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Katharine Bailey; Nancie Im-Bolter – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2024
Children with epilepsy are at increased risk for language and reading difficulties. Phonological processing and language underlie reading success, yet their association with reading achievement in children with epilepsy is unknown. We assessed phonological processing, oral language, and reading in children (ages 6 to 12) with epilepsy (EP; n = 6),…
Descriptors: Children, Epilepsy, Phonology, Reading Comprehension
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Marcus C. G. Friedrich; Selina Gajewski; Katja Hagenberg; Christine Wenz; Elke Heise – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
Gender-fair language makes women and people of other genders, their interests, and achievements more visible. However, critics argue that gender-fair language impairs the comprehensibility and aesthetic appeal of texts. This study tests these assumptions specifically concerning the gender asterisk, a form of gender-fair language that makes people…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Sex Fairness, Comprehension, Aesthetics
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Alix Seigneuric; Carsten Elbro; Jane Oakhill; Hakima Megherbi – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
A referential metaphor is a cohesive tie between lexical items that are metaphorically related, (e.g. "'The seagull' took the bread from the coffee table. No one heard the 'thief'"). The reference from "the thief" back to "the seagull" is metaphorical because thieves are human. The present article presents arguments…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Figurative Language, Reading Processes, Inferences
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Andreea Dutulescu; Stefan Ruseti; Mihai Dascalu; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2024
Assessing the difficulty of reading comprehension questions is crucial to educational methodologies and language understanding technologies. Traditional methods of assessing question difficulty rely frequently on human judgments or shallow metrics, often failing to accurately capture the intricate cognitive demands of answering a question. This…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Reading Tests, Test Items, Reading Comprehension
Meredith O'Neil – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how reading teachers in southern urban schools described their use of prior knowledge and text clues in instructing high functioning ASD students in their use of inferencing to improve their reading comprehension. There were three research questions used in this study: RQ1: How do…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Urban Schools, Inferences
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Takayuki Nishihara – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2024
This study explored the diverse responses of Japanese university-level learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) to lexically easy short poems. These participants had attained a high level of English proficiency and were able to grasp the literal meaning of the poems. The investigation employed confidence level and reading time as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Jonathan Beckett – Support for Learning, 2024
The polarisation of attitudes towards dyslexia appears to be contingent upon the awareness of the implications of adopting a medical model to interpreting dyslexia (as a medical 'condition') or applying an educational overlay, based upon difficulties in certain areas, to interpreting and making provision for those with dyslexia. Specifically, it…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Social Bias
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Inmaculada Fajardo; Holly Joseph – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) tend to struggle with reading comprehension, often resulting in difficulties with inference generation. While most of the previous research has focused on the product of comprehension, we report a preliminary validation of an experimental reading task in English to measure, by means of eye-movements,…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Inferences
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Tzu-Hua Huang – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2024
It is essential that students develop the skill of reading comprehension during their schooling, although it has been defined in various ways. The Programme for International Student Assessment indicates that a substantial proportion of students fail to develop sufficient reading skills during their schooling. While it is easy to understand the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Indigenous Populations, Reading Comprehension
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Krista Merry; Pete Bettinger; Taeyoon Lee – Journal of Extension, 2024
Online learning has become an important advance in education in the last decade. We developed an online learning system related to land and tree measurements. University students were given pre- and postexposure surveys for two courses offered within the online system. Surveys were designed to assess whether the knowledge level and confidence of…
Descriptors: College Students, Forestry, Electronic Learning, Outcomes of Education
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Kichan Park – English Teaching, 2024
To identify effective methods for boosting incidental vocabulary learning, this study examines the impacts of two tools--bimodal presentation (BP) and lexical elaboration (LE)--on vocabulary acquisition through repeated encounters with target words during meaning-focused reading. In a quiet and comfortable place conducive to full concentration on…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Vocabulary Development, Instructional Effectiveness, Language Acquisition
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Million Tadesse – SAGE Open, 2024
This study was targeted to assess adult education program implementers' understanding towards adult education policy documents and usage of the documents in Addis Ababa City Administration. In order to guide the study qualitative method was applied. Accordingly, qualitative data was gathered using interview and document analysis. Qualitative data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Educational Policy
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Ana Pellicer-Sánchez; Stuart Webb; Andi Wang – Applied Linguistics, 2024
Lexical coverage, i.e. the extent to which words in a text are known, is considered an important predictor of reading comprehension, with studies suggesting 98% lexical coverage leads to adequate comprehension. However, no studies to date have examined how the various lexical coverage percentages suggested in the literature are reflected by the…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language)
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Luis E. Muñoz; Natalia Kartushina; Julien Mayor – Developmental Science, 2024
Pacifier use during childhood has been hypothesized to interfere with language processing, but, to date, there is limited evidence revealing detrimental effects of prolonged pacifier use on infant vocabulary learning. In the present study, parents of 12- and 24-month-old infants were recruited in Oslo (Norway). The sample included 1187 monolingual…
Descriptors: Infants, Correlation, Infant Behavior, Foreign Countries
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Adi Avramovich; Menahem Yeari – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2024
The present study explored whether poor executive functions (EF) underlying the difficulties of individuals with ADHD in reading comprehension (RC) are general or specific to the textual content they regulate. To address this question, adolescents with and without ADHD answered questions following the reading of texts and completed a series of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Adolescents, Grade 8
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