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Georgiou, George K.; Parrila, Rauno; Liao, Chen-Huei – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2008
The objective of this study was to examine how rapid naming speed is related to reading ability across languages that vary in orthographic consistency. Forty English-speaking Canadian children, 40 Greek-speaking Cypriot children, and 40 Chinese-speaking Taiwanese children were administered RAN, reading accuracy, and reading fluency tasks in grade…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Reading Fluency, Grade 4, Reading Skills
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Das, J. P.; Janzen, Troy; Georgiou, George K. – Journal of School Psychology, 2007
Individual differences in reading and cognitive processing among a sample of generally poor readers were studied in order to answer two major questions: Do they have a specific cognitive style that favors global-simultaneous strategies and a weak sequential strategy? If they do not have a distinct cognitive style or strategy, but are merely poor…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Economically Disadvantaged, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries