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Direct linkGrace, Abbie; Kemp, Nenagh; Martin, Frances Heritage; Parrila, Rauno – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
Research investigating whether people's literacy skill is being affected by the use of text messaging language has produced largely positive results for children, but mixed results for adults. We asked 150 undergraduate university students in Western Canada and 86 in South Eastern Australia to supply naturalistic text messages and to complete…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Reading Skills, Spelling
McGonnell, Melissa; Parrila, Rauno; Deacon, S. Helene – Exceptionality Education Canada, 2007
Self-report is a time- and cost-efficient screening measure that has the potential to be useful as a stand-alone means of recruiting adults for participation in reading research. We report on a sample of university students (N=46) recruited using the Adult Reading History Questionnaire-Revised, half of whom reported early difficulty with reading…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Student Recruitment, Reading Difficulties, Reading Research
