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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"skilled readers"”.
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Enhancing memory access for less-skilled readers
<p>Ericcson and Kintch (1995) suggested that less-skilled readers often have an impoverished representation of text. The results of five experiments demonstrated that the addition of causality enhanced the text representation of less-skilled readers. Experiments 1-3 showed that the addition of …
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FIRST GRADERS AS SENSITIVE SOCIAL PARTNERS AND SKILLED READERS
This mixed methods dissertation is guided by a sociocultural framework and a pragmatist stance to contribute to early literacy scholarship about minority children. In particular, I explore the relationship between low socioeconomic status Puerto Rican children’s reading experience and their social …
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Design, development, and formative evaluation of DB-notebook : a prototype computer-based tool to support less skilled readers
… of a prototype intended to support less skilled adult readers through a reading task are described. Less skilled readers are defined as students who have difficulty understanding school-assigned reading material because they lack metacognitive strategies. The prototype, called DB-notebook …
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Comprehension of protagonists' goals and intentions: The dynamic relation between reading skill, text characteristics, and reading strategies
… that pose the greatest challenges to struggling readers. Recent research has explored basic skills (e.g., working memory capacity, suppression mechanisms, domain knowledge, and reading strategies) that have been shown to be essential for reading. To date it is unclear which of these factors has …
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Morphological Sensitivity: A Hierarchical Analysis of Student and Word Factors
… there is still some disagreement as to whether skilled readers are more sensitive to morphological information while reading than their less skilled peers. This study examines whether qualities of words interact with qualities of students (n = 273) in a way that explains the disagreement between …
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The effects of word characteristics on children's reading
… highly significant word characteristic for less skilled readers. There was an age of acquisition effect which was inversely correlated with reading ability. Probabilistic measures of orthographic regularity (such as Initial Bigram Frequency and Versatility and First Order approximation to …
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The influence of individual differences on reading in readers of consistent compared to inconsistent orthographies
… differences in naming (reading aloud) processes. Readers themselves differ from each other in terms of relevant task performance, such as nonword decoding ability, vocabulary knowledge, spelling ability and reading experience. Such tasks tap into individual differences which have also been shown …
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Reading Ability and Perception
<p>Skilled reading can be partly understood as a set- of interrelated component processes (Perfetti & Lesgold, 1979). The efficiency with which any one of these component pro cesses operates could limit or improve the efficient opera tion of the other component processes. However, there is some …
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Evaluating Context In Vocabulary Acquisition In Reading
… 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 informative context rereading upon …
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Using eye tracking to examine a single word copying paradigm
… for encoding and production, even for skilled readers. Findings guided development of a theoretical framework for the copying process.
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The time course of sentence interpretation
… little difference in the processing styles of skilled and less-skilled readers when reading implausible material. The thesis concludes with suggestions for future work to further elucidate the time course of syntactic vs. heuristic interpretation.
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Understanding dyslexia by measuring eye-movements during reading.
… Angele, & Rayner, 2012). Whilst dyslexic readers have been found to display disruption in oculomotor control relative to skilled readers (Kirkby, Webster, Blythe, & Liversedge, 2008), there is a lack of research examining dyslexic parafoveal processing during reading. The experiments …
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Eye movements and processing of semantic information in the parafovea during reading
… processes to high-level cognition. Reading of skilled readers proceeds highly automatic, but is a complex phenomenon of interacting subprocesses at the same time. The study of eye movements during reading offers the possibility to investigate cognition via behavioral measures during the …