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Korinth, Sebastian P.; Fiebach, Christian J. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2018
This feasibility study investigated if feedback about individual eye movements, reflecting varying word processing stages, can improve reading performance. Twenty-five university students read 90 newspaper articles during 9 eye-tracking sessions. Training group participants (n = 12) were individually briefed before each session, which eye movement…
Descriptors: Reading Improvement, Feedback (Response), Eye Movements, Feasibility Studies
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Georgiou, George K.; Das, J. P. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2015
The present study aimed to examine the nature of the working memory and general cognitive ability deficits experienced by university students with a specific reading comprehension deficit. A total of 32 university students with poor reading comprehension but average word-reading skills and 60 age-word-matched controls with no comprehension…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, College Students, Reading Difficulties, Short Term Memory
Zhou, Ruiqi – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2011
Readers' reading purpose is of great significance to their use of text processing strategies, their achievement in recall and reading comprehension in L1 reading research. To test its role in EFL learning, the author conducted an experiment to 18 EFL Chinese learners of English. Think-aloud and written recall methods were adopted and the result…
Descriptors: Word Processing, Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Reading Achievement