Reading and Language Commons^™

Proper And Improper Behaviors / Conducts Of Efl Instructors As Perceived By English-Majored Students, Kriengsukdi Syananondh, Watana Padgate

PASAA

This research paper reports proper and improper behaviors / conducts of EFL instructors as perceived by the fourth-year English major students at a large Thai university in order to help enhance English learning success and avoid poor learning achievement. Creating a low-anxiety classroom atmosphere is clearly an important prerequisite to language learning success. The findings have serious implications for EFL instructors. It is expected that this information may be able to help EFL students and instructors to cope with existing difficulties and anxiety-provoking situations and endeavor to make the learning context less stressful and more pleasurable.

Idea Sharing: Using Tales To Teach Efl Students With Low Levels Of English Language Proficiency, Kevin Dempsey, Martin Murray

PASAA

No abstract provided.

Idea Sharing: Experiences Introducing An Internet-Based English Course, Willard Van De Bogart

PASAA

This paper focuses on how an active learning model was applied to an internet-based course to develop English writing, problem solving, critical thinking, and literacy skills. It was found that the time needed, to evaluate student work arising from, the internet, based course was much greater than that required in the former paper based course. Based on this experience it is recommended that institutions changing over from paper based ELT materials to internet based ELT materials should really reduce class sizes.

A Special Talk With David Nunan Chair Professor Of Applied Linguistics And Director Of The English Centre, University Of Hong Kong

PASAA

As program developers and language instructors are trying to find alternative methods to assess learners' learning progress and language achievement, could you briefly share with our readers your experience with portfolio assessments in your work in Hong Kong?

Thai University Students' Variables As The Predictors Of Computer-Based Test Performance, Prateep Kiratibodee

PASAA

This article aims at studying (1) the relationships between three selected variables (computer attitudes, computer anxiety, and computer familiarity) and reading comprehension Computer- Based Test (CBT) performance of Thai students and (2) the extent to which the three variables predict their reading comprehension CBT scores. A correlational study was conducted. The data were collected from 90 undergraduate Thai students. They are assigned to three groups of high, average and low English language ability. Two research instruments of this study are a questionnaire and a reading comprehension CBT. The findings indicated that computer attitudes and computer anxiety are significantly correlated with …

Navigating To Read - Reading To Navigate, Prangtip Noparumpa

PASAA

Murray, D. E. & McPherson, P. (Eds.) (2005). Navigating to read - reading to navigate. Sydney: The National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research, Macquarie University.

Documentary Editing, Vol. 28, No. 1, Spring 2006--Front Matter

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Cover--Photo of Adams National Historical Site--Title Page--Publication Information--Contents--Contributors

First Encounters With Documentary Editing, Or, Tales In Training, Amy Speckart

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Which of these things is not like the other?

SELECTION, VERIFICATION, ANNOTATION, SEX, ALCOHOL, INDEXING

Asking this question of seasoned editors (at an ADE meeting) might skew the answers a bit. Or maybe I missed something when I attended Camp Edit. At least, that is how it seems having talked to several veterans of the Camp Edit of the 1970s, which had a level of camaraderie that quite exceeded my own, comparatively chaste experience a year ago.

In this and other ways, training programs in documentary editing under the aegis of the NHPRC have changed over time, reflecting changes in …

E. Fernie, Spiritual Shakespeares, Christopher P. Baker

Literature: Faculty Publications

This book review was published in Renaissance Quarterly.

Undergraduates' Use Of Mathematics Textbooks, Bret Benesh, Tim Boester, Aaron Weinberg, Eimilie Wiesner

Mathematics Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Boys And Literacy: Disengaging From Reading, Barbara Ann Ell

Theses Digitization Project

This quantitative study investigates the disparity that exists between girls and boys and how changes can be implemented to keep boys from disengaging from reading. It examines the reading materials that are available to increase boys' interest in reading and discusses ways in which teachers can develop programs and parents can take action to change boys reading habits. The study employed teacher surveys and student surveys from sixth grade boys in three San Bernardino middle schools.

Oral Language Development: Effects Of Instruction To Increase Oral Language Skills And Its Connection To Reading Achievement, Nancee Marlene Simpson

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to determine if specific oral language instruction could improve oral language skills in students who demonstrate low oral language development, and as oral language skills increase, woud this affect reading achievement.

Increasing Comprehension Strategies Through Reciprocal Teaching, Kathlyn Garcia Benosa

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of the study was twofold. First, it describes two research-based instructional strategies that have been effective in increasing reading comprehension (reciprocal teaching and using readers' response journals). Second, a quasi-experimental research design was created to determine the educational impact of these two strategies on the reading comprehension levels of elementary-aged English Language Learners (ELLs). The data was collected from a low socioeconomic elementary school, specifically looking at a second grade classroom. The classroom demographic included eighteen students, ten of which were English Language Learners. Both informal and formal assessments were used to determine growth across time. The overall …

Liberation Theology And Liberatory Pedagogies: Renewing The Dialogue, Shari J. Stenberg

Department of English: Faculty Publications

recent Chronicle of Higher Education column, Stanley Fish describes a phone call he received after the death of Jacques Derrida from a reporter who was curious as to what would succeed high theory as the "center of energy in the academy." "I answered like a shot," Fish writes, "religion" (1). For many, Fish's prophecy might create a feeling of uneasiness; after all, in academic culture, religious ideologies are often considered hindrances to-not vehicles for-critical thought. This feeling may be especially true in regard to Christianity, which is often conflated with conservative politics and fundamentalism both in and outside of the …

Reading Paradigms, School Reading Programs And The Impact On The Outcome Of Students' Standardized Test Scores, Margaret Elizabeth Verhaar Matanane

Theses Digitization Project

This study is a meta analysis of existing studies of reading paradigms and reading programs in five Southern California cities. It compares median household income in these cities to test scores. The study aslo presents the the theoretical frameworks of the influences of Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky on American education and poverty. Additionally, this study is to find out if one reading paradigm is better than another in relationship to its ability to help students improve test scores. Since the No Child Left Behind law requires annual testing for every child from third to twelfth grade, reading is an …

Writer's Workshop: Teaching Students To Own Their Work, Amanda Kaye Naimy

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis shows one way of presenting a writing process to students in conjunction with other writing programs which are mandated to be taught by the school district.

The Effectiveness Of Direct Vocabulary Instruction Strategies To Increase The Comprehension Of Fifth Grade Students During Social Studies Lessons, Octavio Rodolfo Gamez

Theses Digitization Project

Designed to answer the overarching question: does the implementation of direct vocabulary instruction strategies improve the comprehension of fifth grade students during the social studies lessons? The study included three fifth grade classes in the Corona-Norco Unified School District. To answer the question seven areas were considered: lesson selection, word selection, developing a vocabulary note guide, developing the test with a rubric, making handouts with critical analysis questions, designing semantic maps and semantic feature analysis handouts of the lesson design. Results showed that students who received the direct instruction in vocabulary words benefited greatly and in most cases doubled their …

Use Of Read Alouds To Increase Reading Comprehension, Heather Cynthia Williams

Theses Digitization Project

There is a shift from learning to read towards reading to learn beginning in the fourth grade. This project focuses on the use of read alouds to teach concepts such as inference, generalization, and drawing conclusions to increase reading comprehension in fourth graders.

Read To A Child And Change The World, Dorothy Famolare

Undergraduate Review

No abstract provided.

Ivy Leaves, 2006, Ivy Leaves Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The 2006 edition of the Anderson University journal of art and literature, Ivy Leaves.

The names of the known editors for this issue of Ivy Leaves were Jill Ayers, Cassie Kolasky, Maghan Lusk, Ashley McAdams, Jess Sopolosky, Danielle Webb, Kristy Eppolito, Wayne Cox, and Eric Whitlock.

Documentary Editing, Volume 28, Number 4, Winter 2006.

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

No abstract provided.

Ade Committees 2006-2007

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Officers--Committees

Presidential Address--A Salute, Roger Bruns

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

I have enjoyed the presidency. It has been exhilarating. I especially loved the trips around the country in the Association's airplane-ADE One. This whole thing about being president has been heady. Of course there have been the lows. My job approval rating, for example-it is still around 8%. That hurts. At least ADE did not invade Iraq!

Ade Business Minutes, Quincy, Massachusetts, 20 October 2006-22 October 2006

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

President's Report--Secretary's Report--Treasurer's Report--Committee Reports

Chronicling The Early Court: A Look Back At Project's End, Robert P. Frankel Jr.

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

As I speak here today, the end is definitely near for The Documentary History of the Supreme Court We have sent back the page proofs for the eighth and final volume and are now scurrying to complete the index. On 31 December, the project will officially go out of business. Of course, it would be difficult to claim that we have rushed these volumes into print. The project began in 1977. People invariably will say: "You are telling me that it has taken thirty years for you to do a history of just the first ten years of the Court." …

Documentary Editing, Volume 28, Number 4, Winter 2006--Front Matter

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Cover--Photo of U.S. Supreme Court building--Title page--Publication information--Contents--Contributors

From Of The Gutter Of Obscenity: Review Of The Selected Papers Of Margaret Sanger, Volume 1: The Woman Rebel, 1900-1928. Edited By Esther Katz; Cathy Moran Hajo And Peter C. Engelman, Assistant Editors., Jimmy Wilkinson Meyer

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Esther Katz, PhD, editor and director of New York University's Margaret Sanger Papers Project (MSPP), plans four volumes in this series, with MS's activities in the international birth control movement to appear in Volume Four. In 2004 the journal Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries included The Woman Rebel, 7900-7928 on its list of "Outstanding Academic Titles.,,3 Volume Two, Birth Control Comes of Age, released in March of 2007, covers MS's life and work between 1928 and 1939.4 The goal of the series, says Katz, is "to highlight Sanger's distinctive voice and illumine the multiple narratives of her life and …

Recent Editions--Winter 2006

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

This quarterly bibliography of documentary editions recently published on subjects in the fields of American and British history, literature, and culture is generally restricted to scholarly first editions of English language works. In addition to the bibliographical references, Internet addresses are provided for the editorial project or the publisher.

Ade 28th Annual Meeting, Quincy, Massachusetts, 20-22 October 2006, Annual Meeting Session Summaries

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Documentary Editing Online: Three Case Studies in Digitizing Legacy Volumes--Explaining Who We Are as Editors--Preparing the Next Generation of Editors--The Impact Editions Have Exerted on Scholarship--Rewriting New England's and Women's Literary History--"The Law Is ... Uninteresting and Boundless": Documentary Editions of Legal Papers

Ade Treasurer's Report, Fiscal Year, September 1, 2005-August 31, 2006

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

The finances of the Association for Documentary Editing have improved over the last year. This year, we had an increase of $6,438 in the general budget, giving us unrestricted assets of nearly $61,000. This increase was a nice change from three consecutive years of minor deficit spending. The increase can be attributed to several things: first, there were approximately forty more dues-paying members this year; second, the dues increase was in effect for the entire year; third, interest rates more than doubled from the previous year; and finally, several of the expenditures were much less than budgeted. While the addition …