This article discusses conceptual and empirical elements concerning the development of cognitive processes that function as precursors of reading, and their association with the acquisition of reading skills in an adult ...

This action research study focuses on measuring the impact of a Free Voluntary Reading Program on students’ active vocabulary use and self-direction in language learning in two different programs of English as a foreign ...

Two studies examined the effects of specific reading styles on vocabulary learning of at-risk preschool Chilean children (aged 3-5 yrs.) during shared book reading. Study 1 examined the effect of explicit instruction of ...

Research into second language (L2) reading is an exponentially growing field. Yet, it still has a relatively short supply of comparable, ecologically valid data from readers representing a variety of first languages (L1). ...

The present inquiry presents an analysis on the teaching of reading in the first cycle of the basic teaching. The reading must be a significant process of apprenticeship that makes possible to the child the construction ...

Reading is a complex ability that involves a set of discriminated operants. In exposure to discrimination teaching with printed words the elements are combined and recombined in new words that control how to read the new ...