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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Silent Reading"”.
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Morphological Segmentation During Silent Reading
… eye-movements were monitored while they silently read sentences where the monomorphemic members (guest; bale) of monomorphemic-polymorphemic (MP) pairs of heterographic homophones (guest-guessed) and of monomorphemic-monomorphemic (MM) pairs of heterographic homophones (bale-bail) were …
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Silent Reading: A Case of Sustained Silent Reading in a Western Cape Grade 5 Classroom
"Well-developed Reading and Viewing skills are central to successful learning across the curriculum" (Department of Basic Education, 2011: 10). Previous sociocultural research as well as the South African Department of Basic Education has shown the importance of reading- both in terms of …
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Adult ESL Oral Reading Fluency and Silent Reading Comprehension
… academic program revealed that their oral reading fluency had a significant, low-to-moderate correlation with scores on a measure of silent reading comprehension. The correlation was slightly stronger for measures of accuracy than speed, and strongest for miscue ratio. The correlation …
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Literature of remedial silent reading in senior high school and college.
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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The Impact of Prosodic Reading Instruction on Adolescents’ Silent Reading Comprehension
… has established a strong relationship between silent reading comprehension and prosodic reading fluency among young readers, but much remains unknown about this relationship among older readers (Breen, Kaswer, Van Dyke, Krivokapic, & Landi, 2016; Cypert & Petro, 2019). The goal of this study …
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A study of the relationships between oral comprehension and silent reading comprehension
… between the comprehension levels of a student's silent reading level to their oral comprehension level when a passage is read to them. It will also address the theory that reading is a visual symbol system superimposed on auditory language. Theorists state that reading is a symbol system twice …
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Auditory perceptual simulation during silent reading: effects on language processing and comprehension
Auditory perceptual simulation (APS) during silent reading refers to situations in which the reader actively simulates the voice of a character or other person depicted in a text. In three eye-tracking studies and one Event-related Potentials (ERP) study, APS effects were investigated as people …
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Effects of music backgrounds on silent reading test results of sixth grade students
… the effect that three backgrounds had on the silent reading achievement test results of sixth grade students. No music, soothing instrumental music, and stimulating instrumental music were used.
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A micro-experimental analysis of silent reading in small-group guided reading lessons
… hypothesis concerning the way silent reading in small-group lessons influences students' end-of-lesson performance. It was hypothesized that positive effects of silent reading may not be found solely in direct cognitive consequences for individual students but in the dynamics of …
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The effect of the length and structure of sentences upon the silent reading process
… of sentences affect the processes involved in silent reading is a problem which has received little attention in the fundamental investigations of reading. This study is an attempt to deal experimentally, by means of an analysis of photographic records of eye movements, with certain phases of …
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Oral Reading, Silent Reading, and Listening Comprehension: A Comparative Study for Above-Average and Below-Average Readers
By comparing listening comprehension to reading comprehension for above-average and below-average readers, one can come to some conclusions about where the problem resides for poor readers-whether it be lack of phonic skills or lack of general verbal competence. Because teachers need to know better …
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The Attitudes Toward Reading And Reading Achievement Of Seventh Grade Students In A Sustained Silent Reading Program
… many students develop negative attitudes toward reading as they advance through school. Because students report that they enjoy independent reading time, providing this time to students in middle school is thought to be beneficial. Additional research is needed to determine whether providing …
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The Effects of a Sustained Silent Reading Program on the Reading Attitudes and Habits of Second Grade Students
… was to investigate the effects of a Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) program on the reading attitudes and habits of second grade students. The subjects were two second grade classes from a suburban school in western New York. The control group of 25 students participated in a reading program …
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The Effects of Sustained Silent Reading and Sustained Silent Writing on the Reading Attitudes of Fourth Grade Students
… was to investigate the effects of sustained silent reading and sustained silent writing on the reading attitudes of fourth grade students. The sample consisted of twenty-eight fourth grade students in a self-contained general classroom in a suburban community. Fourteen students made up the …
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The Effects of Weekly Sustained Silent Reading Time on Recreational Reading Habist and Attitudes ina 9th Grade English Class
<p>Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) has been around in various forms for over forty years. While this subject has received much study in the elementary schools, the influence of SSR on typical, non-at-risk high school students reading habits appears to be lacking. The purpose of this study is to …
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The effect of daily "sustained silent reading" in improving fluency, word recognition, and reading comprehension skills for mild cognitive impaired students
… study evaluated the effectiveness of Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) when used daily with Mild Cognitive Impaired students. The purpose of the study was to measure strengths, deficits, and gains in fluency, word recognition, and reading comprehension abilities through pre and post-test …
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Syntactic and Referential Ambiguity Resolution Under Cue Competition in Silent Reading: Effects of Implicit Prosodic Cues, L1-L2 and Individual Differences
… under conditions of cue competition in silent reading; this is achieved by investigating the influence of formal cues commonly found in poetry, namely rhyme, meter and lineation. Whereas previous studies have examined competition between structural preferences (e.g. syntax-based parsing …
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