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Oines, Leif – ProQuest LLC, 2019
In conversation or during reading, we sometimes find ourselves making predictions about the identity of an upcoming word or phrase. This phenomenon has been reflected in the results of laboratory experiments that show changes in eye gaze patterns or the Electroencephalogram (EEG) "prior" to encountering a predicted word. However,…
Descriptors: Prediction, Reading Comprehension, Word Recognition, Associative Learning
Kessler, Michele Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Students with learning disabilities (LD) often struggle with reading comprehension (Shaywitz, 2003), even after attaining basic decoding skills. Similar proportions of students with LD have also been found to differ from their typical peers in some aspect of social adjustment (Kavale & Forness, 1996). Yet there is very little known about the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Cues, Learning Disabilities, Social Adjustment
Muhammad M. Zayyad – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this mixed-methods research was to examine the impact of mediated cognitive strategy intervention on the reading comprehension and self-efficacy of Palestinian-Arab middle school students with learning disabilities. Eighteen seventh-grade students with LD who were placed in two self-contained special education classrooms and their…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Self Efficacy