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Clinton, Virginia – Journal of Research in Reading, 2019
Background: Given the increasing popularity of reading from screens, it is not surprising that numerous studies have been conducted comparing reading from paper and electronic sources. The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to consolidate the findings on reading performance, reading times and calibration of performance…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Meta Analysis, Reading Skills, Metacognition
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Rodríguez-Ortiz, Isabel R.; Saldaña, David; Moreno-Perez, Francisco J. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2017
The aim of the study is to describe the performance of deaf and hearing people while speechreading Spanish, a language with transparent orthography, and to relate this skill to reading efficiency. Three groups of 27 participants each were recruited: a group of deaf participants, a chronological age-matched hearing group and a reading age-matched…
Descriptors: Lipreading, Deafness, Foreign Countries, Spanish
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Babayigit, Selma – Journal of Research in Reading, 2014
The study examined the role of oral language skills in reading comprehension and listening comprehension levels of 125 monolingual (L1) and bilingual (L2) English-speaking learners (M = 121.5 months, SD = 4.65) in England. All testing was conducted in English. The L1 learners outperformed their L2 peers on the measures of oral language and text…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Oral Language, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
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Suárez-Coalla, Paz; Álvarez-Cañizo, Marta; Cuetos, Fernando – Journal of Research in Reading, 2016
In order to read fluently, children have to form orthographic representations. Despite numerous investigations, there is no clear answer to the question of the number of times they need to read a word to form an orthographic representation. We used length effect on reading times as a measure, because there are large differences between long and…
Descriptors: Spanish, Reading Fluency, Reading Rate, Word Frequency
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Tafa, Eufimia; Manolitsis, George – Journal of Research in Reading, 2012
The aim of this follow-up study was to examine the progress made by 13 Greek-speaking precocious readers in phonological awareness, reading and spelling from the fourth to sixth grades of primary education, and to compare their progress with that of 11 nonprecocious reader classmates. It was hypothesised that because of the linguistic…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Comparative Analysis, High Achievement, Spelling
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Northway, Nadia; Manahilov, Velitchko; Simpson, William – Journal of Research in Reading, 2010
Previous studies of visually symptomatic dyslexics have found that their contrast thresholds for pattern discrimination are the same as non-dyslexics. However, when noise is added to the stimuli, contrast thresholds rise markedly in dyslexics compared with non-dyslexics. This result could be due to impaired noise exclusion in dyslexics. Some…
Descriptors: Reading Rate, Dyslexia, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Visual Perception