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Hattan, Courtney; Lee, Eunseo; List, Alexandra – Reading Psychology, 2023
The current study examines a multidimensional set of outcome variables to understand whether different pre-reading scaffolds influence students' text comprehension, diagram analysis, text integration, and interest; and investigates these constructs cross-sectionally to identify any progression as students move across grades. One-hundred fifty-six…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Reading Comprehension, Visual Aids, Student Interests
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Washington, Karla N.; Westby, Carol; Fritz, Kristina; Crowe, Kathryn; Karem, Rachel Wright; Basinger, Melanie – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to characterize narrative competence of typically developing bilingual children using Jamaican Creole (JC) and English. Method: Story comprehension and fictional storytelling tasks in JC and English were completed by 104 bilingual preschoolers aged 4-6 years. Story comprehension was analyzed using inferential…
Descriptors: Creoles, English, Bilingualism, Preschool Children
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Samantha J. Russell; J. Jessica Wang; Kate Cain – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: Anthropomorphized animal characters have been associated with negative influences on educational outcomes for young children, for example story comprehension and prosocial learning from moral tales. In this study we investigate how character realism and moral theme influence young children's recall of the story content. Retells…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Story Reading, Childrens Literature, Animals
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Rivière, Elora; Champagne-Lavau, Maud – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
The present study in French sought to investigate which factors predict irony perception most efficiently. An experiment was developed following three steps. The first two steps focused on the creation of stimuli to be evaluated in the third step. In this last step, participants, whose sociocultural characteristics (gender, age, and level of…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, College Students, Foreign Countries, French
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de Diego-Lázaro, Beatriz; Restrepo, María Adelaida – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2021
This study examined the effects of a 9-week auditory intervention on the auditory skills of five children with hearing loss who experienced prolonged auditory deprivation before receiving hearing aids. A single-case multiple baseline design across participants was used to examine the effect of the intervention on the children's auditory skills…
Descriptors: Intervention, Hearing Impairments, Hearing Therapy, Program Effectiveness
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Mulder, Evelien; van de Ven, Marco; Segers, Eliane; Krepel, Alexander; de Bree, Elise H.; de Jong, Peter F.; Verhoeven, Ludo – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
We assessed the relationship between word-to-text-integration (WTI) and reading comprehension in 7th grade students (n = 441) learning English as a second language (L2). The students performed a self-paced WTI reading task in Fall (T1) and Spring (T2), consisting of three text manipulation types (anaphora resolution, argument overlap, anomaly…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Fluency
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Huang, Kexuan – Journal of Education and Learning, 2020
There have been many studies exploring the advantages that bilingualism confers to individuals' working memory and metacognition (see Ransdell, 2006; Del Missier et al., 2010). The hypothesis of language critical period states that if no language learning and teaching happen during the critical period, an individual will never be able to fully…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Metacognition, Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning
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Gagliardi, Annie; Mease, Tara M.; Lidz, Jeffrey – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2016
This article investigates infant comprehension of filler-gap dependencies. Three experiments probe 15- and 20-month-olds' comprehension of two filler-gap dependencies: "wh"-questions and relative clauses. Experiment 1 shows that both age groups appear to comprehend "wh"-questions. Experiment 2 shows that only the younger…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Acquisition, Phrase Structure, Language Processing
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Oakhill, Jane; Cain, Kate; Nesi, Barbara – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2016
This article reports a study in which good and poor comprehenders (in 2 age groups: 8- and 10-year-olds) read short passages containing phrases that could be interpreted as idiomatic or not, depending on the context. Familiarity was manipulated by including real (English) idioms and novel (translations of Italian) idioms. Reading times for the…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Reading Comprehension, Children, Age Differences
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Nourinezhad, Sepideh; Kashefian-Naeeini, Sara – Cogent Education, 2020
This study was conducted to examine the Iranian EFL university learners' and lecturers' attitude towards translation as a tool in reading comprehension. A sample of 50 male and female students of Nursing, Medicine and 10 male and female lecturers at the Shiraz University of Medical Sciences were randomly selected. Using an Oxford Placement Test…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Undergraduate Students, Nursing Students
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Reich, Stephanie M.; Yau, Joanna C.; Xu, Ying; Muskat, Tallin; Uvalle, Jessica; Cannata, Daniela – AERA Open, 2019
Increasingly, children are engaging in early literacy experiences through digital devices. This raises questions about how electronic reading compares to print reading. To assess this, we randomly assigned 200 children (3-5 years) to be read the same book (1) with auto-narration on a tablet or (2) by a researcher from a print book. Reading was…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Preschool Children, Electronic Publishing, Books
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Artieda, Gemma; Roquet, Helena; Nicolás-Conesa, Florentina – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
This study investigates the role of biological age and L2 exposure on the achievement of two groups of Catalan-Spanish intermediate learners of English in secondary school (Group A, Formal Instruction (FI), N = 50; Group B, FI + CLIL, N = 50) regarding receptive and productive L2 skills as well as grammatical knowledge. Learners were matched for…
Descriptors: Age Differences, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Banerjee, Jayanti; Papageorgiou, Spiros – International Journal of Listening, 2016
The research reported in this article investigates differential item functioning (DIF) in a listening comprehension test. The study explores the relationship between test-taker age and the items' language domains across multiple test forms. The data comprise test-taker responses (N = 2,861) to a total of 133 unique items, 46 items of which were…
Descriptors: Correlation, High Stakes Tests, Test Items, Listening Comprehension Tests
Kim, Young-Suk Grace – Grantee Submission, 2016
We investigated component language and cognitive skills of oral language comprehension of narrative texts (i.e., listening comprehension). Using the construction-integration model of text comprehension as an overarching theoretical framework, we examined direct and mediated relations of foundational cognitive skills (working memory and attention),…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Cognitive Ability, Oral Language, Listening Comprehension
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Westerveld, Marleen F.; Gillon, Gail T.; van Bysterveldt, Anne K.; Boyd, Lynda – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2015
This study investigated the emergent literacy and language skills of four-year-old children in New Zealand during their kindergarten year prior to school-entry. A total of 92 four-year-old children from a range of socio-economic areas were seen individually at their local kindergarten and were assessed on code-related measures (letter name…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Preschool Children, Emergent Literacy
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