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Mellard, Daryl F.; Anthony, Jason L.; Woods, Kari L. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
This study extends the literature on the component skills involved in oral reading fluency. Dominance analysis was applied to assess the relative importance of seven reading-related component skills in the prediction of the oral reading fluency of 272 adult literacy learners. The best predictors of oral reading fluency when text difficulty was…
Descriptors: Investigations, Reading Fluency, Reading, Short Term Memory
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Bryan, Sharon – Australian Library Journal, 2011
Extensive Reading is a resource heavy technique used in second language acquisition in which language learners read large amounts of texts for enjoyment, with the expectation that they will improve their vocabulary and fluency as a result of exposure to the written language. Narrow Reading is a similar technique in which the texts have a common…
Descriptors: Evidence, Second Languages, Language Acquisition, Reading Fluency