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Yahua Cheng; Yixun Li; Wenjian Zhang; Kaiyue Jia – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
Previous studies uncover that vocabulary knowledge may be related to compound structure awareness (the awareness of relational structure embedded in compound words), and they both contribute to reading comprehension. Yet, limited studies have examined the dynamic relationship between vocabulary knowledge and compound structure awareness, or their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
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Huang, Xin; Lin, Dan; Yang, Yiming; Xu, Yuhang; Chen, Qingrong; Tanenhaus, Michael K. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2021
While recent studies find that contextual diversity (CD) is a better determinant of visual word recognition than token frequency, there is a dearth of work comparing contextual diversity and token frequency in developing readers. In two sets of character and lexical decision experiments we examined token frequency and contextual diversity effects…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Word Recognition, Context Effect, Word Frequency
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Xu, Zhengye; Liu, Duo – Journal of Research in Reading, 2020
Background: Physically manipulating objects according to texts can improve reading performance. This study examined whether these benefits can also be achieved via observing these manipulations or whether, because of an additional involvement of an action system, the physical manipulation might induce larger effects. Methods: In total, 134 second…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction, Elementary School Students