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Soledad Pampillo; Sandra Lauría – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2022
This study examines the difficulty shown by Spanish-speaking university students in decoding pre-modified noun phrases (NPs) in English. NPs carry a heavy lexical and conceptual load and foreign language (L2) readers may be challenged by first language (L1) crosslinguistic influence triggered by cognate NPs. Therefore, this study also attempts to…
Descriptors: Nouns, Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Feller, Daniel P.; Magliano, Joseph; Sabatini, John; O'Reilly, Tenaha; Kopatich, Ryan D. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
This study was conducted to understand the reading challenges of underprepared college students. A sample of the participants was enrolled in supplemental literacy programs because they were deemed not ready for reading and writing in college. Community college participants completed a series of measures that assessed foundational skills for…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Two Year College Students, Reading Skills, Inferences
Feller, Daniel P.; Magliano, Joseph; Sabatini, John; O'Reilly, Tenaha; Kopatich, Ryan D. – Grantee Submission, 2020
This study was conducted to understand the reading challenges of underprepared college students. A sample of the participants were enrolled in supplemental literacy programs because they were deemed not ready for reading and writing in college. Community college participants completed a series of measures that assessed foundational skills for…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Two Year College Students, Reading Skills, Inferences
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Barry, Johanna G.; Harbodt, Silke; Cantiani, Chiara; Sabisch, Beate; Zobay, Oliver – Dyslexia, 2012
Sensitivity to lexical stress in adult German-speaking students with reading difficulty was investigated using minimal pair prepositional verbs whose meaning and syntax depend on the location of the stressed syllable. Two tests of stress perception were used: (i) a stress location task, where listeners indicated the location of the perceptually…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Reading Difficulties, College Students, Suprasegmentals
Flowers, George A., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This quantitative study conducted in the ESL program at a large community college investigated the symbiotic relationship between reading and second-language learning from the perspective of the class of post-secondary functional bilinguals sometimes referred to as Generation 1.5. These students are long-term, resident second-language (L2) English…
Descriptors: Coping, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Reading Ability
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Corkett, Julie K.; Parrila, Rauno – Annals of Dyslexia, 2008
We examined whether university students who report a significant history of reading difficulties (RD; n=24) differed from university students with no history of reading difficulties (NRD; n=31) in how sentence context affects word recognition. Experiment 1 found no differences in how congruent sentence primes or syntactic manipulations of the…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Sentences, Word Recognition, Language Processing
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Crossley, Scott A.; Greenfield, Jerry; McNamara, Danielle S. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2008
Many programs designed to compute the readability of texts are narrowly based on surface-level linguistic features and take too little account of the processes which a reader brings to the text. This study is an exploratory examination of the use of Coh-Metrix, a computational tool that measures cohesion and text difficulty at various levels of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Readability, Psycholinguistics, Construct Validity