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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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Chang, Anna C. -S. – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2019
This study explored the effects of repeated oral reading practice on EFL learners' oral reading fluency development over a three-month period. The participants were 44 hospitality majors, divided into four different subgroups according to language proficiency (LP 1-4, in which 1 was the lowest and 4 the highest). To examine the changes of…
Descriptors: Drills (Practice), Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, English Language Learners
Chang, Anna C. -S. – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2012
This study investigates the effect of timed reading (TR) and repeated oral reading (RR) on 35 adult students of English as a foreign language. Students in the TR (n =18) and RR (n =17) groups read 52 and 26 passages respectively over a 13-week period. Reading rates and comprehension levels were measured at three occasions: pre-intervention,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Oral Reading, Adult Students