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Song, Ziming; Liang, Xiaowei; Wang, Yongsheng; Yan, Guoli – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
There is no obvious boundary information in Chinese reading. It has been shown that the introduction of word boundary information presented with alternating colors without changing the text distribution could significantly improve the reading speed of Chinese children in grade 2 (Perea and Wang in Mem Cognit 45(7):1160-1170, 2017.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Grade 3
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Pan, Jinger; Liu, Miaomiao; Li, Hong; Yan, Ming – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Word boundary information is not marked explicitly in Chinese sentences and word ambiguity happens in Chinese texts. This introduces difficulty to parse characters into words when reading Chinese sentences, especially for beginning readers. In an eye-tracking study, we tested whether explicit word boundary information as provided by alternating…
Descriptors: Sentences, Reading Processes, Chinese, Ambiguity (Semantics)
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Huschka, Sina S.; Georgiou, George K.; Brandenburg, Janin; Ehm, Jan-Henning; Hasselhorn, Marcus – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
We examined the contribution of rapid automatized naming (RAN) components (articulation time, pause time, and pause time consistency) to reading fluency, reading comprehension, and spelling in a sample of 257 German children (139 boys, 118 girls; M[subscript age] = 5.60 years, SD = 0.31) followed from kindergarten to Grade 1. In kindergarten,…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, German, Kindergarten
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Stringer, Ronald W.; Toplak, Maggie E.; Stanovich, Keith E. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2004
In this study, we investigated the relationships between rapid naming of letters, digits and colours, and reading ability and executive function. We gave fifty-six grade three and four children rapid automatised naming tasks using letters and digits as stimuli, executive function measures including the Stroop task, a working memory task and the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Memory, Reading Ability, Brain