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The Dimensions of Reading Comprehension in Dutch Children: Is Differentiation by Text and Question Type Necessary?
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Muijselaar, Marloes M. L.; Swart, Nicole M.; Steenbeek-Planting, Esther G.; Droop, Mienke; Verhoeven, Ludo; de Jong, Peter F. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2017
Many recent studies have aimed to demonstrate that specific types of reading comprehension depend on different underlying cognitive abilities. In these studies, it is often implicitly assumed that reading comprehension is a multidimensional construct. The general aim of this study was to examine the dimensionality of a large pool of reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Foreign Countries, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
Size Does Not Matter, Frequency Does: Sensitivity to Orthographic Neighbors in Normal and Dyslexic Readers
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Marinus, Eva; de Jong, Peter F. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2010
This study examined the influence of the number of orthographically similar candidates, neighborhood size, on the word and pseudoword naming performance of normal, dyslexic, and beginning readers. Participants were 23 Dutch dyslexic fourth-graders matched to 23 fourth-grade chronological age controls and 17 second-grade reading age controls.…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Beginning Reading, Elementary School Students, Word Frequency
What Discrete and Serial Rapid Automatized Naming Can Reveal about Reading
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de Jong, Peter F. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2011
Serial rapid automized naming (RAN) has been often found to correlate more strongly with reading than discrete RAN. This study aimed to demonstrate that the strength of the RAN-reading fluency relationship is dependent on the format of both RAN and the reading task if the reading task consists of sight words. Seventy-one first-grade, 74…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Fluency, Sight Vocabulary, Reading
Effects of Repeated Reading on the Length Effect in Word and Pseudoword Reading
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Martens, Vanessa E. G.; de Jong, Peter F. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2008
In this study the effect of repeated reading on the acquisition of orthographic knowledge was examined. Acquisition of orthographic knowledge was assessed by the effect of word length on reading speed. We predicted that the effect of length in a set of words and pseudowords would decrease after the repeated reading of these (pseudo)words. The…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Dyslexia, Grade 5, Grade 4
The Use of Sublexical Clusters in Normal and Dyslexic Readers
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Marinus, Eva; de Jong, Peter F. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2008
The current study examined the use of sublexical clusters in normal and dyslexic readers. We focused primarily on onset consonantal clusters, but the use of rimes and digraphs was also considered. A segmentation paradigm, the separation of two adjacent letters in a word by a nonletter symbol, was used. We hypothesized that the effect of this…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Reading Rate, Elementary School Students, Adults
The Effect of Visual Word Features on the Acquisition of Orthographic Knowledge
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Martens, Vanessa E. G.; de Jong, Peter F. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2006
Research with adults has shown that the distortion of visual word features, and in particular of the multiletter features within words, hampers word recognition. In this study, "CaSe MiXiNg" was employed to examine the effect of disrupting visual word features on the acquisition of orthographic knowledge in children. During the training, 18…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Word Recognition, Reading Rate, Spelling