The Impact of Phonological-Awareness and Rapid-Reading Training on the Reading Skills of Adolescent and Adult Neoliterates

This study compares the reading performance of adolescent and adult neoliterates in Burkina Faso who participated in one of three experimental educational programs with the reading performance of neoliterates who took part in a standard (control) educational program. The experimental programs involved training in phonological awareness, training in the rapid identification of reading material and an approach that involved both phonological-awareness and rapid-reading training. Results show that students enrolled in the experimental programs made greater gains in reading skills than did students enrolled in the standard educational programs.     

The Impact of Phonological-Awareness and Rapid-Reading Training on the Reading Skills of Adolescent and Adult Neoliterates

This study compares the reading performance of adolescent and adult neoliterates in Burkina Faso who participated in one of three experimental educational programs with the reading performance of neoliterates who took part in a standard (control) educational program. The experimental programs involved training in phonological awareness, training in the rapid identification of reading material and an approach that involved both phonological-awareness and rapid-reading training. Results show that students enrolled in the experimental programs made greater gains in reading skills than did students enrolled in the standard educational programs.     

让教育名著“活”起来——上好教育名著导读课

教育名著导读课是目前在我国高等教育师范专业中广泛开设的一门基础课程。教育名著往往浓缩了特定时代的教育精华,探讨了人类教育中最本质,最普遍的问题。因此,阅读教育名著对于每一位有志于从事教育事业的理论研究人员和实践教学工作者都是不可逾越的一门必修课。高等院校师范专业开设教育名著导读课,对于即将成为教育工作者的学生今后的工作、学习有着非常重要的影响,上好《导读》课关系到高等院校师范专业未来的发展。如何上好导读课？教育名著的选读、解读、阅读、讨论就成为四个非常重要的环节。     

对语文阅读教学模式的思考

阅读教学在语文教学中处于基础和核心地位。分析“整体阅读教学模式”、“探究性阅读教学模式”、“创设情境阅读教学模式”这几种新型的阅读教学模式,有的强调培养学生的整体意识、大局观念,有的注重培养学生的探究能力,有的注意发展学生的创造性思维,各有所长。我们从中得到的启示是：语文阅读教学应回归学生个体,主张个性化阅读;应培养学生探究能力,发展主体性阅读;应激发学生阅读兴趣,倡导开放性阅读。     

适应市场经济 改革教材建设

市场经济对教材建设提出了新的要求,教材建设必须适应教学改革的发展,必须建立在科学研究的基础上,它是学科建设的一个重要方面。要进行教育改革,必改进教材建设,改进教材建设,必适应市场经济。     

Gendered pathways to educational aspirations: The role of academic self-concept,school burnout,achievement and interest in mathematics and reading

The aim of this study was to examine lower secondary school students' (N = 1152) pathways to educational aspirations. The study used multi-group structural equation modelling to investigate the predictions of academic self-concept, school burnout, achievement, and interest in mathematics and reading, in relation to educational aspirations for boys and girls. While certain factors were influential for students' academic aspirations irrespective of gender, some interesting differences also emerged. Academic self-concept and interest in reading predicted educational aspirations for both groups. However, gendered pathways emerged in how achievement and interest in mathematics predicted educational aspirations. Interest in mathematics predicted girls’ educational aspirations, whereas mathematics achievement was a significant predictor for boys. School burnout had negative indirect effects through interest in reading and mathematics in both groups, but for girls, there was also a direct positive effect on educational aspirations.     

Levelling the reading gap: a socio‐spatial study of school libraries and reading in Singapore

This article takes a comparative socio‐spatial approach at the intersection of social class and reading politics to provide a fresh way of examining school reading policies and practices, unearthing previously hidden spaces of inequity for reading intervention. The juxtaposition of two nested case studies in Singapore, one of an elite all‐boys' school and another of a co‐educational government school with students in different academic tracks, revealed inequitable practices, specifically in the designs and uses of school library spaces between schools serving different social classes. The study argues that attempts to design reading interventions should move away from the view of student‐as‐problem to structure‐as‐problem in order to discover new perspectives for reading intervention. Additionally, this study demonstrates how foregrounding social class in educational research is necessary for effective design of educational strategies that aim to transform education and society by narrowing the gap between students from different social classes.     

Students with reading and spelling disabilities: peer groups and educational attainment in secondary education

The present study investigated whether the members of adolescents' peer groups are similar in reading and spelling disabilities and whether this similarity contributes to subsequent school achievement and educational attainment. The sample consisted of 375 Finnish adolescents whose reading and spelling disabilities were assessed at age 16 with the Finnish dyslexia screening test. The students also completed a sociometric nomination measure that was used to identify their peer groups. Register information on participants' school grades also was available, and educational attainment in secondary education was recorded 5 years after completion of the 9 years of basic education. The results revealed that the members of adolescent peer groups resembled each other in reading disabilities but not in those of spelling. Reading disabilities and academic achievement shared within the peer group also contributed to educational attainment in secondary education. Finally, reading disabilities played a larger role in educational attainment among males than among females.     

Tracing reading to the dark side: investigating the policy producing reading and readers in detention homes

ABSTRACT

Both inside and outside educational settings, reading literature is emphasized as something good, perhaps even something that makes us better people. This paper aims to open the ‘black-boxed’ conception of reading by studying how reading and (non)readers are conceptualized in relation to young people taken into custody. I examine a policy document describing a reading project in detention homes for young people as a case in which reading is perceived as having specific effects. Actor-network theory is used as a methodological approach to call attention to the way ideas, values, and knowledge about educational content are produced. The analysis shows that the seemingly coherent policy document produces radically different versions of what reading is and who the readers and non-readers are. I conclude that conceptualizations of reading and literacy always involve the creation of ‘a dark side of reading’; the strong construction of ‘reading as doing good’ has marginalizing effects.     

Externalizing behavior problems and interest in reading as predictors of later reading skills and educational aspirations

This study examined the developments in children’s externalizing problems and interest in reading during their first four years of school (Grades 1–4) and investigated whether this development predicted the children’s Grade 6 reading skills and educational aspirations. Data comprised (1) teachers’ ratings of externalizing problems and children’s (N = 642; 43% girls) self-ratings of their interest in reading, collected between Grades 1 and 4, and (2) measures of reading fluency and comprehension, and children’s self-reports of educational aspirations, collected at Grade 6. First, latent growth modeling showed that a higher level of externalizing problems in Grade 1 was associated with a lower concurrent interest in reading. Second, a positive association between the initial level of interest in reading and a linear change in externalizing problems indicated that children with a lower interest in reading in Grade 1 were rated by teachers as exhibiting higher levels of externalizing problems, which nonetheless declined over the course of their first four years of school more than among other children. Third, a higher initial level of externalizing problems with a linear change in these problems across Grades 1–4 was a predictor of lower subsequent educational aspirations and poorer reading comprehension in Grade 6. Analysis of the indirect effects indicated that a higher level of externalizing problems was associated with a lower concurrent interest in reading, which, in turn, was related to poorer future reading fluency and lower educational aspirations. The findings imply that problem behaviors are interlinked with academic skill development and motivation across the first six years of school.     

教师关于教育类专业阅读状况的调查研究

通过自行设计的调查问卷,对教师的教育类专业阅读状况进行调查,并运用访谈法访谈五位教师。研究发现:从整体上看,虽然教师的教育类专业阅读状况较好,但大多数教师属于功利性阅读,只阅读直接与课堂教学相关的教学类专业期刊,而其它三类教育专业书刊的阅读情况较差。为了更好地实现教育类专业阅读的专业发展价值,需要引导教师转变单纯的功利性专业阅读取向,多做涵养性的专业阅读;为更多的教师提供高层次培训的机会,在学习共同体中进行有效的专业阅读;营造专业阅读的氛围,为教师专业阅读创造有利的条件。     

对学前教育专业学生教育预设观念的审视和重构——以高职学前教育专业开展专业读写活动的实践为例

对学前教育专业学生的教育预设观念进行审视之后发现:重构其原有的教育预设观念,促使她们确立系统化、专业化的学前教育观念,是摆在高职学前教育专业教师面前的紧迫课题;应在建构主义指导下构建学前教育专业学生的专业化教育观;在学前教育专业学生中开展紧密联系实践的专业读写活动,建立专业读写活动的长效机制,是重构本专业学生教育观念的一种有效途径。     

由叶圣陶“读整本书”思想谈小学整本书阅读

"读整本书"是叶圣陶语文教育思想的重要组成部分。学校要从学生年龄特点、读物特点、阅读能力元素出发对整本书阅读进行指导,在阅读过程中培养学生良好的阅读习惯,同时发展语言,锻炼思维,丰富体验。     

小学语文阅读教学有效性策略解析

在教育工作中让学生掌握一定的学习技巧并能收获良好的学习效果,既是教育者的工作目的,也是教育工作的价值体现。在小学语文教育中,教师应了解在小学语文阅读中存在的教学问题,并与学生、家长和其他教育工作者进行交流,找出问题出现的原因,进一步提出针对性的有效策略并应用在语文阅读教学过程中,使学生全程参与并获得更多的语文阅读知识。     

基于教育资源平台的小学语文有效阅读教学研究

基于教育资源应用平台开展小学语文阅读教学,具有资源丰富、形式新颖的特点,能激发学生阅读兴趣,是提升小学语文阅读教学有效性的重要途径。     

新课改背景下小学语文阅读教学策略的分析

在今天新课程改革的教育环境下,广大教师受到了素质教育理念的影响,将阅读视作了践行素质教育理念的重要内容。基于此,作为一名新课改背景下的小学语文教师,我们应仔细思索新课改下的教育理念,创设出能够发挥学生阅读主动性的教学策略,从而培养学生自主阅读书籍的良好习惯,达到丰富学生知识储备、提升学生文化修养以及小学语文阅读教学质量的目的。     

高职高专英语课外阅读的生态创生

英语课外阅读所形成的生态创生环境对英语学习的影响是高职高专英语教学中不可忽视的。本研究结合学校本专项课外阅读活动和＂生态创生教育＂理论,探讨了教育系统与教育环境相互适应的可能性,即课外阅读所形成的英语学习环境对学生学习的整体性提高的影响,以及在高职院校的英语教学中达到在理论教学和实践教学、课内学习与课外学习、教师与学生之间保持自然的平衡。     

Learning Disabilities in Guatemala and Spain: A Cross‐National Study of the Prevalence and Cognitive Processes Associated with Reading and Spelling Disabilities

The main purposes of this research were twofold. We examined the samenesses about learning disabilities (LD) in Guatemala and Spain, two countries with the same language but cultural, political, and educational differences, first analyzing data about the prevalence of reading and spelling disabilities in Guatemala City and the Spanish region of the Canary Islands. The focus of the second study was to determine whether there are cross‐national patterns of significant differences in cognitive processes associated with reading and spelling disabilities from a developmental approach in these two cultural contexts. We found some differences in the prevalence of specific LD in reading between both countries but we did not find significant differences between Guatemalan and Spanish reading‐disabled children in cognitive processes that are involved in reading and spelling acquisition in spite of the cultural and educational differences between the two countries.     

试论分享阅读与幼儿成长

早期阅读,是幼儿智力成长的重要手段,也是幼儿国语言教育的核心组成部分。本文通过分析分享阅读——一种有效的阅读手段,在幼儿成长中所产生的巨大作用,来论述分享阅读的教育价值。     

Reading Together: Capitalising on inter-disciplinary work in the development and refinement of reading tests

The present article provides further evidence of the growing involvement of educational psychologists in inter-disciplinary work. Drawing on the experience of an ongoing national reading test development project, the article describes how educational psychologists and linguists have successfully managed to combine professional knowledge and expertise to create and refine a group reading test. It reports on the innovative approach to reading test development that has emerged from this inter-disciplinary work. That is, how electronically stored language corpora (bodies of electronically stored text) and the employment of corpus analysis software can help to secure the content validity of reading tests. The article concludes by emphasising the growing accessibility of new software tools and suggests that there is increasing scope for inter-disciplinary involvement in the area of reading. It also comments on the potential of this approach in the understanding and assessment of dyslexia.