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Wrapping up Sentence Comprehension: The Role of Task Demands and Individual Differences
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Andrews, Sally; Veldre, Aaron – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2021
This study used wrap-up effects on eye movements to assess the relationship between online reading behavior and comprehension. Participants, assessed on measures of reading, vocabulary, and spelling, read short passages that manipulated whether a syntactic boundary was "unmarked" by punctuation, "weakly marked" by a comma, or…
Descriptors: Sentences, Punctuation, Cues, Reading Comprehension
Learning Morphologically Complex Spoken Words: Orthographic Expectations of Embedded Stems Are Formed Prior to Print Exposure
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Beyersmann, Elisabeth; Wegener, Signy; Nation, Kate; Prokupzcuk, Ayako; Wang, Hua-Chen; Castles, Anne – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
It is well known that information from spoken language is integrated into reading processes, but the nature of these links and how they are acquired is less well understood. Recent evidence has suggested that predictions about the written form of newly learned spoken words are already generated prior to print exposure. We extend this work to…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Morphology (Languages), Morphemes, Reading Processes
Reading Direction Influences Lateral Biases in Letter Processing
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Ransley, Kim; Goodbourn, Patrick T.; Nguyen, Elizabeth H. L.; Moustafa, Ahmed A.; Holcombe, Alex O. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
Humans have a limited capacity to identify concurrent, briefly presented targets. Recent experiments using concurrent rapid serial visual presentation of letters in horizontally displaced streams have documented a deficit specific to the stream in the right visual field. The cause of this deficit might be either prioritization of the left item…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Reading Processes, Brain Hemisphere Functions, English
Comparing the Performance of Older Low-Progress Readers on the York Assessment of Reading for Comprehension with Performance on the Neale Analysis of Reading Ability and Other Measures of Reading and Related Skills
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Wheldall, Kevin; Arakelian, Sarah – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2016
The aim of this study was to compare the York Assessment of Reading for Comprehension (YARC) with the Neale Analysis of Reading Ability (NARA) and other measures of reading and related skills with a sample of older low-progress readers and to provide additional information regarding the validity of the YARC in Australia. The data from an…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Reading Ability, Foreign Countries
A Comparison of the Reading Achievement of Queensland Year 5 Pupils between 1971, 1976 and 1981.
McBryde, Bruce; And Others – 1982
In 1981, the reading achievement of a representative sample of Queensland (Australia) Year 5 students was assessed by using a test that measured skills in the areas of vocabulary, comprehension, and speed of reading. The aim of this testing was to compare reading achievement in 1981 with reading achievement in 1971 and 1976. Comparisons of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
A Comparison of the Reading Achievement of Queensland Year 5 Pupils between 1971 and 1977.
Duck, Greg – 1979
The 1976 reading achievement scores of year 5 pupils in Queensland (Australia) primary schools were compared with the scores of year 5 pupils in 1971, using Reading Test QR5. The sample included 1,754 students in 111 primary schools. Analysis of the results showed that scores for vocabulary development, comprehension of implied meaning, and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Followup Studies, Foreign Countries