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Mackey, Michelle G. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
I conducted 2 experiments in which I tested the effects of a reader immersion procedure on the technical reading comprehension responses to print stimuli for 4 kindergarten students and 3 first grade students. The participants selected for this study textually responded to words at a rate of 80 words correct per minute with 0 incorrect words per…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Immersion Programs, Reading Comprehension, Beginning Reading
Nelson, Annie Hirt – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study is to add to the knowledge of reading development by investigating reading processes from a neurocognitive and educational perspective. This study seeks to provide some insight about reading development for the neuroscience field. The goals of this study are to attain a clearer picture of reading development by using both…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Sentences, Age, Semantics
Gauvin, Hanna S.; Hulstijn, Jan H. – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2010
Is it possible to tell whether bilinguals are able to read simple text in their two languages equally fluently? Is it thus possible to distinguish balanced bilinguals from unbalanced bilinguals with respect to reading fluency in their first language (L1) and second language (L2)? In this study, we avoided making direct comparisons between L1 and…
Descriptors: Sentences, Reading Fluency, Reading Rate, Reading Instruction