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Diergarten, Anna Katharina; Nieding, Gerhild – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
Emotional inferences are conclusions that a reader draws about the emotional state of a story's protagonist. In this study, we examined whether children and adults draw emotional inferences while reading short stories or listening to an aural presentation of short stories. We used an online method that assesses inferences during reading with a…
Descriptors: Children, Adults, Age Differences, Inferences
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Liu, Duo; Chung, Kevin Kien Hoa; Zhang, Yimin; Lu, Zheng – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
The purpose of the present study was to investigate developmental differences in lexical processing and sensitivity to the positional information of constituent morphemes with reference to Chinese word-reading ability. One hundred mainland Chinese children (50 second graders and 50 third graders) and 22 high school students were tested with a…
Descriptors: Chinese, Morphemes, Task Analysis, Elementary School Students
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Schiff, Rachel; Ravid, Dorit – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of Socio-Economic Status (SES) on Hebrew-speaking children's developing ability to pluralize nouns and mark adjectives in agreement with them. Participants were 180 gradeschool children from mid-high SES and 180 peers from low SES, in six consecutive grade levels. The task consisted of 32…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Speech Communication, Socioeconomic Background, Nouns