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Messbauer, Vera C. S.; de Jong, Peter F. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2006
In three studies, the effects of visual and phonological distinctness on the visual-verbal paired associate learning of dyslexic and normal readers at the age of 10-12 were examined. We hypothesized that both groups would be equally affected by the visual distinctness of the pictures, whereas the learning performance of the dyslexic children would…
Descriptors: Paired Associate Learning, Dyslexia, Children, Verbal Stimuli
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Goff, Deborah A.; Pratt, Chris; Ong, Ben – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2005
The primary aim of the current study was to identify the strongest independent predictors of reading comprehension using word reading, language and memory variables in a normal sample of 180 children in grades 3-5, with a range of word reading skills. It was hypothesized that orthographic processing, receptive vocabulary and verbal working memory…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Language Skills, Memory, Decoding (Reading)