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Arfé, Barbara; Festa, Federica; Ronconi, Lucia; Spicciarelli, Gaia – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Text generation--the mental translation of ideas into language at word, sentence, and discourse levels--involves oral language abilities. However, oral language skills are rarely a target of writing interventions. We ran an intervention to improve fifth and 10th graders' written production through the development of oral sentence generation…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, High School Students, Grade 5, Grade 10
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Tighe, Elizabeth L.; Little, Callie W.; Arrastia-Chisholm, Meagan Caridad; Schatschneider, Christopher; Diehm, Emily; Quinn, Jamie M.; Edwards, Ashley A. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine the shared, direct, and indirect contributions of three metalinguistic skills (phonological awareness, morphological awareness, orthographic knowledge) to the reading comprehension abilities of struggling adult readers. Across studies, these three metalinguistic skills have individually emerged as important…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Metalinguistics, Adults, Reading Difficulties
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Zhang, Jie; Li, Hong; Liu, Yang; Chen, Yu – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
Two experiments investigated whether exposure to Chinese characters and pinyin would facilitate oral vocabulary learning for Chinese as a first (L1) and second (L2) language learners. In Experiment 1, 48 second Chinese graders studied 15 made-up associations between spoken labels and pictures accompanied either by no orthography, by pinyin, or…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods, Chinese
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Al Otaiba, Stephanie; Connor, Carol McDonald; Crowe, Elizabeth – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
Research to guide text structure interventions for the primary grades is very limited, yet as early as in kindergarten, many state standards increasingly emphasize exposure to challenging expository texts. The purpose of the present study was to provide preliminary evidence of the feasibility and promise (or the effects) of three brief text…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Teaching Methods, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Michael Nussbaum, E.; Dove, Ian J.; Slife, Nathan; Kardash, CarolAnne M.; Turgut, Refika; Vallett, David – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
Although the Toulmin model (1958) has dominated argumentation research, it does not provide many tools for evaluating argument quality. Towards that end, we draw on work in philosophy on argument schemes, and critical questions for evaluating those schemes. In our approach, we integrate the teaching of critical questions with argumentation vee…
Descriptors: Seminars, Undergraduate Students, Oral Language, Writing Evaluation
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Lee, Sung Hee; Tsai, Shu-Fei – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
Students with specific poor comprehension (SPC) can sound out words accurately, but have difficulty understanding what they read. However, most existing reading intervention studies on students with reading disabilities did not differentiate students with SPC from other types of students with reading disabilities who accompany with decoding…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Classification
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Arfé, Barbara; Dockrell, Julie E.; De Bernardi, Bianca – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
Spelling skills have been identified as one of the major barriers to written text production in young English writers. By contrast oral language skills and text generation have been found to be less influential in the texts produced by beginning writers. To date, our understanding of the role of spelling skills in transparent orthographies is…
Descriptors: Spelling, Oral Language, English, Writing (Composition)
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Shenoy, Sunaina; Wagner, Richard K.; Rao, Nisha M. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
This study explores the possibility of adapting specific progress-monitoring tools developed in the US for use in English-medium private schools in Bangalore. In the US, many teachers adopt progress-monitoring tools like the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) and Curriculum Based Measurement (easyCBM) to keep track of their…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Elementary School Students
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Neuman, Susan B.; Wong, Kevin M.; Kaefer, Tanya – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of digital and non-digital storybooks on low-income preschoolers' oral language comprehension. Employing a within-subject design on 38 four-year-olds from a Head Start program, we compared the effect of medium on preschoolers' target words and comprehension of stories. Four digital…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Statistical Analysis, Preschool Education, Disadvantaged Youth