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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Word identification"”.
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Word Identification and Eye Movements in Reading Chinese: A Modeling Approach
… complicated cognitive processes such as word identification and eye movements in reading Chinese. This study has also set a new direction and established a new framework for reading research in Chinese.
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A comparison of the effects of reading interventions on the word identification and oral reading fluency of 5th grade students with learning disabilities
… TDI) and iPad-assisted instruction (IAI) on the word identification and oral reading fluency of elementary school students with reading learning disabilities (RLD), who have reading goals on their individual education plans (IEPs). Four 5th grade students with RLD participated in the study. An …
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Eye Movements and the Learning of Words
This research is a description of word learning early in the process of learning to read. Children's eye movements during the identification of familiar and unfamiliar words are examined in an attempt to further describe children's scanning of words, and to select from the various explanations of …
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An Investigation into How Word Learning Modality Influences Subsequent Word Processing During Sentence Reading
This dissertation executed a novel rare word learning paradigm to investigate whetherlearning words via different modalities (i.e., auditory vs. visual) influences subsequent word knowledge. The study was split across two days. On day one, adult participants learned the definitions or …
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The Effect of Age-related Declines in Inhibitory Control on Audiovisual Speech Intelligibility
… of communication yields significantly higher word recognition performance as compared to either sensory modality alone, constituting a general AV advantage for speech perception. Despite an overall AV advantage, older adults seem to receive less benefit from this bimodal presentation than do …
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The Impact of the Computer Program, Reader's Workshop, on Reading Skills of Sixth Grade Special Education Students
… whether the program is effective at teaching word identification, word attack, and passage comprehension. A sample of eight sixth grade students with disabilities were selected to use the software, with tests given both before and after use so that any progress could be measured. The results …
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Cognitive and Auditory Factors Underlying Auditory Spatial Attention in Younger and Older Adults
… of the target was uncertain. In all experiments, word identification was measured for target sentences presented with two competitor sentences. On each trial, the three sentences were presented with one from each of three spatially separated loudspeakers. A priori cues specified the location and …
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A Comparison of Full-Day and Half-Day English and French Immersion Kindergarten: Children's Outcomes and Experiences
… revealed significant differences in English word identification, with children from English full-day kindergarten (FDK) scoring significantly higher at the beginning of Grade 1 than children in either FI program, and English word decoding, with only children from half-day programs (FI and …
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Self-supervised text sentiment transfer with rationale predictions and pretrained transformers
… by a limited number of sentiment-specific words within the sentence, this problem can also be posed as a problem of identifying and altering sentiment-specific words as a means of transferring from one sentiment to another. In this dissertation we use a novel method of sentiment word …
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The generation effect and word learning: a test of the effect of the language experience approach versus the text approach in the acquisition of new reading vocabulary
… group generated a list of eight to be learned words. The treatment consisted of exposing the student to a given word three times per session for ten sessions, over a period of five days. The dependent variables consisted of word identification speed, word identification accuracy, and word …
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The possessive in Zulu
… unmarked possessive. Different approaches to word identification have been discussed. The implications of the two approaches to word identification for the possessive in Zulu, namely, the conjunctive5^ and the semi- X conjunctive approach, have been discussed. The conjunctivists indicate that …
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Foreign Language Comprehension: Understanding the Centrality Deficit
… having to devote more cognitive resources to L2 word identification and consequently having fewer resources remaining to form connections among the text's ideas that allow centrality to emerge. The centrality deficit was only evident among the readers who had a lower level of L2 proficiency …
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The role of illustrations in children's oral reading accuracy, strategies and comprehension at different developmental and progress levels : a psycholinguistic investigation
… to orthographic cues in the process 6f isolated word recognition. Conversely, considerable although inconclusive evidence suggests that illustrations may be facilitative as contextual information in the process of reading and comprehending continuous prose. Within a psycholinguistic model of the …
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The role of illustrations in children's oral reading accuracy, strategies and comprehension at different developmental and progress levels : a psycholinguistic investigation
… to orthographic cues in the process 6f isolated word recognition. Conversely, considerable although inconclusive evidence suggests that illustrations may be facilitative as contextual information in the process of reading and comprehending continuous prose. Within a psycholinguistic model of the …
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Typical and Atypical Acquisition of Mathematics, Reading, and Writing: Cognitive Profiles in Early Development
… and March 2020. The tests Number Sense, Letter-Word Identification, and Writing were used as proxies for measuring mathematics, reading, and writing, respectively. For assessing cognitive abilities, the indexes of Working Memory (WMI), Visual Spatial (VSI), Verbal Acquisition (VAI), Verbal …
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The impact of using Elkonin sound boxes for students who are at-risk for dyslexia
… include problems with decoding or single word reading, poor reading fluency, and poor spelling (IDA, 2018a). The use of Elkonin Sound Boxes (ESBs) is a specific instructional method used primarily with early elementary students; ESBs help students build phonemic awareness by segmenting …
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The effects on using ipads in teaching sight words to English Language Learners
… technology to teach high frequency Dolch sight words, in terms of identification and application, to beginner English language learners (ELLs), and (b) evaluate satisfaction and motivation among participants in the use of iPads in sight word acquisition. The participants consisted of two fourth …
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