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Visual Search and Reading Comprehension in Chinese Children: The Mediation of Word Detection Skill
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Liu, Duo; Chen, Xi – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
The present study explored the mediating effect of word detection on the relationship between visual-spatial attention and reading comprehension in Chinese. The participants included 287 Hong Kong Chinese children (167 third graders, 84 girls, "mean age" = 8.73, SD = 0.49, and 120 fourth graders, 45 girls, "mean age" = 9.93, SD…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Visual Perception, Spatial Ability, Attention
Predictors of Chinese Reading and Literacy Skills among Chinese School Children: A 3-Year Longitudinal Study
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Liao, Chen-Huei; Kuo, Bor-Chen; Tsao, Chieh-Ju; Mok, Magdalena Mo Ching – Educational Psychology, 2020
This study aims to identify the predictors of Chinese reading and literacy skills among Chinese school children in Taiwan. Participants recruited in the study were 182 Grade 1 elementary school students. First, data were collected on these students' literacy skills, which comprised morphological awareness, orthography processing, visual perception…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables, Reading Skills, Literacy
Visual-Spatial Attention and Reading Achievement in Hong Kong Chinese Children: Evidence from a One-Year Longitudinal Study
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Liu, Sisi; Liu, Duo – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2020
This study examined whether visual-spatial attention could predict Chinese reading achievement longitudinally beyond some well-established reading precursors. A total of 257 second- and third-grade Hong Kong Chinese-speaking children participated in the study. Visual-spatial attention was measured by visual search tasks, which assessed the skills…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Visual Perception, Spatial Ability, Predictor Variables
RAN and Double-Deficit Theory
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Cronin, Virginia S. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2013
Lervag and Hulme’s neuro-developmental theory and Wolf and Bowers’s double-deficit hypothesis were examined in this longitudinal study. A total of 130 children were tested in preschool and followed through fifth grade, when 84 remained in the study. During preschool and kindergarten the participants were given tests of end-sound discrimination…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Child Development, Phonological Awareness, Naming
Kindergarten Readiness Skills: Predictors of Academic Potential
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Rawlings, Jennifer – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between school readiness skills as measured by the Missouri KIDS and academic potential in reading and math as measured by the scores on the CTP4 in grades 2-4 in a private, independent school. This study identified which school readiness skills most accurately predict the need for…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Private Schools
Does the Irlen[R] Method Bring about an Increase in Reading Scores on a Specific Test of Reading for Students Found to Have Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome?
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Faraci, Marie Elaine – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The problem. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of the Irlen[R] method's use of colored overlays on the reading achievement of 3rd-grade students who were identified as having Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome/Irlen[R] Syndrome. Method. This was a true experimental, pre-test, post-test design. The Irlen[R] overlay, either present…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Teachers, Reading Instruction