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Yeari, Menahem; van den Broek, Paul; Oudega, Marja – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
The present study examined the effect of reading goals on the processing and memory of central and peripheral textual information. Using eye-tracking methodology, we compared the effect of four common reading goals--entertainment, presentation, studying for a close-ended (multiple-choice) questions test, and studying for an open-ended questions…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Memory, Eye Movements, Comparative Analysis
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Mohamed, Wessam; Elbert, Thomas; Landerl, Karin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
In a cross-sectional study, we investigated the development of fluent reading and spelling in the first 3 years of learning Arabic. The goals of our study were to: (1) validate suitable measures for fluent reading and spelling in the first 3 years of learning Arabic; (2) trace the developmental course of the relationship between fluent reading and…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Scripts, Spelling, Reading Fluency
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Sebastian-Galles, Nuria; Vacchiano, Ana Parreno – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1995
Presents the use and development of analogical processes in learning to read in Spanish. Finds that 6-year-old children show logical effects in reading pseudowords, and the magnitude of this effect is the same with 10-year-olds. Cautions that 10-year-olds make more lexicalizations when reading pseudowords and that 9-year-olds can make more…
Descriptors: Analogy, Elementary Education, Reading, Reading Processes