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Adams, Catherine – Educational Theory, 2016
In the wake of the digital, some have recommended that we abandon the tedium of teaching handwriting to children in service of promoting "more creative" digital literacies. Others worry that an early diet of keyboard and screen may have deleterious effects on children's social, emotional, and cognitive development, as well as their…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Writing Instruction, Word Processing, Writing Processes
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Maxim, Hiram H. – Modern Language Journal, 2006
One of the characteristics of the well-documented bifurcation in collegiate foreign language (FL) instruction is the difficult transition from lower- to upper-level instruction. Particularly pronounced are the expectations placed on readers at the upper level. No longer engaged in surface readings and sentence-level exercises that stay focused on…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Word Processing, Abstract Reasoning, Figurative Language
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Neuhaus, Graham F.; Roldan, Luis W.; Boulware-Gooden, Regina; Swank, Paul R. – Reading Psychology, 2006
Parsimonious models of word recognition and reading comprehension were validated in a sample of third-grade readers. Word recognition was modeled as phonological awareness, decoding skill, and word processing rate. This model demonstrated the importance of unitization of letter clusters for efficient word reading. A curvilinear relation between…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Word Processing, Word Recognition, Reading Comprehension