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Yang, Shuyi – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
The present study examined the components of oral reading fluency (ORF) via various indices and their relationships with comprehension and learner-perceived difficulty of oral reading among Chinese second language (L2) learners. One hundred participants read aloud paragraphs, completed the comprehension test, and rated the difficulty of the oral…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Chinese
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Papadopoulos, Timothy C.; Csépe, Valéria; Aro, Mikko; Caravolas, Marketa; Diakidoy, Irene-Anna; Olive, Thierry – Reading Research Quarterly, 2021
Research on literacy has become universal and is essential for researchers of various disciplines, educators, and psychologists. For this article, we examined the most important methodological challenges that arise when conducting literacy research across languages, some of which have long been acknowledged in the relevant literature.…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Research, Research Methodology, Reading Fluency
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Barwasser, Anne; Urton, Karolina; Grünke, Matthias; Sperling, Marko; Coker, David L. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
Automation of frequently used words is a key component in the development of reading fluency. However, acquiring fast word recognition skills is a serious challenge for many children in their early years of formal education. Lagging word recognition leads to general reading problems, as fluency is a vital prerequisite for text comprehension.…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Peer Teaching, Tutoring
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Nisbet, Kelly; Bertram, Raymond; Erlinghagen, Charlotte; Pieczykolan, Aleks; Kuperman, Victor – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
This study is a comparative examination of reading behavior of first-language (L1) Canadian and second-language (L2) Finnish and German readers of English. We measured eye-movement patterns during reading the same set of English sentences and administered tests of English vocabulary, spelling, and exposure to print. The core of our study is a…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, English (Second Language), Finno Ugric Languages, German
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Martin, BrittanyLee N.; Fuchs, Lynn S. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2022
The first purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence of risk for comorbid reading and mathematics disabilities (RMD) at start of first grade, when measured in a representative sample of 3,062 students with first-grade fluency measures (word reading; computation). The second purpose was to examine the utility of these measures for…
Descriptors: Prediction, Risk, Comorbidity, Multiple Disabilities
King, Seth; Rodgers, Derek; Lemons, Christopher J. – Exceptional Children, 2022
Research supports the efficacy of intensive literacy instruction for children with moderate intellectual disabilities and Down syndrome (DS). However, much of the literature features measures closely aligned with evaluated interventions. Despite their increasing role in instruction, curriculum-based measures (CBM) are rarely featured in reading…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Students with Disabilities, Curriculum Based Assessment, Reading Instruction
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Ruotsalainen, Jenni; Soodla, Piret; Räikkönen, Eija; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Kikas, Eve; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2022
The aim of the study was to analyse literacy instruction activities and their associations with the reading performance of first graders in Estonia and Finland, two countries that share similar orthographies and educational systems but differ in the onset of formal reading instruction. The contents of 33 Literacy lessons in first grade spring were…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Learning Activities, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
Simmons, Kaia-Shenae Fontenot – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this quantitative study is to examine what impact volunteer tutoring has on improving the reading standardized test scores of K-2nd elementarystudents in East Baton Rouge Parish public schools. An Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) multiple regression was conducted to analyze the extent in which Volunteers in Public Schools' (VIPS)…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Program Effectiveness, Reading Achievement, Kindergarten
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Austin, Christy R.; Vaughn, Sharon; Clemens, Nathan H.; Pustejovsky, James E.; Boucher, Alexis N. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2022
This within-subjects experimental study investigated the relative effects of word reading and word meaning instruction (WR+WM) compared to word-reading instruction alone (WR) on the accuracy, fluency, and word meaning knowledge of 4th-5th graders with dyslexia. We matched word lists on syllables, phonemes, frequency, number of definitions, and…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, Accuracy
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Sun, Peng; Zhao, Ying; Chen, Hongjun; Wu, Xinchun – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2022
This study aims to examine the relative contributions of phonological awareness (PA), orthographical awareness (OA), morphological awareness (MA) and rapid automatized naming (RAN) to word reading accuracy and fluency in Chinese deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students. Measures of PA, OA, MA, RAN, word reading accuracy, and word reading fluency…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Phonological Awareness
Didion, Lisa; Toste, Jessica R. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2022
Data Mountain is a self-determination program that has shown early promise in enhancing the oral reading fluency (ORF) of students with or at risk for reading disabilities (RD). This program supports self-determined learning behaviors through explicit teaching of self-monitoring, goal setting, and positive attributions. The present study tested…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Goal Orientation, Positive Attitudes, Reading Fluency
Fletcher Bowden – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Dyslexia, which affects between 5% and 18% of Americans, is caused by difficulties with phonological processing. This study investigates the impact of an online intervention which remediates phonological processing deficits on functional reading skills such as accuracy, fluency, and comprehension. It also investigates changes to student…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Phonological Awareness, Reading Processes, Reading Skills
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John Z. Strong; Laura S. Tortorelli; Blythe E. Anderson – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2025
Many adolescent readers experience difficulties comprehending informational text, which may result from underlying difficulties with foundational skills (e.g., word recognition and fluency), knowledge demands (e.g., background, text structure, and vocabulary), and/or reading motivation. Supplemental interventions for adolescents targeting only…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Martínez-García, C.; Suárez-Coalla, P.; Cuetos, F. – Annals of Dyslexia, 2019
In transparent orthographic systems, the main characteristic of developmental dyslexia is poor reading fluency. Several studies have reported that children with dyslexia have difficulties forming orthographic representations of words, which hampers good reading fluency. This study aimed at evaluating whether the semantic-phonological training…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Spanish Speaking, Children, Reading Fluency
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Raúl Gutiérrez-Fresneda; Teresa Pozo Rico; María José García Tárraga; Elena Jiménez-Pérez – Journal of Educational Research, 2024
The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of Spanish literacy precursor skills on reading learning to read in the mother tongue and their degree of transfer to English. A quasi-experimental design was used, which allowed for a repeated measures comparison between two groups of students, who underwent a follow-up assessment one year…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spanish Speaking, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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