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Download full textSong, Yi; Deane, Paul; Fowles, Mary – ETS Research Report Series, 2017
This study assessed 1,706 eighth-grade students' reasoning abilities through a critique task in an integrated argumentative reading and writing test. Results indicate that the majority of students did not detect fallacious arguments or clearly explain problems in the arguments. They encountered various challenges in critiquing an argument: (a)…
Descriptors: Criticism, Persuasive Discourse, Academic Ability, Grade 8
Direct linkFastame, Maria Chiara; Cardis, Anna; Callai, Daniela – School Psychology International, 2018
The current study investigated the capacity of a new test assessing phonological awareness to detect differences between Italian children with and without developmental dyslexia. Specifically, the task involves blending of a list of pseudo-words, and excludes lexical knowledge as a source of task performance. Fifty-four third to fifith Italian…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Italian, Short Term Memory, Dyslexia
Viriya, Chorthip – Arab World English Journal, 2018
The purposes of this study were to study the effects of using task-based learning (TBL) to teach English for Academic Purposes (EAP) students and to explore their opinions towards TBL at Thammasat University.Forty students were chosen via purposely selected sampling. The research instruments included a reading and writing pretest-posttest, a…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Matchinski, Tracy L.; Winters, Janis E. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2016
The ability to read print to help maintain independence and quality of life is a primary concern of people with visual impairments. One option for reading is a CCTV (closed-circuit television) or, using a more specific term, electronic magnifier. An electronic magnifier uses a camera to enlarge images onto a screen. The aim of this study was to…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Writing Achievement, Reading Achievement, Comparative Analysis
Lehto, Marja-Liisa; Maijala, Minna – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2013
Since Finnish is not an Indo-European language, studying foreign languages in general and then also studying special fields through the medium of foreign languages may provide an extra difficulty for Finnish students. Most university language centres in Finland have organized reading comprehension courses in several foreign languages for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Lindgren, Signe-Anita; Laine, Matti – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
We investigated reading and writing in two domestic languages (Swedish and Finnish) and one foreign language (English) among multilingual university students with (n = 20) versus without dyslexia (n = 20). Our analyses encompassed overall speed and accuracy measures and an in-depth analysis of grapheme-phoneme-grapheme errors and inflectional…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Phonemes, Graphemes, Dyslexia
