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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Reading patterns"”.
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Reading and Religion: Reconciling Diverse Reading Patterns and the First Year Composition Classroom
… first-year composition classroom, the writing patterns and argumentation skills of self-identified Christian students often frustrate teachers and create classroom dissonance and interpersonal divergence. This work looks at what apologetic and devotional texts these students are reading before …
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The Differences in First Graders’ Oral Reading Patterns between Literature Based Instruction and a Basal Program with a Heavy Emphasis on Phonics and Writing
… see if average first grade students in a basal reading program that heavily emphasized phonics and writing showed differences in reading patterns at 20 weeks, compared to average first grade students in a literature based program. This study examined the oral reading patterns of first graders …
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The role of memory processes and quality of lexical representations in native and non-native reading comprehension
… (L1) and second-language (L2) sentence reading. Although two memory-based accounts in sentence processing research, the capacity-based model (Just & Carpenter, 1992; King & Just, 1991) and the cue-based retrieval model (McElree & Vasishth, 2005; McElree, Vasishth, & Van Dyke, 2006; …
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Context and Vocabulary Acquisition: An Eye Movement Investigation
… novel words during the course of silent reading. The two types of contextual information were action context and categorical context. Two experiments were conducted, in which the context type was manipulated following novel or familiar target words to examine their impact on reading …
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Comparing incidental learning of nouns and verbs using eye movements
… incidentally during the course of natural reading. Prior research has identified a host of factors that affect the ease or likelihood of learning a new word from written context. Findings from various areas of cognitive science suggest that part of speech should be one such factor. Nouns …
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LeeLee : an attention visualisation analysis while reading academically
Understanding attention during academic reading is fundamental in the context of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Attention is a limited, yet essential resource that is crucial for processing academic texts and performing focused reading tasks. In a hyper-connected society, distractions from …
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Evaluating Context In Vocabulary Acquisition In Reading
… that underlie vocabulary acquisition in reading. The eye movements of adult skilled readers were monitored while they read sentences containing informative context followed by a known or novel target word. Both experiments provided new evidence of increased levels of target word and …
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Aspects of cohesion in web site translation: a translator's perspective
… in the way in which content is accessed, in reading patterns and in the general ordering of information on a web page and web site. Three key areas are identified as being fundamental to web site cohesion, Online Search, Navigation and Page Content, which reflect changing user interaction …
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Persuasive technology in tourism online experiences and implications on tourist buying behaviour
… A final outcome establishes tourist’s website reading patterns, emphasising the placement of call-to-actions within an F-shape region. This research contributes through a customised version of the PSD model applicable for tourism SMEs, delivers empirical evidence suggesting additions to the …
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Molecular phylogeny, phylogeography and population genetics of the red seaweed genus <i>Asparagopsis</i>
… occur worldwide and show disjunct distribution patterns. Such patterns may result from recent jump-dispersal or from fragmentation of once panglobally distributed species. First, a phylogeographic approach was deployed in order to delineate the taxonomic units in local scale and to assess if …
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An eye tracking study of sentence reading in aphasia: influences of frequency and context
Mild reading difficulties are a pervasive symptom in aphasia, but are little researched. Eye tracking research with neurologically healthy participants has demonstrated that reading is influenced by a number of information sources that are related to our experience with language. Two of these …
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Bilingual Reading Fluency and Prediction: Heritage Language versus Second Language
… presents the first comparative investigation of reading fluency and factors that affect it by examining eye movements in reading by Heritage Speakers (HSs) and L2 learners of Russian. The eye movements of bilingual participants are compared to two control groups, monolingual adults and …
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Mutter- und fremdsprachliche Leser im Kindes- und Jugendalter und der Stellenwert des Lesens in diesen Lebensabschnitten
… place, the goal is to show to which extent the reading behavioral patterns as well as the reading methods of children and the youth have changed and developed during the past few decades. In the second place, the focus of the study shifts to the educational situation in which German as a foreign …
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Beyond CTT and IRT: using an interactional measurement model to investigate the decision making process of EPT essay raters
… investigates raters’ scoring behavior and their reading comprehension as combined with the final essay score. Though the focus of this study is writing assessment, the current research methodology is applicable to the field of performance-based testing in general. The present framework considers …