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Comer, William J. – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2012
This study describes how intermediate-level first language English readers of Russian as a second language deploy lexical inferencing and other strategies when reading informational texts. Fifth-semester students of Russian performed think-alouds while reading two texts; one written for the general adult reader, and the other meant for school-age…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Protocol Analysis, Russian, Inferences
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Adelman, James S.; Marquis, Suzanne J.; Sabatos-DeVito, Maura G.; Estes, Zachary – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
The effects of properties of words on their reading aloud response times (RTs) are 1 major source of evidence about the reading process. The precision with which such RTs could potentially be predicted by word properties is critical to evaluate our understanding of reading but is often underestimated due to contamination from individual…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Processes, Comparative Analysis, Regression (Statistics)