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Accelerating Decoding-Related Skills in Poor Readers Learning a Foreign Language: A Computer-Based Intervention
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Björn, Piia Maria; Leppänen, Paavo H. T. – Educational Psychology, 2013
The results of Fast ForWord® training on English decoding-related skills were examined. Finnish fifth-grade students were identified as having reading fluency problems and poor skills in English as a foreign language learned at school and were randomly assigned to either a training group (TRG) or a control group. The TRG ("n"?=?13)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Decoding (Reading), English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction