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Mason, Lucia; Tornatora, Maria Caterina; Pluchino, Patrik – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
Printed or digital textbooks contain texts accompanied by various kinds of visualisation. Successful comprehension of these materials requires integrating verbal and graphical information. This study investigates the time course of processing an illustrated text through eye-tracking methodology in the school context. The aims were to identify…
Descriptors: Illustrations, Language Processing, Reading, Eye Movements
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Ramirez, Gloria; Chen, Xi; Geva, Esther; Kiefer, Heidi – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2010
This study investigated within and cross-language effects of morphological awareness on word reading among Spanish-speaking children who were English Language Learners. Participants were 97 Spanish-speaking children in grade 4 and grade 7. Morphological awareness in Spanish and in English was evaluated with two measures of derivational morphology.…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Morphology (Languages)
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Schiff, Rachel; Raveh, Michal; Kahta, Shani – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2008
This study investigated the development of automatic word recognition processes, in particular the development of the morphological level of processing. We examined masked priming of Hebrew irregular forms at two levels of reading experience. Both third- and seventh-grade children showed morphological priming for defective roots when primes and…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Semitic Languages, Language Processing, Morphology (Languages)