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Les facteurs qui inspirent la lecture chez les garçons en immersion française au deuxième cycle de l’élémentaire
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This action research explores the factors that inspire reading in a second language for a group of grade 5 boys in a French Immersion classroom. During this research, a grade 5 classroom participated in a reading workshop. This approach gave me insights on the multiple layers teachers must...
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Literacy Learning in Playful Spaces: Using Multimodal Strategies to Develop Narrative with Young Learners
Download2011-01-31
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2011: The initial two-year phase of the project is primarily interested in examining the possibilities for using touch screen (ipad) technologies with young learners when they are used as a means to facilitate the creation, modification and use of children’s own multimodal...
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2017-08-24
SSHRC PEG awarded 2017:This project represents the initial phase of what we hope will become a larger, interdisciplinary, collaborative project investigating the circulation and reception of migration stories in different regions of the world.Our international research team is well positioned to...
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Fall 2016
Background. Context use in sentence comprehension is fairly resistant to age-related cognitive decline; however, event-related potentials (ERPs) studies have shown age effects in neural activity associated with sentence comprehension, specifically when contextual information is manipulated. One...
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2010
Children learn to read at approximately the same stage in life as they start to master their physical environment. This article argues that some of the same mapping and schema-building strategies inform each activity, and draws on examples from a broad range of children’s books to support the...
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2017-04-18
We evaluated two experimenter-delivered, small group word reading programs among at-risk poor readers in grade 1 classes of regular elementary schools using a two-arm dual site matched control trial intervention. Readers with word reading scores below the 30th percentile (n = 201) were deemed...
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Spring 2018
Objective: Reading is a complex behaviour requiring the connectivity of numerous brain regions. Resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI) has recently been used to examine the differences in reading networks in skilled adult readers and skilled and impaired child readers. Such...
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Fall 2015
This dissertation presents research on second language (L2) incidental vocabulary acquisition through reading and listening. Data for this research were collected in the EFL context of Iran, from Iranian undergraduate students, at an intermediate level of EFL proficiency, who were majoring in...