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Direct linkHu, Hsien; Tsai, Chih-Yung – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2019
The present study investigates common word reading dilemmas across 3 word types among children learning English as a foreign language (EFL). It also examines the effectiveness of a new word reading strategy, perceptual diacritics, for facilitating EFL children's word reading dilemmas through an experimental design in which the experimental group…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Sight Method, Reading Instruction
Benton, Turrah S. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Over the years, teachers have looked for the best way to teach their students to read. There are those who believe that teaching sight words is the best way to teach while others believe that a foundation in phonics instruction is a must. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect that phonics instruction has on the oral reading fluency…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Elementary School Students, Phonics
Conradi, Kristin; Amendum, Steven J.; Liebfreund, Meghan D. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2016
This study examined the contributions of decoding, language, spelling, and motivation to the reading comprehension of elementary school readers in a high-poverty setting. Specifically, the research questions addressed whether and how the influences of word reading efficiency, semantic knowledge, reading self-concept, and spelling on reading…
Descriptors: Poverty, Reading, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension
Tong, Xiuli; McBride-Chang, Catherine – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2010
This study examined the associations of Chinese visual-orthographic skills, phonological awareness, and morphological awareness to Chinese and English word reading among 326 Hong Kong Chinese second- and fifth-graders learning English as a second language. Developmentally, tasks of visual-orthographic skill, phonological awareness, and…
Descriptors: Chinese, English (Second Language), Written Language, Reading Skills
Nanda, Alice O.; Greenberg, Daphne; Morris, Robin – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2010
This study examined whether measurement constructs behind reading-related tests for struggling adult readers are similar to what is known about measurement constructs for children. The sample included 371 adults reading between the third-and fifth-grade levels, including 127 men and 153 English speakers of other languages. Using measures of skills…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Reading Skills, Reading Difficulties, Factor Analysis
Download full textCamargo, Jennifer; Navarro, Jenny Carolina Orbegozo – HOW, 2010
Due to the role language and literature play in the construction of social, economic and cultural systems, reading comprehension has become a growing challenge. This study examined how the relationship between English as a foreign language reading comprehension and life experiences while using the "Sight Word Strategy" could prove…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension
Bliss, Stacy L.; Skinner, Christopher H.; Adams, Regina – School Psychology Review, 2006
A multiple-baseline design across word lists was used to investigate the effects of a modified taped-words intervention on Dolch word reading of a fifth-grade student who speaks English as a second language. The student completed a daily self-managed intervention in which he listened to lists of 30 sight-words while reading along, attempting to…
Descriptors: Intervention, Intervals, Word Lists, Second Language Learning
