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De Graff, Amanda J.; Torgesen, Joseph K. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2005
This study examined the validity and feasibility of a group-administered test of alphabetic reading skills for first-grade students. Two versions of a phonemic spelling test (production and multiple-choice) were administered in classroom groups to 153 students. Measures of vocabulary, phoneme awareness, letter sound knowledge, phonemic decoding,…
Descriptors: Spelling, Phonemics, Beginning Reading, Sight Vocabulary
Bird, Norman – 1994
Results of a Hong Kong survey, described in an earlier report, are summarized here. The study investigated the English vocabulary size of native-speaking adults (n=78), non-English native-speaking adults--Chinese (n=20), and non-English native Chinese-Speaking non-Chinese (n=9). The vocabulary used reflected British rather than American English…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Dictionaries, Educational Background, English
Chard, David J.; And Others – 1995
Evidence regarding the centrality of word recognition to the reading process is considered, based on a review of research on beginning reading from 15 secondary sources. The research includes diverse learners who are low performers, learning or reading disabled, remedial readers, high achievers, culturally disadvantaged, language delayed, and…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cultural Differences, Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities
Huckin, Thomas, Ed.; And Others – 1995
This book contains 14 essays on reading and vocabulary learning in second language acquisition. Chapters include: "Research on ESL/EFL Vocabulary Acquisition: Putting It in Context" (James Coady); "Implications for L2 Vocabulary Acquisition and Instruction From L1 Vocabulary Research" (Fredricka Stoller and William Grabe); "Patterns and Perils of…
Descriptors: Chinese, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), English (Second Language)
Olson, Mary W., Ed.; Homan, Susan P., Ed. – 1993
Intended for preservice and inservice teachers, this book presents a collection of the best strategies and activities selected from "In the Classroom," a regular column of teaching ideas in the journal "The Reading Teacher" (October 1983 to May 1991 issues). Strategies in the book were selected for their proven effectiveness…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Elementary Education
Rokicki, Anne L. – 1990
This practicum focused on the use of repeated taped reading instruction with modeling to improve fluency, comprehension, and automatic word recognition in five students (ages 11-13 years) with learning disabilities for a period of 10 weeks. The instruction also involved the teacher giving corrective feedback and having the students answer story…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Feedback, Intermediate Grades, Intervention
Dunn, Rita; And Others – 1983
Educators, environmentalists, and psychologists generally agree on the need to incorporate opportunities for movement by students into the classroom, but an extensive review of the literature did not reveal any studies concerned primarily with the relationships among students' mobility, their learning style preferences, and their academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Classroom Research, Cognitive Style
Studdert-Kennedy, Michael, Ed.; O'Brian, Nancy, Ed. – 1983
Research reports on the nature of speech, instrumentation for its investigation, and practical applications of research are provided in this status report covering the period of January 1 through March 31, 1983. The 16 reports deal with the following topics: (1) the influence of subcategorical mismatches on lexical access, (2) the Serbo-Croatian…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Adults, Articulation (Speech), Beginning Reading
Mann, William – 1990
This paper reports on an experiment designed to determine whether a novice second-language (L2) reader can be characterized as concept-oriented or syntactic-structure oriented. The operating premise was that high school L2 students read and understand not so much by translating as by combining conceptual fragments into a tentative "script," which…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Error Analysis (Language)
Manis, Franklin R. – 1987
Although evidence is accumulating that the major reading difficulty dyslexics experience involves decoding and recognizing printed words, it is not clear that all dyslexics read poorly for the same reasons. A study investigated dyslexic children between 7 and 14 years of age to see if their reading errors and patterns of performance would enable…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Decoding (Reading), Dyslexia, Elementary Secondary Education
Vellutino, Frank R.; Scanlon, Donna M. – 1987
A study examined (1) the relative contributions of skill in name retrieval and alphabetic mapping to the acquisition of skill in word identification, (2) the differential aspects of deficiencies in each of these processes on word identification, and (3) the differential effects of name familiarization and training in phonemic segmentation and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 2, Grade 6, Learning Processes
Greif, Ivo P. – 1981
Doubts about the reading vocabulary adequacies of today's high school graduates led to an experiment with a list of 199 difficult words culled from the "Reader's Digest." College juniors and seniors (298 in the first stage and 388 in the second stage) were asked to indicate whether they knew the pronunciation and the meaning of the…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, College Students, Context Clues, Definitions
Greene, Elinor C.; And Others – 1988
This study compared the effectiveness of two computer-based techniques for improving word recognition automaticity in children with mild reading difficulties. One of the techniques provided practice in identifying individual words out of context, while the other technique, referred to as repeated reading, provided practice reading specific words…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading)
Tourond, Margaret – 1982
A French-English guide to French diagnostic reading tests for French immersion classes, grades one through three, is presented. The "tests diagnostiques de lecture" are designed to indicate strengths and weaknesses in silent reading performance in French for early French immersion pupils in Canada and to integrate this information into…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Education, Error Analysis (Language)
Groff, Patrick – 1985
Intended to help dispel several unsupported "myths" about reading instruction, this book analyzes a selected group of teaching practices that have been supported by reading experts but not by research findings. The "myths" discussed in the first 12 chapters of the book are as follows: (1) phonics hinders comprehension; (2) unpredictable spelling…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Dictionaries, Educational Theories, Elementary Education
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