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Monitoring Reading Component Skills during a Word-Level Intervention for Adolescents with Limited Reading Proficiency
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Washburn, Jocelyn – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2023
This study examined incremental change for several reading component skills while adolescents were actively learning a word-level intervention and measured pre-/postintervention change in skills. Six ninth graders in two different classes participated during the 2019-2020 academic year. Primary analysis was based on an A-B single-case design…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Grade 9, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction
Controlling Speed in Component Skills of Reading Improves the Explanation of Reading Comprehension
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Goldhammer, Frank; Kroehne, Ulf; Hahnel, Carolin; De Boeck, Paul – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Efficiency in reading component skills is crucial for reading comprehension, as efficient subprocesses do not extensively consume limited cognitive resources, making them available for comprehension processes. Cognitive efficiency is typically measured with speeded tests of relatively easy items. Observed responses and response times indicate the…
Descriptors: Reading Rate, Reading Comprehension, Cognitive Ability, Reading Tests
The Role of Academic Language in Written Composition in Elementary and Middle School
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Truckenmiller, Adrea J.; Petscher, Yaacov – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
Academic language has been identified as an important focus for instructing students about the quality of written composition they need to be successful in college and career. However, the role of academic language in written composition achievement is not well understood. This study explores the role of academic language skills in students'…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Writing (Composition), Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
N400 Response Indexes Word Learning from Linguistic Context in Children
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Abel, Alyson D.; Schneider, Julie; Maguire, Mandy J – Language Learning and Development, 2018
Word learning from linguistic context is essential for vocabulary growth from grade school onward; however, little is known about the mechanisms underlying successful word learning in children. Current methods for studying word learning development require children to identify the meaning of the word after each exposure, a method that interacts…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Diagnostic Tests, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Language Acquisition
Reading Comprehension Level and Development in Native and Language Minority Adolescent Low Achievers: Roles of Linguistic and Metacognitive Knowledge and Fluency
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Trapman, Mirjam; van Gelderen, Amos; van Schooten, Erik; Hulstijn, Jan – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2017
In a longitudinal design, we measured 50 low-achieving adolescents' reading comprehension development from Grades 7 to 9. There were 24 native Dutch and 26 language minority students. In addition, we assessed the roles of (a) linguistic knowledge, (b) metacognitive knowledge, and (c) reading fluency in predicting both the level and growth of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Achievement, Adolescents, Low Achievement
Determination of Secondary School Students' Cognitive Structure, and Misconception in Ecological Concepts through Word Association Test
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Yücel, Elif Özata; Özkan, Mulis – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
In this study, we determined cognitive structures and misconceptions about basic ecological concepts by using "word association" tests on secondary school students, age between 12-14 years. Eighty-nine students participated in this study. Before WAT was generated, basic ecological concepts that take place in the secondary science…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Cognitive Structures, Misconceptions, Ecological Factors
Development of Adolescent Reading Comprehension in Language 1 and Language 2: A Longitudinal Analysis of Constituent Components
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van Gelderen, Amos; Schoonen, Rob; Stoel, Reinoud; de Glopper, Kees; Hulstijn, Jan – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
This study investigated the relationship between reading comprehension development of 389 adolescents in their dominant language (Language 1 [L1], Dutch) and a foreign language (Language 2 [L2], English). In each consecutive year from Grades 8 through 10, a number of measurements were taken. Students' reading comprehension, their linguistic…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Word Recognition, Sentences, Metacognition