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Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
Two groups of freshman students, enrolled in a Vocabulary I and Reading I courses, participated in the study. Before instruction, both groups took a recognition (vocabulary) and a production (oral reading) pre-test. Comparisons of the pre-test scores showed no significant differences between the experimental and control group in decoding skills…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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John Z. Strong; Blythe E. Anderson – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2024
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of an 18-day summer tutoring program in which graduate student tutors delivered 15 minutes of differentiated reading instruction (DRI) and a 30-minute interactive read-aloud (IRA) lesson each day. Students in grades K-5 (N = 179) attending a summer program at one urban elementary school…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Reading Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Elementary School Students
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Sayeski, Kristin L.; Earle, Gentry A.; Eslinger, R. Paige; Whitenton, Jessy N. – Annals of Dyslexia, 2017
Matching phonemes (speech sounds) to graphemes (letters and letter combinations) is an important aspect of decoding (translating print to speech) and encoding (translating speech to print). Yet, many teacher candidates do not receive explicit training in phoneme-grapheme correspondence. Difficulty with accurate phoneme production and/or lack of…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Preservice Teachers, Mastery Learning, Knowledge Level
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Ijalba, Elizabeth; Obler, Loraine K. – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2015
The Spanish writing system has consistent grapheme-to-phoneme correspondences (GPC), rendering it more transparent than English. We compared first-language (L1) orthographic transparency on how monolingual English- and Spanish-readers learned a novel writing system with a 1:1 (LT) and a 1:2 (LO) GPC. Our dependent variables were learning time,…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Spanish
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2010
Spelling error corpora can be collected from students' written essays, homework, dictations, translations, tests and lecture notes. Spelling errors can be classified into whole word errors, faulty graphemes and faulty phonemes in which graphemes are deleted, added, reversed or substituted. They can be used for identifying phonological and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Spelling, Error Patterns
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Papadima-Sophocleous, Salomi; Charalambous, Marina – The EUROCALL Review, 2014
In recent years the use of new technologies has been extensively explored in different aspects of language learning pedagogy. The objective of this research was to investigate the impact Repeated Reading activity, supported by iPod Touch could have on the English Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) of second language university students with Special…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Handheld Devices, Oral Reading, Reading Fluency