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Oguzhan Hazir – Online Submission, 2019
The existence of dyslexia is still an active debate. This discussion is mainly based on whether dyslexia is caused by unsuccessful teaching methods employed by teachers and the comparison of some countries' high literacy rates while ignoring other relevant dimensions in language structures. Unlike mainstream views, many scholars state that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dyslexia, Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction
Hjetland, Hanne Naess; Brinchmann, Ellen Irén; Lyster, Solveig-Alma Halaas; Hagtvet, Bente Eriksen; Melby-Lervåg, Monica – Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2015
The objective for this systematic review is to summarize the best available research on the correlation between reading-related preschool predictors and later reading comprehension ability. The findings in this planned review are of practical significance, as they have direct implications for how to best prepare children for reading instruction.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Predictor Variables, Reading Comprehension, Literature Reviews
Cameron, Harriet; Billington, Tom – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
There are different ways of theorising dyslexia and different ways of constructing meanings around dyslexia in different learning contexts. This paper considers the role of neoliberalist ideology in shaping conversations about dyslexia and "fairness" during two focus group conversations analysed as part of a study into the discursive…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Dyslexia, College Students, Higher Education
Liu, Chubai; Luo, Xinjie – English Language Teaching, 2021
In 2017, the Ministry of Education promulgated the General High School English Curriculum Standards (2017 Edition), which stressed the importance of affective factors in English learning. This study uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods such as student questionnaires and interviews to explore the motivational function…
Descriptors: High School Students, Standards, Student Attitudes, English (Second Language)
Edwards, Ashley A.; Schatschneider, Christopher – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2020
Previous research has revealed conflicting results with regard to the role of the magnocellular visual system in reading and dyslexia. In order to investigate this further, the present study examined the relationship between performance on two magnocellular tasks (temporal gap detection and coherent motion), reading rate (oral and silent), and…
Descriptors: Reading Rate, Reading Research, Correlation, College Students
Chung, Kevin Kien Hoa; Lam, Chun Bun; Cheung, Ka Chun – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
This cross-sectional study examined the associations of visuomotor integration and executive functioning with Chinese word reading and writing in kindergarten children. A total of 369 Chinese children (mean age = 57.99 months; 55% of them were girls) from Hong Kong, China, completed tasks on visuomotor integration, executive functioning, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Chinese, Visual Perception
Ismail, Shaik Abdul Malik Mohamed; Karim, Abdul; Mohamed, Abdul Rashid – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2018
With the advent of new research paradigms and the prevalence of diverse influential factors, the intriguing issue nowadays is to identify what actually determines English as a second language (ESL) learners' reading comprehension. This study examined gender, socioeconomic status (SES), and ethnicity as predictors of ESL learners' reading age and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Clark, Christina – National Literacy Trust, 2018
Read for Good's sponsored Readathon gives children in schools a purpose to read, combined with freedom to choose what they read, on their own terms, free from assessment or evaluation. The sponsorship money helps to provide a regular supply of new books and storyteller visits to the UK's major children's hospitals and supports school libraries.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Reading, Reading Programs
What if Learners Are Not Involved in Reading? Reading Ability and Reading Motivation of EFL Learners
Chon, Yuah V.; Kim, Jihye – English Teaching, 2019
During reading instruction, sustaining learners' reading motivation (RM) may be a challenge but a requisite when the goal is to keep learners reading. In the context of the present study, it was examined as to how RM may be sustained in a reading course. For this purpose, information on learners' RM was collected in a semester-long university…
Descriptors: Reading Ability, Reading Motivation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Grindle, Corinna; Tyler, Emily; Murray, Clodagh; Hastings, Richard P.; Lovell, Michael – Support for Learning, 2019
Evidence suggests that reading interventions found to be effective with typically developing children may also be effective with children with developmental disabilities (DD). The Headsprout® Early Reading programme (HER) is an online reading programme accessible at home or at school. Previous research using HER with children with DD has been…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Children, Parents as Teachers, Early Reading
Vibulpatanavong, Kanokporn; Evans, David – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
Phonological awareness has been found to be an important skill underpinning reading development in several alphabetic languages. However, the development of phonological awareness and its relationship to reading development can be influenced by the nature of the language under investigation. While understanding this relationship in Thai language…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Thai
Mota, Natália Bezerra; Weissheimer, Janaína; Madruga, Beatriz; Adamy, Nery; Bunge, Silvia A.; Copelli, Mauro; Ribeiro, Sidarta – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2016
To explore the relationship between memory and early school performance, we used graph theory to investigate memory reports from 76 children aged 6-8 years. The reports comprised autobiographical memories of events days to years past, and memories of novel images reported immediately after encoding. We also measured intelligence quotient (IQ) and…
Descriptors: Memory, Reading Ability, Young Children, Intelligence Quotient
Orr, Aline – Online Submission, 2016
This report summarizes Austin Independent School District (AISD) English language learner (ELL) students' performance on the Evaluación del Desarrollo de la Lectura, an assessment of Spanish reading ability, over three consecutive school years. It includes only ELLs who joined AISD in kindergarten in 2012.
Descriptors: School Districts, English Language Learners, Spanish, Reading Ability
Nowicki, Elizabeth A.; Lopata, Joel – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2017
Study objectives were to clarify children's gender-based implicit and explicit mathematics and reading stereotypes, and to determine if implicit and explicit measures were related or represented distinct constructs. One hundred and fifty-six boys and girls (mean age 11.3 years) from six elementary schools completed math or reading stereotype…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Children, Reading Ability, Mathematics Skills
Kocaarslan, Mustafa; Ergün, Akile – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
Prosody is evaluated as an important factor in fluent reading, and in literature it is expressed as a significant reading skill that affects comprehension. Prosody--described as a fluent reading ability of a reader with suitable sentences and expressions--includes stress, intonation, duration (time passed on voicing a word) and pausing properties…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Oral Reading, Suprasegmentals, Reading Skills