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Novogrodsky, Rama; Caldwell-Harris, Catherine; Fish, Sarah; Hoffmeister, Robert J. – Language Learning, 2014
It is unknown if the developmental path of antonym knowledge in deaf children increases continuously with age and correlates with reading comprehension, as it does in hearing children. In the current study we tested 564 students aged 4-18 on a receptive multiple-choice American Sign Language (ASL) antonym test. A subgroup of 138 students aged 7-18…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, English
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Leow, Ronald P.; Hsieh, Hui-Chen; Moreno, Nina – Language Learning, 2008
The present study revisited the issue of simultaneous attention to form and meaning from a methodological perspective that addressed several potential methodological issues of previous research in this strand of inquiry. Seventy-two second-semester-level participants were randomly assigned to one of five experimental groups, including a control,…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Reading Comprehension, Protocol Analysis, Multiple Choice Tests
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Buck, Gary; Tatsuoka, Kumi; Kostin, Irene – Language Learning, 1997
Used the rule-space methodology to analyze performance on a multiple-choice reading comprehension test by students of English as a Second Language in Japan in an international business setting. Findings indicate that the rule-space methodology can explain performance on complex verbal tasks, such as reading tests, and provide diagnostic scores to…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, International Trade