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Direct linkStrukelj, Alexander; Scheiter, Katharina; Nyström, Marcus; Holmqvist, Kenneth – Metacognition and Learning, 2016
An eye-tracking study with 60 native Swedish speakers (18-30 years) was conducted to investigate the positive effects on learning outcomes predicted by the disfluency effect. Subtle low-pass filtering was used as a disfluency manipulation and compared with a control condition using regular text. The text was presented on four separate text…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Eye Movements, Swedish, Native Speakers
Wolf, Gail Marie – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2016
This intervention study investigated the growth of letter sound reading and growth of consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) word decoding abilities for a representative sample of 41 US children in preschool settings. Specifically, the study evaluated the effectiveness of a 3-step letter-sound teaching intervention in teaching preschool children to…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Phonological Awareness, Phonemes, Vowels
Stroik, Linda R. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this quantitative quasi-experimental group comparison study using a repeated measures comparison group design with random assignment of subjects to groups was to investigate the effects of handwriting instruction on reading progress for learners in grade 1 and grade 2. At three points in time, the number of words each student read…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Quasiexperimental Design, Comparative Analysis, Handwriting
Download full textShimono, Torrin R. – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2018
The progression of silent reading rates and reading comprehension were examined among Japanese university students (N = 55) over one academic semester. Participants were divided into three quasi-experimental groups. The first group practiced a combination of timed reading and repeated oral reading with attention paid to chunking and prosody. The…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ari, Omer – Reading Psychology, 2015
Effects of wide reading and repeated readings were examined on struggling college readers' silent reading rate and reading comprehension relative to a vocabulary study control condition. Randomly assigned to a condition, community college students (N = 30) completed 25-min sessions individually in class three times a week for three weeks.…
Descriptors: Repetition, Reading Skills, Silent Reading, Reading Difficulties
Kana'an, Basim Hamdan Ibrahim; Rab, Salahud Din Abdul; Siddiqui, Ahlullah – English Language Teaching, 2014
The objective of the study is to demonstrate how and to what extent the expansion of vision span could be a decisive factor in enhancing the reading speed of EFL major students in the English Department at King Khalid University while maintaining their previous level of comprehension. The reading speed of students in the English Department at KKU…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Rate, Case Studies, English (Second Language)
Abdelrahman, Mahmoud Sulaiman Hamad Bani; Bsharah, Muwafaq Saleem – English Language Teaching, 2014
This study aimed to find the effect of speed reading strategies on developing reading comprehension among second secondary literary stream students in English language. The sample of the study consists of (42) students assigned into two groups who were chosen randomly from schools, a controlled group (21) students, and an experimental (21)…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Rate, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language)
Russell, Janice M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Proficient reading is a necessary skill for a quality life. While educators would like to believe that most students master the art of reading and can understand what they read, national reports indicate that learning to read and becoming a skilled reader is not mastered by all (No Child Left Behind Act, 2001; NICHD, 2000a). One component of…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Learning Disabilities, Oral Reading
