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Cho, Eunsoo; Compton, Donald L.; Gilbert, Jennifer K.; Steacy, Laura M.; Collins, Alyson A.; Lindström, Esther R. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2017
Dynamic assessment (DA) of word reading measures learning potential for early reading development by documenting the amount of assistance needed to learn how to read words with unfamiliar orthography. We examined the additive value of DA for predicting first-grade decoding and word recognition development while controlling for autoregressive…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Reading Skills, Word Recognition, Decoding (Reading)
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Nielsen, Diane Corcoran; Luetke, Barbara; McLean, Meigan; Stryker, Deborah – American Annals of the Deaf, 2016
Research suggests that English-language proficiency is critical if students who are deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH) are to read as their hearing peers. One explanation for the traditionally reported reading achievement plateau when students are D/HH is the inability to hear insalient English morphology. Signing Exact English can provide visual…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Reading Skills, Reading Achievement
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Tanabe, Masayuki – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2016
The present study addressed the role of speed as a factor in tests of second language (L2) vocabulary knowledge, presupposing that speed of performance is important in actual language use. Research questions were: (a) Do learners with a larger vocabulary size answer faster on an L2 vocabulary breadth test than smaller vocabulary sized learners?;…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Vocabulary Skills, Alternative Assessment
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Wilson, Andrew; Kim, Wonsun – International Education Studies, 2016
The purpose of the study is to investigate the effects of concept mapping on mastery goal orientation and academic self-efficacy in a collaborative learning environment. The current study employed a randomized controlled pretest-posttest group design to examine if learning strategies such as concept mapping can help students with both reading…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Self Efficacy, Mastery Learning, Goal Orientation
Peyman, Somayeh; Sadighi, Firooz – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2011
This investigation intended to find out the relationship between EFL learners' stress and their reading comprehension. The subjects who included ninety EFL juniors from Shiraz Azad University were asked to answer a standardized reading comprehension test and a stress questionnaire. After finding out the results of stress questionnaire, 10% of the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries, Stress Variables