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Wolters, Alissa P.; Kim, Young-Suk Grace; Szura, John William – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2022
We examined the relation between reading prosody and reading comprehension, using a systematic review and meta-analysis to estimate the strength of the relation and to understand whether the strength of the relation varies by prosody feature (adult-like contour, F0 sentence-final declination, grammatical pauses, ungrammatical pauses, prosody…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Meta Analysis
Wolters, Alissa P.; Kim, Young-Suk Grace; Szura, John William – Grantee Submission, 2020
We examined the relation between reading prosody and reading comprehension, using a systematic review and meta-analysis to estimate the strength of the relation and to understand whether the strength of the relation varies by prosody feature (adult-like contour, F0 sentence-final declination, grammatical pauses, ungrammatical pauses, prosody…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Meta Analysis
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Salarvand, Leila; Guimaraes, Nathalia; Balagholi, Zahra – THAITESOL Journal, 2022
Reading fluency is a skill, which is closely linked to reading comprehension. Learners' struggle with fluency in reading can be a significant hurdle to proficiency in their overall reading comprehension and competency. This paper, based on the thematic analysis approach, presents some theoretically pedagogical strategies discovered for developing…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Language Proficiency, Rhyme
Witte, Pauline L. – 1980
An informal study of four fourth and fifth grade poor readers was undertaken (1) to compare the repeated reading method of instruction with the method of teaching children to recognize lists of words rapidly and (2) to develop an approach that might be helpful in studying the effects of prosodic cues and their contributions to the repeated reading…
Descriptors: Cues, Elementary Education, Intonation, Oral Reading
Flippo, Rona F. – 1984
Punctuation serves as a system of visual markers that contradict previously generated false grammatical expectations. Word order conditions define the redundant or critical aspect of punctuation cues to visual display. Parsing (grouping) sentences into meaningful phrases and clauses aids language comprehension, and children who have reading…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Software, Intonation, Language Processing
Flippo, Rona F. – 1984
Working on the theory that intonation miscues caused by confusion over punctuation and other phrase boundaries will make the apprehension of text more difficult than necessary for young developing readers, a study reviewed the research and literature relevant to the effects of location of punctuation, phrasing, and line breaks in text and on the…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Intonation