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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"reading development"”.
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An Evaluation of English 101, Reading Development, At Evangel College
… of this study was to evaluate Evangel College's reading development course in terms of improvement of grades and retention of students. The following questions, from which the hypotheses were formulated, were posed. 1. Will the semester grade point averages (GPA) of students enrolled in English …
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Predicting Chinese Children's Reading Development From Kindergarten to Second Grade
… to a better understanding of how normal Chinese reading acquisition develops and what cognitive skills underpin this development. The long-term goals are to improve methods for reading instruction for all children and to enable the early identification and treatment of at-risk children.
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Syntactic awareness and reading development: A training study with young children
… the relationship between syntactic awareness and reading, but few training studies have been reported. In the present study, a 1 a-week training study employing an experimental design, was conducted with 34 Year 1 and 38 Year 2 children to determine whether training in syntactic awareness …
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Comparison of Reading Development Across Socioeconomic Status in the United States
… socioeconomic status (SES) predicts better child reading outcomes, but little work has been done to unpack this finding. The main overall question addressed by this project was whether cognitive models of the two main reading outcomes, single word reading (SWR) and reading comprehension (RC), …
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Reading Development: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Individuals with High Functioning Autism
Reading expands learning opportunities for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) by improving their communication and functional skills, and, in the long run, improving their quality of life. Research is needed to gain a better understanding of how individuals with autism experience their …
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Enhancing Instruction in a Changing World: Kindergarten Educators Implementing Technology to Support Student Reading Development
… ways to help Kindergarten educators enhance reading instruction with technology-infused lessons. This research drew on Dewey’s theory of progressivism, as well as Mishra and Koehler’s Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) conceptual model. The study employed qualitative methods …
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International elementary schools and interrupted students : a study of curriculum, pedagogically-engaged time and reading development
… is concerned with the question of how reading development is influenced by the increase of pedagogically-engaged time amongst interrupted students within a particular curriculum. The study arose from observations that students of an interrupted educational background seemed to be …
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The development and evaluation of assessment tools and a model of reading development for supporting pupils within the Scottish policy context of closing the attainment gap in reading
… Scottish educational psychologists’ professional development programme, illustrating how particular instructional practices and approaches support the aims and objectives of the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence, by analysing how they exemplify models of learning compatible with the CfE …
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Development of Morphological Awareness in Chinese and English
… correlation between morphological awareness and reading proficiency was higher among Taiwanese students than American students, morphological awareness appears to be more important for Chinese-speaking children's reading development than English-speaking children's reading development.
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The influence of music in the development of reading in foundation phase learners: a socio-cultural case study of a South African primary school
… nineteen years, the researcher has noted the reading abilities of the learners drop over the years. This could be due to various factors such as large class sizes, changes in curriculum, teacher inadequacy and parents’ lack of involvement due to work commitments. It is for this reason that it …
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Parental Literacy Experiences: Relation to a Child's Reading Performance Across Cultures
… significant relationships between parents’ past reading experiences and involvement in children’s literacy at home and how this could be associated with their children’s reading outcomes and motivation. The current study examined parental self- reported literacy experiences, home literacy …
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SHARE: A Stochastic, Hierarchical Architecture for Reading Eye -Movement
… enough to characterize both beginning and fluent reading, which is particularly attractive for the study of reading development. Its ability to capture eye-movement patterns also opens a wide range of possibilities for real-world applications of the eye-movement technology.
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Capturing reading strategies in young children
Traditional models of children’s reading, based on fixed invariant stages, have proved less than adequate in explaining the flexibility in which children approach the task of learning to read. One way to examine emergent reading is to focus on the child’s strategy use as a discrete measure of early …
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Developing the reading comprehension skills of English second language primary school teacher trainees at an Afrikaans-medium college of education
… (EL2) are inadequately equipped to teach reading comprehension skills. They test their pupils on literal, at the expense of inferential, reading skills. This investigation therefore sought to test the literal and inferential reading comprehension skills of a group of Afrikaans-speaking EL2 …
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An examination of the influence of cognitive, motivational, and behavioural factors on children's reading skill and development
… of the factors influencing children’s reading skill and reading development. In particular, the experimental studies were designed to investigate the influence of cognitive skills, motivational factors, and behavioural factors on children’s reading attainment. The results illustrate …
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The Development of Taiwanese Children's Ability to Infer Orthographic Information From Semantic and Phonological Information
… adopt metalinguistic principles to help their reading and writing development in Chinese, a non-alphabetic language. The relationship between the acquisition of phoneme-grapheme correspondence and reading ability has been well-established for alphabetic orthographies. In Chinese, characters are …
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Low-achieving beginning readers: Early identification, and structural modeling of remedial reading effects
… of first-grade and second-grade remedial reading students and the effects of remedial reading in early elementary grades were respectively investigated in three studies. These three studies used the database established by Meyer, Wardrop, and Hastings (1989) for a longitudinal study on …
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The Use of Soundabet to Increase Phonemic Awareness
… awareness is an essential stepping stone in the reading development of primary grade students. Dan Gurney created a supplemental phonics program called Soundabet, which uses instructional songs. The purpose of this study is to determine if the use of Soundabet can increase students' ability to …
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Impaired learning of phonetic consistency and generalized neural adaptation deficits in dyslexia
Developmental dyslexia is a neurological condition that specifically impairs the development of expert reading ability. Phonological processing deficits -- impaired representation of, or access to, the abstract units of spoken language -- have been implicated as the principal source of reading …
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The Relationship Between English Language Learners' Phonemic Awareness and Decoding Skills
… and decoding are strongly related during early reading development (Ehri, Nunes, Willows, Schuster, Yaghoub-Zadeh, & Shanahan, 2001). This study was designed to discover if ELLs and non-ELLs show similar relationships between these two variables. There were 11 non-ELLs and 23 ELLs from a rural …
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