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Yang, Shuyi – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
The present study examined the components of oral reading fluency (ORF) via various indices and their relationships with comprehension and learner-perceived difficulty of oral reading among Chinese second language (L2) learners. One hundred participants read aloud paragraphs, completed the comprehension test, and rated the difficulty of the oral…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Chinese
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Art Tsang; Susanna Siu-sze Yeung – SAGE Open, 2024
Despite much attention having been paid to foreign language (FL) reading and related variables such as self-efficacy, relatively few studies have focused on young learners, and even fewer on storybooks, arguably the commonest genre read by children worldwide for language learning. As FL learning commences at a young age in many contexts globally,…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Language Proficiency, Correlation, English (Second Language)
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Rønberg, Louise Flensted; Petersen, Dorthe Klint – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2016
This study explores the incidence of poor comprehenders, that is, children identified as having reading comprehension difficulties, despite age-appropriate word reading skills. It supports the findings that some children do show poor reading comprehension, despite age-appropriate word reading, as measured with a phonological coding test. However,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Word Recognition, Reading Difficulties, Coding
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Greulich, Luana; Al Otaiba, Stephanie; Schatschneider, Christopher; Wanzek, Jeanne; Ortiz, Miriam; Wagner, Richard K. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2014
The purpose of this study was to use a mixed methods approach to learn about inadequate response to a year-long multi-tier response to intervention (RTI) model that allowed first-grade students to move up and down tiers. Participants were 156 students who received supplemental intervention services during a larger multi-tier RTI study involving…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Elementary School Students, Mixed Methods Research, Regression (Statistics)
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Panagiotakopoulos, Chris T.; Sarris, Menelaos E. – International Education Studies, 2013
The present study reports the basic characteristics of a game-like application entitled "Playing with Words-PwW". PwW is a single-user application where a word must be guessed given an anagram of that word. Anagrams are presented from a predefined word list and users can repeatedly try to guess the word, from which the anagram is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Educational Games, Word Lists
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Hurst, Melissa; Jolivette, Kristine – Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities, 2006
Students with disabilities often have difficulties acquiring basic reading skills. The purpose of this study was to determine if private or public timed assessment readings with the Corrective Reading Program were more effective in improving students' reading fluency. An alternating treatments design was used with three male middle school students…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Corrective Reading, Reading Programs, Mild Disabilities