Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 1 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 4 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 4 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 6 |
Descriptor
| Foreign Countries | 6 |
| Reading Comprehension | 6 |
| Short Term Memory | 5 |
| Second Language Learning | 3 |
| Turkish | 3 |
| Elementary School Students | 2 |
| English (Second Language) | 2 |
| Grade 4 | 2 |
| Inferences | 2 |
| Multiple Choice Tests | 2 |
| Naming | 2 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
| Computer Assisted Language… | 1 |
| Education | 1 |
| Psychology in the Schools | 1 |
| Second Language Research | 1 |
| TESOL Quarterly: A Journal… | 1 |
| Turkish Journal of Education | 1 |
Author
| Akoglu, Gözde | 1 |
| Alptekin, Cem | 1 |
| Cakir, Ozler | 1 |
| Ercetin, Gulcan | 1 |
| Ergül, Cevriye | 1 |
| Erçetin, Gülcan | 1 |
| Halil Ibrahim Öksüz | 1 |
| Hayati Akyol | 1 |
| Hopp, Holger | 1 |
| Kudret, Zeynep Bahap | 1 |
| Safak, Duygu Fatma | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 6 |
| Reports - Research | 5 |
| Reports - Evaluative | 1 |
| Speeches/Meeting Papers | 1 |
Education Level
| Elementary Education | 3 |
| Higher Education | 3 |
| Grade 4 | 2 |
| Postsecondary Education | 2 |
| Early Childhood Education | 1 |
| Grade 1 | 1 |
| Grade 2 | 1 |
| Intermediate Grades | 1 |
| Kindergarten | 1 |
| Primary Education | 1 |
Audience
Location
| Turkey | 6 |
| Germany | 1 |
| United Kingdom | 1 |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewed
Download full textHalil Ibrahim Öksüz; Hayati Akyol – Turkish Journal of Education, 2024
This study aims to evaluate word callers attending the fourth grade of primary school in terms of rapid naming, verbal working memory, and attention skills, and to examine the effect of the reciprocal teaching approach on the development of word callers' reading comprehension skills. The study group consisted of 25 word callers and 21 independent…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills
Direct linkErgül, Cevriye; Ökcün-Akçamus, Meral Çilem; Akoglu, Gözde; Yalçin, Seher; Tülü, Burcu Kiliç; Kudret, Zeynep Bahap – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
In this study, we aimed to determine the early cognitive and home environmental predictors of reading in Turkish-speaking children. A total of 362 children participated in the study. We monitored the children for 3 years and assessed the home environmental variables and cognitive skills in kindergarten, reading fluency at the end of the first…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Environment, Predictor Variables, Turkish
Safak, Duygu Fatma; Hopp, Holger – Second Language Research, 2022
To pinpoint difficulties in the second language (L2) processing of temporarily ambiguous sentences, this study investigates first language (L1) effects and effects of verb bias, i.e. frequency information about preferential verb complements, on semantic persistence effects in L2 sentence comprehension. We tested 32 L1 German and 32 L1 Turkish…
Descriptors: Verbs, Semantics, Second Language Learning, Language Processing
Varol, Burcu; Erçetin, Gülcan – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2021
This study explores the role of glosses and working memory capacity (WM) in second language (L2) learners' recall and comprehension in electronic reading. Glosses were investigated in terms of the type of information they provided (lexical versus topic-level) and their location on the screen (pop-up window versus separate window). One…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Short Term Memory, Reading Comprehension, Recall (Psychology)
Alptekin, Cem; Ercetin, Gulcan – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2011
This study examines the effects of working memory capacity and content familiarity on literal and inferential comprehension in second language (L2) reading. Participants were 62 Turkish university students with an advanced English proficiency level. Working memory capacity was measured through a computerized version of a reading span test, whereas…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Familiarity, Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning
Cakir, Ozler – Education, 2008
The main objective in the present study is to examine the effect of gender on primary school students' construction of elaborative backward inferences during text processing. A total of 333 children, aged 10-11 years (n = 158 girls and 175 boys) participated in the study. Each participant completed a backward inference test. The results indicate…
Descriptors: Females, Semantics, Memory, Inferences
