This meta-analysis summarizes teaching effectiveness studies of the past decade and
investigates the role of theory and research design in disentangling results. Compared to …

Motivation research is central to understanding why certain students exhibit high levels of
behavioral, cognitive, and emotional engagement with learning, and why others lack …

Over the past 40 years, Jim Cummins has proposed a number of highly influential theoretical
concepts, including the threshold and interdependence hypotheses and the distinction …

Reading in a Second Language: Moving from Theory to Practice Bill Grabe Table of
Contents Preface Section I: Foundations of Reading Comprehension 1. The Nature of …

The article discusses the role of student motivation in literacy learning. According to the
author, student motivation and engagement with reading has great significance for reading …

Now in a revised and updated fourth edition incorporating current advances in research and
instructional practices, this well-established text accessibly introduces prominent theories …

Based on an engagement perspective of reading development, we investigated the extent to
which an instructional framework of combining motivation support and strategy instruction …

Young children who enjoy reading do it more often and they tend to become skilled at it.
Poor readers, by contrast, often display low motivation to read. One possible explanation of …

Motivation is only one of many complex, interacting factors that contribute to the acquisition
and exercise of reading pro ficiency. Nonetheless, it has generated a tremen dous amount of …

This lively collection of over 100 classroom activities allows teachers to exploit fully the
language learning potential of extensive reading. The activities, contributed by teachers who …