Reading Comprehension Strategies for Adult Literacy Outcomes

Reading Comprehension Strategies for Adult Literacy Outcomes.

Although research on improving child literacy is converging, no such body of research exists for adult literacy. Yet the need is no less significant. This study extends the knowledge garnered with younger populations by determining the reading comprehension strategies most important to adults' success on adult literacy outcome measures and aligning them with previously researched interventions....

Reading Strategies and Learning outcomes

iSTART-ALL: Confronting Adult Low Literacy with Intelligent Tutoring for Reading Comprehension

There is little empirical research available on the substantial problem of adult low literacy rates, and limited educational technologies are available to address distinct instructional needs of this population. This paper reports on development and testing of a version of Interactive Strategy Training for Active Reading and Thinking (iSTART) for Adult Literacy Learners (iSTART-ALL) We describe...

Reading Strategies and Hypertext 1 Running head: READING STRATEGIES AND HYPERTEXT COMPREHENSION Reading Strategies and Hypertext Comprehension

The literature on assessing the cognitive processes involved in hypertext comprehension during the last fifteen years has yielded contradictory results. In this paper we explored a possible factor affecting this situation, mainly the potential effects on comprehension of reading strategies in hypertext. In experiment 1, results showed that reading strategies affect selectively the textbase and ...

Reading Strategies, Learning Styles and Reading Comprehension: A Correlation Study

This study aimed to measure the correlations between reading strategies, learning styles and reading comprehension of the Saudi EFL college learners' English reading comprehension. This study used a survey and two IELTS reading passages that vary in difficulty levels. The purpose was to show how two different reading strategies affect EFL students' reading comprehension. The study further exami...