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Kumar, Uttam; Padakannaya, Prakash – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
We employed functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and diffuse tensor imaging (DTI) to study neural implications of silent reading of words in mutually comprehensible but visually and orthographically distinct languages for example Hindi and Urdu by independent groups of skilled readers. The fMRI results (conjunction analyses) showed the…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Reading Comprehension, Indo European Languages
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Rodgers, Michael P. H.; Webb, Stuart – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2011
In this study, the scripts of 288 television episodes were analyzed to determine the extent to which vocabulary reoccurs in related and unrelated television programs, and the potential for incidental vocabulary learning through watching one season (approximately 24 episodes) of television programs. The scripts consisted of 1,330,268 running words…
Descriptors: Television, Television Viewing, Scripts, Content Analysis