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Direct linkMesser, David; Dockrell, Julie E. – First Language, 2013
Word finding difficulties (WFDs) occur in more than a quarter of children who are receiving speech and language therapy. This study provides the first investigation of the continuity in WFDs and investigates whether WFDs are associated with phonological or semantically related abilities. Thirty-eight children with WFDs were seen at age 7;0 and at…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Reading Difficulties, Reading Ability, Children
Li, Jia – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2010
A substantial amount of literature regarding first language (L1) acquisition has shown that reading for meaning significantly contributes to vocabulary expansion and strongly relates to overall academic success. Research in the English as a Second Language (ESL) context, however, has presented mixed results, in particular for recent immigrant…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Computer Assisted Instruction, Word Recognition, Monolingualism
Peer reviewedEichenlaub, W. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1974
Discusses techniques for testing reading of "sight" passages. (HW)
Descriptors: German, Language Tests, Reading Ability, Reading Comprehension
Sung, Robert – 1977
These placement tests are designed to help teachers determine a students' Chinese reading and writing level and to place them in the appropriate grade level book in the Golden Mountain Reading Series. The tests are divided into two parts: (1) word recognition and (2) reading and writing test. (Author/CFM)
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Bilingual Education, Chinese, Chinese Americans
Download full textBrace, J. L. – 1957
This pamphlet discusses the need for reliable standardized tests for the selection and classification of Welsh-dominant students in Wales and for the evaluation of their language skills. Because of the correlation in performance, the standardized word-recognition test described here applies to predominantly Welsh-background individuals and not to…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Educational Policy
PDF pending restorationAraman, Bonnie D. – 1976
Twenty English-Japanese bilingual subjects were given the following reading tasks: timed, silent reading of passages in English and Japanese followed by comprehension tests and recognition of tachistoscopic presentations of twenty words in each language. The amount of reading the subjects had done in English and Japanese was assessed in an…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Bilingualism, College Students, English (Second Language)
Lee, Gabriel A. – Online Submission, 2002
Rauding theory states that two factors, accuracy and rate, explain nearly all the variance in the general reading ability of American schoolchildren (Carver, 1999). Using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and regression, this dissertation investigated to what extent the Rauding model could be applied to 92 Japanese university aged young adults…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Structural Equation Models, Word Recognition, Reading Ability
