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Christofalos, Andriana L.; Raney, Gary E.; Daniel, Frances; Demos, Alexander P. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2020
Background: Research shows that providing readers with a title prior to reading a passage increases comprehension compared with reading a passage without a title. However, the specific type of comprehension that is facilitated by the presence of a title and how this relates to reading time has not been examined. We present three experiments in…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Layout (Publications), Reading Rate, Models
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Crossley, Scott A.; Skalicky, Stephen; Dascalu, Mihai – Journal of Research in Reading, 2019
Background: Advances in natural language processing (NLP) and computational linguistics have facilitated major improvements on traditional readability formulas that aim at predicting the overall difficulty of a text. Recent studies have identified several types of linguistic features that are theoretically motivated and predictive of human…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Readability, Reading Comprehension, Reading Rate
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Goodwin, Amanda P.; Petscher, Yaacov; Carlisle, Joanne F.; Mitchell, Alison M. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2017
This study examined the dimensionality of morphological knowledge. The performance of 371 seventh- and eighth-graders on seven morphological knowledge tasks was investigated using confirmatory factor analysis. Results suggested that morphological knowledge was best fit by a bifactor model with a general factor of morphological knowledge and seven…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Grade 7, Grade 8, Factor Analysis
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Lancaster, Hope Sparks; Li, Jing; Gray, Shelley – Journal of Research in Reading, 2021
Background: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between selective visual attention (SVA), reading decoding, listening comprehension and reading comprehension in children with and without a reading disorder. Methods: We used longitudinal data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. We split children into four…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Attention, Reading Skills, Decoding (Reading)
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Baldwin, Erika; Heilmann, John; Finneran, Denise; Cho, Chi C.; Moyle, Maura – Journal of Research in Reading, 2022
Background: Numerous studies have observed a significant and unique relationship between children's use of nonmainstream dialect and reading outcomes. We aimed to examine the relationship between nonmainstream dialect and reading at its roots by completing a preliminary evaluation of the relationship between African American English (AAE) dialect…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, African American Students, Structural Equation Models, Reading Skills
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Chan, Jessica S.; Wade-Woolley, Lesly – Journal of Research in Reading, 2018
Background: This study was designed to extend our understanding of phonology and reading to include suprasegmental awareness using measures of prosodic awareness, which are complex tasks that tap into the rhythmic aspects of phonology. By requiring participants to access, reflect on and manipulate word stress, the prosodic awareness measures used…
Descriptors: Phonology, Executive Function, Adults, Short Term Memory
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Rosenzweig, Emily Q.; Wigfield, Allan; Gaspard, Hanna; Guthrie, John T. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2018
Interventions can enhance students' motivation for reading, but few researchers have assessed the effects of the specific motivation-enhancing practices that comprise these interventions. Even fewer have evaluated how students' perceptions of different intervention practices impact their later motivation and academic outcomes. In this study, we…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Instruction, Student Motivation, Structural Equation Models
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Cromley, Jennifer G.; Wills, Theodore W. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2016
Van den Broek's landscape model explicitly posits sequences of moves during reading in real time. Two other models that implicitly describe sequences of processes during reading are tested in the present research. Coded think-aloud data from 24 undergraduate students reading scientific text were analysed with lag-sequential techniques to compare…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Coding, Undergraduate Students, Learning Processes
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Kohnen, Nicole; Retelsdorf, Jan – Journal of Research in Reading, 2019
Background: Connectives, such as "because" or "although," explicitly indicate how to semantically link individual segments of a text. Knowledge of connectives has been shown to significantly contribute to variance explanation in comprehension of English and Dutch texts, particularly amongst monolingual students and students…
Descriptors: German, Knowledge Level, Form Classes (Languages), Grade 9
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Kulju, Pirjo; Mäkinen, Marita – Journal of Research in Reading, 2017
This study explores Finnish children's word-level spelling by applying a linguistically based multilayered word structure model for assessing spelling performance. The model contributes to the analytical qualitative assessment approach in order to identify children's spelling performance for enhancing writing skills. The children (N = 105)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spelling, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Grade 1
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Asadi, Ibrahim A.; Khateb, Asaid; Shany, Michal – Journal of Research in Reading, 2017
This study aimed to examine, from a cross-sectional perspective, the extent to which the simple view of reading (SVR) model can be adapted to the Arabic language. This was carried out by verifying, in both beginning and more skilled readers, whether the unique orthographical and morphological characteristics of Arabic contribute to reading…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Reading Comprehension, Elementary School Students, Orthographic Symbols
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Okkinga, Mariska; van Steensel, Roel; van Gelderen, Amos J. S.; Sleegers, Peter J. C. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2018
Low-achieving adolescents are known to have difficulties with reading comprehension. This article discusses how reciprocal teaching can improve low-achieving adolescents' reading comprehension in whole-classroom settings (as opposed to small-group settings) and to what extent intervention effects are dependent on teacher behaviour. Over the course…
Descriptors: Reciprocal Teaching, Reading Comprehension, Low Achievement, Adolescents