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Alyssa Vuogan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Second language (L2) writing has been determined to be influenced by what is read, with language learners tending to borrow words and short phrases from input texts while writing (e.g., Wang & Wang, 2015). This phenomenon is referred to as lexical alignment. Only one empirical study has investigated the influence that the linguistic complexity…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Individual Differences
Kathryn A. Tremblay; Katherine S. Binder; Scott P. Ardoin; Armani Talwar; Elizabeth L. Tighe – Grantee Submission, 2021
Background: Of the myriad of reading comprehension (RC) assessments used in schools, multiple-choice (MC) questions continue to be one of the most prevalent formats used by educators and researchers. Outcomes from RC assessments dictate many critical factors encountered during a student's academic career, and it is crucial that we gain a deeper…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Eye Movements, Expository Writing, Grade 3
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Chapleau, Marianne; Wilson, Maximiliano A.; Potvin, Karel; Harvey-Langton, Alexandra; Montembeault, Maxime; Brambati, Simona M. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2017
Background: Successful reading can be achieved by means of two different procedures: sub-word processes for the pronunciation of words without semantics or pseudowords (PW) and whole-word processes that recruit word-specific information regarding the pronunciation of words with atypical orthography-to-phonology mappings (exception words, EW).…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Pronunciation, Reading Strategies, Reading Skills
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Erikson, Jessie A.; Alt, Mary; Gray, Shelley; Green, Samuel; Hogan, Tiffany P.; Cowan, Nelson – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
This study examined accuracy on syllable-final (coda) consonants in newly-learned English-like nonwords to determine whether school-aged bilingual children may be more vulnerable to making errors on English-only codas than their monolingual, English-speaking peers, even at a stage in development when phonological accuracy in productions of…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Phonology, Syllables, Bilingualism
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Košak-Babuder, Milena; Kormos, Judit; Ratajczak, Michael; Pižorn, Karmen – Language Testing, 2019
One of the special arrangements in testing contexts is to allow dyslexic students to listen to the text while they read. In our study, we investigated the effect of read-aloud assistance on young English learners' language comprehension scores. We also examined whether students with dyslexia identification benefit from this assistance differently…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Identification, Scores, English (Second Language)
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Al Dahhan, Noor Z.; Kirby, John R.; Brien, Donald C.; Munoz, Douglas P. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2017
Naming speed (NS) refers to how quickly and accurately participants name a set of familiar stimuli (e.g., letters). NS is an established predictor of reading ability, but controversy remains over why it is related to reading. We used three techniques (stimulus manipulations to emphasize phonological and/or visual aspects, decomposition of NS times…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Comparative Analysis, Eye Movements, Visual Stimuli
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Fragkouli, Konstantina; Antoniou, Faye; Mouzaki, Angeliki; Ralli, Asimina M.; Kokkali, Vasiliki; Alexoudi, Kariofyllia – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2022
The development of spelling skill is an intricate process for children with or at risk of Specific Learning Disabilities and requires targeted interventions. This problem exacerbates in the Greek orthographic system owning to its high complexity. The current study presents a novel spelling intervention program for Greek 3rd graders at risk of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Spelling, At Risk Students, Reading Fluency
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Khalid, Nursyairah Mohd; Buari, Noor Halilah; Chen, Ai-Hong – International Education Studies, 2017
This paper compares the oral reading errors between the contextual sentences and random words among schoolchildren. Two sets of reading materials were developed to test the oral reading errors in 30 schoolchildren (10.00±1.44 years). Set A was comprised contextual sentences while Set B encompassed random words. The schoolchildren were asked to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indonesian Languages, Oral Reading, Error Analysis (Language)
Benitez-Rivera, Wilma I. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Reading is an active process where readers sometimes have difficulty understanding what they read. Ultimately, readers are required to combine the meaning of each sentence in a text in order to achieve text-level comprehension. Otherwise, the reader is going to have great difficulty with text-level comprehension. Factors such as sentence length…
Descriptors: Punctuation, Reading Comprehension, Sentences, Grade 4
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Fu, Jianbin; Wise, Maxwell – ETS Research Report Series, 2012
In the Cognitively Based Assessment of, for, and as Learning ("CBAL"™) research initiative, innovative K-12 prototype tests based on cognitive competency models are developed. This report presents the statistical results of the 2 CBAL Grade 8 writing tests and 2 Grade 7 reading tests administered to students in 20 states in spring 2011.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Grade 8, Writing Tests, Grade 7
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Nesari, Shahram Jamali; Kamari, Elahe – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This research investigated the word reading performance of Persian speaking dyslexic children through the use of a reading test. For this reason, 15 Persian elementary developmental dyslexic student with the mean age of 9.6, (SD= 1.5) and 15 Persian unimpaired elementary student with the mean age of 9.6 (SD= 1.4) were compared. The performance of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Dyslexia, Children, Reading Difficulties
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Harnisch, Delwyn L.; Linn, Robert L. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1981
Different indices can be used to measure an individual's pattern of responses on an achievement test as usual or consistent with the norm. The relationships among eight of these indices are investigated for a math and reading test given to approximately 2,100 fourth-grade students. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Error Patterns, Grade 4
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Hoxhallari, Lorenc; van Daal, Victor H. P.; Ellis, Nick C. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2004
Effects of orthographic transparency were examined by comparing children learning to read in Albanian, Welsh, and English. Twenty Year 1 Albanian children were given a reading test consisting of a 100-word stratified sample of decreasing written frequency. They were able to read accurately 80% of the words; reading latency was a direct effect of…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Reading Instruction, Reading Tests, Word Recognition
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Guron, Louise Miller; Lundberg, Ingvar – Dyslexia, 2004
A comparative investigation of word reading efficiency indicates that different strategies may be used by English and Swedish early readers. In a first study, 328 native English speakers from UK Years 3 and 6 completed a pen-and-paper word recognition task (the "Wordchains" test). Results were analysed for frequency and type of errors…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Word Recognition, Primary Education, Decoding (Reading)
Dunn-Rankin, Peter – 1971
Subjects ranging from preschoolers to professors were asked to choose between pairs of stimulus pseudowords, the one most like a given target word. Unidimensional scale analysis, item analysis, and factor analysis of the data resulted in the following findings: (1) Adults showed a dominant preference to "addition" errors as opposed to errors of…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Rating Scales, Comparative Analysis, Error Patterns