Decoding, spelling, and text comprehension skills: comparative studies examining the effects of various instructional strategies targeting basic skills and text comprehension with 7-8 year-old international school students

Diplôme Thèse Decoding, spelling, and text comprehension skills: comparative studies examining the effects of various instructional strategies targeting basic skills and text comprehension with 7-8 year-old international school students eng 2017-06-22 author Gabor Gyorgyi Georgina 713246 director Zesiger Pascal Eric 0000-0002-7450-4899 24163 director Schneuwly Bernard 0000-0002-3672-9800 26396 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:96248 urn:nbn:ch:unige-962483 FPSE 668 This thesis project focused on the effects of intervention comparing basic skills and text comprehension instruction with 7-8 year-old students. A sequel of three studies over the course of three academic years had been carried out. Each study used different instructional strategies in order to find out how targeted training exerts its effects on output measures of basic skills and text comprehension. It was found that integrative methods simultaneously involving basic skills and text comprehension instruction are beneficial. Basic skills training had transfer effect to sentence comprehension skills. Text comprehension did not improve without explicit, targeted instruction. In addition, the findings provide empirical evidence for effective ways for treating poor comprehension in the presence of fluent and accurate decoding skills. Decoding and spelling appeared to be independent skills dissociated from each other. Dewey 370 109 Section des sciences de l'éducation 72 false ba534c1b-58d5-4e32-87a1-8c64966ca109 Thesis Restricted GGabor_THESIS No 668_FINAL to be printed.pdf 4282468 application/pdf 458c9ca16cde56a6595017ad5c021a14bcf6b9c4f1fe0a1c36db841490e35369 restrictedAccess Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section des sciences de l'éducation

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