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Edward J. Alexander – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Psycholinguistic research aims to understand how people make sense of language in their everyday lives. However, most of this research studies language under experimental conditions in which people are instructed to specifically monitor (and indicate) when there is a breakdown in their understanding. Moreover, there is an assumption that people…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Psycholinguistics, Reading Research
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Letchford, Lois; Rasinski, Timothy – Reading Teacher, 2021
"Little" words often carry complex meanings. Pronoun resolution is an essential component of comprehension. Skilled readers work to maintain text cohesion (i.e., they resolve the pronouns as needed.) Less proficient readers often are not as proficient in resolving pronouns. Limited pronoun resolution limits comprehension. This article…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Roembke, Tanja C.; Hazeltine, Eliot; Reed, Deborah K.; McMurray, Bob – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Many middle-school students struggle with basic reading skills. One reason for this might be a lack of automaticity in word-level lexical processes. To investigate this, we used a novel backward masking paradigm, in which a written word is either covered with a mask or not. Participants (N = 444 [after exclusions]; n[subscript female] = 264,…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Skills, Decoding (Reading), Reading Fluency
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Hurwitz, Lisa B.; Macaruso, Paul; Thang, Sarah; Studwell, Jamie – Computers in the Schools, 2022
Unfortunately, far too many American adolescents are unable to read proficiently. The science of reading suggests explicit instruction in both word identification and language processing skills should bolster reading proficiency, but most commercial reading interventions for secondary students focus exclusively on the latter skill area. This study…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Skills, Computer Software Evaluation, Literacy Education
John Hollander; John Sabatini; Art Graesser; Daphne Greenberg; Tenaha O'Reilly; Jan Frijters – Grantee Submission, 2023
Adult literacy learners are characterized by their diversity, both in terms of educational histories and cognitive skill sets. Accounting for the specific strengths and weaknesses of each learner is vital to the assessment of literacy gains and optimization of educational systems. We examined pre- and post-difference scores on a component reading…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Education, Adult Students, Student Characteristics
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John Hollander; John Sabatini; Art Graesser; Daphne Greenberg; Tenaha O'Reilly; Jan Frijters – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2023
Adult literacy learners are characterized by their diversity, both in terms of educational histories and cognitive skill sets. Accounting for the specific strengths and weaknesses of each learner is vital to the assessment of literacy gains and optimization of educational systems. We examined pre- and post-difference scores on a component reading…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Education, Adult Students, Student Characteristics
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Paz Suárez-Coalla; María Suárez-Romón; Verónica Martínez – Reading Psychology, 2024
Oral language abilities have been reported to be related to reading development. This relationship seems to be determined by orthographic systems and reading development. Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) show reading difficulties, although most studies focus on reading comprehension. The present study has two main objectives: to…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Skills, Language Impairments, Developmental Delays
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Alshenqeeti, Hamza; Alrahaili, Musaad – Arab World English Journal, 2020
Recent developments in English language teaching and learning have heightened the need for the use of tasks to foster second language (L2) learning. Central to task-based interaction is the repetition of the same task. Task repetition (TR) stimulates cognitive skills for speech learning and functionality. It has been emphasised in research and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Skills
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Lim, Hyojung – Language Testing in Asia, 2020
The current study aims to explore the cognitive validity of the iBT TOEFL reading test by investigating test takers' eye movements on individual items. It is assumed that successful test takers would adopt the intended reading processes, the same types and levels of cognitive processes that they would use for real-world reading tasks. Forty-seven…
Descriptors: Test Validity, High Stakes Tests, Second Language Learning, Language Tests
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Trezek, Beverly; Mayer, Connie – Education Sciences, 2019
Over the years, persistently low achievement levels have led scholars to question whether reading skill development is different for deaf readers. Research findings suggest that in order for deaf students to become proficient readers, they must master the same fundamental abilities that are well established for hearing learners, regardless of the…
Descriptors: Deafness, Reading Skills, Hearing (Physiology), Learning Processes
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Mor, Billy; Prior, Anat – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
Reading efficiently in a second language (L2) is a crucial skill, but it is not universally achieved. Here we ask whether L2 reading efficiency is better captured as a language specific skill or whether it is mostly shared across L1 and L2, relying on general language abilities. To this end, we examined word frequency and predictability effects in…
Descriptors: Prediction, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension
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Glazzard, Jonathan – English in Education, 2017
The purpose of this article is to question the suitability of the phonics screening check in relation to models and theories of reading development. The article questions the appropriateness of the check by drawing on theoretical frameworks which underpin typical reading development. I examine the Simple View of Reading developed by Gough and…
Descriptors: Phonics, Foreign Countries, Sequential Learning, Reading Skills
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Balling, Laura Winther – Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2018
This article considers text comprehension through the integrated perspectives of language processing research and practical writing advice as expressed in writing guides and language policies. Such guides for instance include advice to use active constructions instead of passives and sentences instead of nominalizations. These recommended and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Regression (Statistics), Language Processing, Writing (Composition)
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Fumero, Keisey; Tibi, Sana – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2020
Purpose: This clinical focus article will highlight the importance and role of morphological awareness (MA) across orthographies, in particular, the role it plays in reading development, specifically with bilingual populations. MA supports reading acquisition and development beyond other predictors of reading, such as phonological awareness,…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, Intervention, Bilingualism
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Braze, David; Katz, Leonard; Magnuson, James S.; Mencl, W. Einar; Tabor, Whitney; Van Dyke, Julie A.; Gong, Tao; Johns, Clinton L.; Shankweiler, Donald P. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
Gough and Tunmer's (1986) simple view of reading (SVR) proposed that reading comprehension (RC) is a function of language comprehension (LC) and word recognition/decoding. Braze et al. (2007) presented data suggesting an extension of the SVR in which knowledge of vocabulary (V) affected RC over and above the effects of LC. Tunmer and Chapman…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Structural Equation Models, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension
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