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The Effects of Morphemic Vocabulary Instruction on Prefix Vocabulary and Sentence Comprehension for Middle School Students with Learning Disabilities
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Brown, Shannon Harris; Lignugaris-Kraft, Benjamin; Forbush, David E. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2016
A limited vocabulary is a substantial obstacle to success in reading comprehension (Graves, 2004). A morphemic approach to vocabulary instruction may be an effective method for increasing student outcomes in both word knowledge and reading comprehension (Kuo & Anderson, 2006; Reed, 2008). The purpose of this research was to examine the effects…
Descriptors: Sentences, Learning Disabilities, Middle School Students, Morphemes
Determination of Hearing-Impaired Students' Requirements for Editing and Revision of Written Texts
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Karasu, H. Pelin – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2014
The editing and revision stages are an important part of the writing process. This study documented the types of revisions, revision units, and revision methods used during writing conferences with hearing-impaired students. The study included seventeen hearing-impaired students educated with the auditory/oral approach and enrolled in grades six…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Editing, Revision (Written Composition), Grade 6
Syntactic and Discourse Skills in Chinese Adolescent Readers with Dyslexia: A Profiling Study
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Chung, Kevin K. H.; Lo, Jason C. M.; Ho, Connie S.-H.; Xiao, Xiaoyun; Chan, David W. – Annals of Dyslexia, 2014
This study aims to investigate the relation of syntactic and discourse skills to morphological skills, rapid naming, and working memory in Chinese adolescent readers with dyslexia and to examine their cognitive-linguistic profiles. Fifty-two dyslexic readers (mean age, 13;42) from grade 7 to 9 in Hong Kong high schools were compared with 52…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Naming, Short Term Memory, Syntax
Morphological Contributions to Adolescent Word Reading: An Item Response Approach
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Goodwin, Amanda P.; Gilbert, Jennifer K.; Cho, Sun-Joo – Reading Research Quarterly, 2013
The current study uses a crossed random-effects item response model to simultaneously examine both reader and word characteristics and interactions between them that predict the reading of 39 morphologically complex words for 221 middle school students. Results suggest that a reader's ability to read a root word (e.g., "isolate") predicts that…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Morphemes, Semantics, Reading Comprehension
Mindful of Words: Spelling and Vocabulary Explorations 4-8
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Ganske, Kathy – Guilford Publications, 2008
This book provides tools to enhance upper-level spelling and vocabulary instruction, and features more than 120 reproducible sorting activities and games. It offers suggestions for helping students build mastery of vowel patterns, syllable structure, syllable stress, consonant and vowel alternations, compound words, prefixes, suffixes, and word…
Descriptors: Sentences, Spelling, Syllables, Vowels
The Acquisition of Pronominal Case-Marking by Japanese Learners of English
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Suda, Koji; Wakabayashi, Shigenori – Second Language Research, 2007
Eighty-one seventh- and eighth-grade students (age 12-14) learning English in Japanese classrooms were tested on their knowledge of English case-marked pronouns in sentences like "He likes her," *"He likes she" and *"Him likes her." The aim of the study was to evaluate the predictions of three theories of second…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Sentence Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning