There is intense public interest in questions surrounding how children learn to read and how
they can best be taught. Research in psychological science has provided answers to many …

Generative learning involves actively making sense of to-be-learned information by mentally
reorganizing and integrating it with one's prior knowledge, thereby enabling learners to …

Reading comprehension is one of the most complex cognitive activities in which humans
engage, making it difficult to teach, measure, and research. Despite decades of research in …

We reintroduce a wide-angle view of reading comprehension, the Reading Systems
Framework, which places word knowledge in the center of the picture, taking into account …

Pathways of relations of language, cognitive, and literacy skills (ie, working memory,
vocabulary, grammatical knowledge, inference, comprehension monitoring, word reading …

This study explored differences that might exist in comprehension when students read digital
and print texts. Ninety undergraduates read both digital and print versions of newspaper …

Motivation is one of the important factors which impact greatly on language learning. One of
the most important factors which receives the special focus in foreign language teaching is …

Practical, effective, evidence-based reading interventions that change students' lives
Essentials of Understanding and Assessing Reading Difficulties is a practical, accessible, in …

Reading in a Second Language: Moving from Theory to Practice Bill Grabe Table of
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Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the multimedia learning. Multimedia learning
occurs when a learner builds a mental representation from words and pictures that have …