H. – Reading Psychology, 2021
This study assessed the metacognitive awareness of reading strategies of undergraduate university students in US and Qatar in reading academic materials. To achieve this, the participants were administered the Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies Inventory (MARSI). The inventory consists of three groups of reading strategies, namely…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Undergraduate Students, Cross Cultural Studies, Metacognition
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Ghahari, Shima; Basanjideh, Mahin – Reading Psychology, 2017
With the advent of learner-centered approaches to language learning and life skills education paradigm in psychology, language classrooms are conceived a fitting educational setting for life skills intervention. This study investigated reading strategies awareness, as a legacy of humanistic psychology and learner-centered movement, of language…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Reading Tests
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Lee, Polly A.; Schmitt, Maribeth Cassidy – Reading Psychology, 2014
This study investigated the influence of teacher language related to a specific network of strategies for problem solving, self-monitoring, and self-correcting on (a) the development and use of independent strategic activities and (b) metacognitive awareness variables in emergent readers. Descriptive analyses of 120 individual lessons conducted…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Instruction, Metacognition, Oral Reading
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Hong-Nam, Kay; Page, Larkin – Reading Psychology, 2014
The metacognitive awareness and reading strategy use by Korean university students in Korea was investigated. The relationships between reading strategy use, self-rated English proficiency, and self-rated reading proficiency were examined. Differences in reading strategy use were also explored by gender and academic classification. Problem-solving…
Descriptors: Metacognition, College Students, Foreign Countries, Reading Strategies
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Hedin, Laura R.; Gaffney, Janet S. – Reading Psychology, 2013
Teachers working with students with reading difficulties must decide when and how to intervene. Wood (2002) suggested that teachers' shift their levels of support to match students' needs based on moment-by-moment observations--that is, teachers should scaffold their support. In this qualitative analysis, we investigated instructors' scaffolding…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 6, Reading Difficulties, Tutoring
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Cantrell, Susan Chambers; Carter, Janis C. – Reading Psychology, 2009
This study investigates relationships among adolescent students' perceived use of academic reading strategies and reading achievement, age, and gender. Good readers reported using global and problem-solving strategies to a greater extent than poor readers. Surface-level problem-solving strategies were more strongly related to higher reading…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Strategies, Problem Solving, Adolescents
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Yang, Yu-Fen – Reading Psychology, 2006
In order to probe the relationship between reading strategies and comprehension monitoring strategies and how they function to help readers in comprehension process, the present study utilizes think-aloud and retrospective verbal reports to examine 20 EFL readers' performances in reading texts. The results reveal that the engagement of reading…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Reading Teachers, Reading Processes, Reading Strategies