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Signy Wegener; Anne Castles; Elisabeth Beyersmann; Kate Nation; Hua-Chen Wang; Erik D. Reichle – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
Spreading out study opportunities over time improves the retention of verbal material compared to consecutive study, yet little is known about the influence of temporal spacing on orthographic learning specifically. The current study addressed four questions: (1) do readers' eye movements during orthographic learning differ under spaced and massed…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Simulation, Intervals, Orthographic Symbols
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Wegener, Signy; Wang, Hua-Chen; Beyersmann, Elisabeth; Reichle, Erik D.; Nation, Kate; Castles, Anne – Reading Research Quarterly, 2023
Distributing study opportunities over time typically improves the retention of verbal material compared to consecutive study trials, yet little is known about the influence of temporal spacing on orthographic form learning specifically. This experiment sought to obtain and compare estimates of the magnitude of the spacing effect on written word…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Written Language, Sentences, Intervals
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David L. Share – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
In this essay, I outline some of the essential ingredients of a universal theory of reading acquisition, one that seeks to highlight commonalities while embracing the global diversity of languages, writing systems, and cultures. I begin by stressing the need to consider insights from multiple disciplines including neurobiology, cognitive science,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Reading Instruction, Reading Processes
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Terry, Pamela R. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1976
One of four International Reading Association award-winning dissertations from 1975. (RB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Decoding (Reading), Doctoral Dissertations, Orthographic Symbols
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Brown, Eric – Reading Research Quarterly, 1970
Descriptors: Dialects, Language Acquisition, Learning Theories, Models