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Stothers, Margot; Klein, Perry D. – Annals of Dyslexia, 2010
It is not clear from research whether, or to what extent, reading comprehension is impaired in adults who have learning disabilities (LD). The influence of perceptual organization (PO) and phonological awareness (PA) on reading comprehension was investigated. PO and PA are cognitive functions that have been examined in previous research for their…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Stimuli, Learning Disabilities, Reading Tests
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Feeney, Aidan; Coley, John D.; Crisp, Aimee – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Relevance theory (Sperber & Wilson, 1995) suggests that people expend cognitive effort when processing information in proportion to the cognitive effects to be gained from doing so. This theory has been used to explain how people apply their knowledge appropriately when evaluating category-based inductive arguments (Medin, Coley, Storms, &…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Logical Thinking, Experiments, Foreign Countries
Grabe, William – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2010
Paul Nation's talents and interests extend well beyond vocabulary to include research on speaking, writing, classroom learning and teaching, reading, and fluency. In keeping with Nation's interests in fluency, extensive reading, and reading instruction, I outline current perspectives on reading fluency and its role as a key component of reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Reading Fluency, Second Language Learning
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Vanderberg, Laura E.; Pierce, Margaret E.; Disney, Laurel J. – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 2011
This study reports on an examination of the effectiveness of a reading intervention for adults with disabilities in a vocational rehabilitation setting. Participants were 57 adults with disabilities and low reading skills enrolled at the Reading Clinic at the Michigan Career and Technical Institute. As part of a 3-year research and demonstration…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Intervention, Individualized Reading, Disabilities
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Zacks, Jeffrey M.; Speer, Nicole K.; Reynolds, Jeremy R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2009
When reading a story or watching a film, comprehenders construct a series of representations in order to understand the events depicted. Discourse comprehension theories and a recent theory of perceptual event segmentation both suggest that comprehenders monitor situational features such as characters' goals, to update these representations at…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Films, Nonprint Media, Comprehension
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de Jong, Peter F. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2011
Serial rapid automized naming (RAN) has been often found to correlate more strongly with reading than discrete RAN. This study aimed to demonstrate that the strength of the RAN-reading fluency relationship is dependent on the format of both RAN and the reading task if the reading task consists of sight words. Seventy-one first-grade, 74…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Fluency, Sight Vocabulary, Reading
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Commissaire, Eva; Duncan, Lynne G.; Casalis, Severine – Journal of Research in Reading, 2011
This study explores the nature of orthographic processing skills among French-speaking children in Grades 6 and 8 who are learning English at school as a second language (L2). Two aspects of orthographic processing skills are thought to form a convergent construct in monolingual beginning readers: word-specific knowledge (e.g. "rain-rane") and…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Reading Difficulties, Monolingualism, Literacy
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Paige, David D. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2011
The acceleration hypothesis views reading rate simultaneously as both an independent and dependent variable that can be manipulated to encourage increases in reading indicators (Breznitz, 2006). Within this conceptualization, reading rate represents all the component sub-processes required for proficient reading and presents the opportunity for a…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Short Term Memory, Reading Rate
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Zhao, Xiaoguang; Zhu, Lei – English Language Teaching, 2012
Reading plays a dominant role among the four skills in foreign language acquisition for college students. Unfortunately, over the past few decades, English teaching practice shows that Chinese students are vulnerable in it. Both their reading speed and their reading skills are far from being satisfactory. Schema theory presents a very efficient…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Learning Theories, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Gorlewski, Julie, Ed.; Roberts, Mike – English Journal, 2009
How can teachers merge research and daily practice? Where can they find the time, information, and resources? In exploring this issue, it is important to clarify the definition of "research". "Research" might mean (1) using best practices that are already research-based or (2) doing research on one's own students. For purposes of discussion in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Teaching Methods, Scholarship, Grade 8
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Moorman, Amanda; Boon, Richard T.; Keller-Bell, Yolanda; Stagliano, Christina; Jeffs, Tara – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a text-to-speech software program known as "Read Please" on the reading rate and reading comprehension accuracy of two high school students with specific learning disabilities (SLD) in reading. A single-subject A-B-A-B "withdrawal" research design (Alberto & Troutman,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Learning Disabilities, Computer Software, Reading Rate
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Miller, Sarah; Connolly, Paul; Maguire, Lisa K – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2012
This article presents the findings of a randomized controlled trial evaluation of the effects of a revised version of the volunteer mentoring programme, "Time to Read." Participating children received two 30-minute mentoring sessions per week from volunteer mentors who carried out paired reading activities with the children. The current…
Descriptors: Reading, Reading Comprehension, Mentors, Reading Fluency
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Vasquez, Eleazar, III; Slocum, Timothy A. – Exceptional Children, 2012
This study examined the effects of online reading instruction for at-risk fourth-grade students in Philadelphia. The authors used a multiple baseline design to assess the extent to which the students increased their oral reading rate given systematic supplemental online reading instruction. Tutoring consisted of 4 sessions per week with 50-min…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Reading Fluency, Reading Failure, At Risk Students
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Fasko, Sharla N.; Fasko, Daniel, Jr. – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2010
Fasko, Jr. Bowling Green State University Abstract The purpose of the study was to assess the effectiveness of a tutoring intervention for sight word acquisition and to examine whether progress was matched by improvement in oral reading fluency. Three primary students were selected based upon teachers' referral for poor reading fluency. Flashcards…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Sight Method, Sight Vocabulary, Instructional Materials
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Vosse, Theo; Kempen, Gerard – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2009
In a recent series of publications (Traxler et al. J Mem Lang 39:558-592, 1998; Van Gompel et al. J Mem Lang 52:284-307, 2005; see also Van Gompel et al. (In: Kennedy, et al.(eds) Reading as a perceptual process, Oxford, Elsevier pp 621-648, 2000); Van Gompel et al. J Mem Lang 45:225-258, 2001) eye tracking data are reported showing that globally…
Descriptors: Sentences, Figurative Language, Language Processing, Models
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