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Wegener, Signy; Wang, Hua-Chen; Beyersmann, Elisabeth; Nation, Kate; Colenbrander, Danielle; Castles, Anne – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2023
Purpose: Readers can draw on their knowledge of sound-to-letter mappings to form expectations about the spellings of known spoken words prior to seeing them in written sentences. The current study asked whether such orthographic expectancies are observed in the absence of contextual support at the point of reading. Method: Seventy-eight adults…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Reading Processes, Word Recognition, Spelling
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Kelso, Katrina; Whitworth, Anne; Leitão, Suze – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2022
This study aimed to profile the sublexical, lexical, and text level language skills, and cognitive processes of a sub-group of children with poor reading comprehension known as poor comprehenders. An assessment protocol was developed to assess each of the components from Perfetti and Stafura's Reading Systems Framework. A comprehensive profile was…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Oral Language, Reading Comprehension, Profiles
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Dufficy, Paul – Language Teaching Research, 2004
This paper focuses on an information gap task that was part of a larger critical action research project that sought to expand talk opportunities for children in multilingual classrooms. Little of the previous research on tasks and language learning has focused on children learning English as an additional language in the context of diverse,…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Action Research, Written Language, Oral Language