Browsing The reading centre by Subject "literacy"
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Advances in the study of handwritten letters: Influential factors, measures and methods
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2024)ENGLISH ABSTRACT This thesis is an in-depth exploration of factors that influence penmovement fluency when beginning writers form single letters by hand. More specifically, the aim is to explore how factors within the ... -
Aspects of fluency in writing
(Journal article, 2007-04)The notion of ‘fluency’ is most often associated with spoken-language phenomena such as stuttering. The present article investigates the relevance of considering fluency in writing. The basic argument for raising this ... -
Children’s Olfactory Picturebooks: Charting New Trends in Early Childhood Education
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-03)Converging global trends (digitization, globalization, datafication) have influenced all aspects of children’s literacies, including children’s picturebooks. The recent turn towards embodied, affective and sensory literacies, ... -
”Det rister litt i hjernen” : En studie av møtet mellom høytpresterende elever i videregående skole og litteraturfaglig praksis
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2017-09)The dissertation "Det rister litt i hjernen". En studie av møtet mellom høytpresterende elever i videregående skole og litteraturfaglig praksis [“My Brain Is Rattling”. A Study of the Dialogue Between High-Ahieving Upper ... -
Developmental Dynamics of Early Reading Skill, Literacy Interest and Reader Self-Concept Within the First Year of Formal Schooling
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-04)Previous studies have documented robust relationships between emergent literacy and later reading performance. A growing body of research has also reported associations between motivational factors and reading in early ... -
Do You Get the Picture? A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Graphics on Reading Comprehension
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-01)Although convergent research demonstrates that well-designed graphics can facilitate readers’ understanding of text, there are select situations where graphics have been shown to have no effect on learners’ overall text ... -
Does Introducing the Letters Faster Boost the Development of Children’s Letter Knowledge, Word Reading and Spelling in the First Year of School?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-05)Learning the relationships between letters and sounds is a key component of early literacy development and a central aim during the first year of school. Introducing one new letter a week is the most common approach in ... -
An empirical investigation of parent-child shared reading of digital personalized books
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-12)Numerous studies have documented the benefits of parent-child shared reading of print books, but few studies have examined parent-child reading behaviours with digital personalized books. This lab-based study examined the ... -
Free access to multilingual digital books: a tool to increase book reading?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The objective of the study was to examine how providing access to multilingual digital picture books affected the reading habits and language development of children from bilingual families. The study included 41 children ... -
(Geo)grafiske representasjoner i ungdomsskolens samfunnsfag: En case-studie av hvordan en ungdomsskolelærer og hans elever skaper literacy-praksiser i møte med grafiske representasjoner i samfunnsfag
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2020-09)Denne avhandlingen bygger på en tese om at fagspesifikk literacy kan gi et godt grep om spenningen i undervisningens dobbeltrolle: Samfunnsfaget ses både som et fag som skal læres og som skal anvendes – og for å forstå et ... -
Glimpses of dialogue: transitional practices in digitalised classrooms
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-08)This socio-culturally informed qualitative study examines digitalised classrooms in Norwegian secondary schools, with a focus on the relationship between information and communication technology (ICT) and dialogic aspects ... -
Handwriting versus keyboarding in first grade: Which modality best supports written composition performance and learning?
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2023-03)An important background for the present thesis is the increasing digitalisation in school, and more specifically, the Norwegian first-grade reality, where a growing number of schools provide students with personal digital ... -
Hypertext fiction reading: haptics and immersion
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2008)Reading is a multi-sensory activity, entailing perceptual, cognitive and motor interactions with whatever is being read. With digital technology, reading manifests itself as being extensively multi-sensory – both in more ... -
The importance of sensorial and spatial aspects in family reading at home: Insights from a national survey in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Purpose The study investigated the relationships between spatial, multisensorial, and structural factors in family reading routines. Materials 1001 survey responses and 926 open-ended answers of parents of 3- to ... -
Leseopplæring i norskfagets begynneropplæring med fokus på fagspesifikk lesekompetanse
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-04)Distinksjonen knyttet til generell og fagspesifikk lese- og skriveopplæring i fagene har fått fornyet interesse både i norsk og internasjonal sammenheng. Denne artikkelen diskuterer hva dette betyr i norskfagets ... -
Literacy practices in co-taught early years classrooms. Study protocol: The Seaside case.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-01)The present protocol describes the background, theoretical framework and methods for a qualitative study of co-taught, Norwegian, L1 classrooms—The Seaside case. The participants are six classes and their teachers from six ... -
Literary Reading on Paper and Screens: Associations Between Reading Habits and Preferences and Experiencing Meaningfulness
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024-01)The increasing use of digital technologies has implications for reading. Online and on-screen reading often consist of engaging with multiple, short, multimedia snippets of information, whereas longform reading is in ... -
Litteraturfaglig praksis: Avgangselevers retrospektive blikk på arbeid med litterære tekster i videregående skole
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-06)I en tid der den norske skolens oppdrag og rolle for fremtiden er oppe til diskusjon og revidering (NOU 2015:8), trer den kontinuerlige forhandlingen mellom fagenes tradisjon og nye strømninger tydelig frem. Denne ... -
Minding metaphors : Rethinking the ecology of written language
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)The field of reading and literacy studies has undergone large changes in the past three decades. A branch referred to as New Literacy Studies has established itself alongside the traditional school of psychological reading ... -
A Model of the Home Literacy Environment and Family Risk of Reading Difficulty in Relation to Children’s Preschool Emergent Literacy
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This study extends the research on the preschool home literacy environment (HLE) in the context of the family risk (FR) of reading disability (RD) by examining a multiple-deficit model of RD. A total of 1171 six-year-old ...