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Chung, Wei-Lun; Bidelman, Gavin M. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: The study aimed to examine whether oral reading prosody--the use of acoustic features (e.g., pitch and duration variations) when reading passages aloud--predicts reading fluency and comprehension abilities. Method: We measured vocabulary, syntax, word reading, reading fluency (including rate and accuracy), reading comprehension (in Grades…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Suprasegmentals, Acoustics, Predictor Variables
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Liao, Chen-Huei; Kuo, Bor-Chen – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2011
The present study examined the equivalency of conventional and web-based tests in reading Chinese. Phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming (RAN), reading accuracy, and reading fluency tests were administered to 93 grade 6 children in Taiwan with both test versions (paper-pencil and web-based). The results suggest that conventional and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Fluency, Phonological Awareness, Grade 6
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Yen, Nai-Shing; Tsai, Jie-Li; Chen, Pei-Ling; Lin, Hsuan-Yu; Chen, Arbee L. P. – Behaviour & Information Technology, 2011
To investigate the most efficient way to represent text in reading Chinese on computer displays, three typographic variables, character size (41[feet] arc/24 pixels and 60[feet] arc/32 pixels), character spacing (1/4 and 1/8 character width) and font type (Kai and Ming), were manipulated. Results showed that the reading speed for Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Reading Rate, Eye Movements