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Laurie E. Cutting April Materek Carolyn A. S. Cole Terry M. Levine E. Mark Mahone 《Annals of dyslexia》2009,59(1):34-54
Reading disability (RD) typically consists of deficits in word reading accuracy and/or reading comprehension. While it is
well known that word reading accuracy deficits lead to comprehension deficits (general reading disability, GRD), less is understood
about neuropsychological profiles of children who exhibit adequate word reading accuracy but nevertheless develop specific
reading comprehension deficits (S-RCD). Establishing the underlying neuropsychological processes associated with different
RD types is essential for ultimately understanding core neurobiological bases of reading comprehension. To this end, the present
study investigated isolated and contextual word fluency, oral language, and executive function on reading comprehension performance
in 56 9- to 14-year-old children [21 typically developing (TD), 18 GRD, and 17 S-RCD]. Results indicated that TD and S-RCD
participants read isolated words at a faster rate than participants with GRD; however, both RD groups had contextual word
fluency and oral language weaknesses. Additionally, S-RCD participants showed prominent weaknesses in executive function.
Implications for understanding the neuropsychological bases for reading comprehension are discussed.
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Laurie E. CuttingEmail: |
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Suzanne E. Welcome Christine Chiarello Laura K. Halderman Christiana M. Leonard 《Reading and writing》2009,22(3):353-371
Despite an extensive literature linking individual differences in phonological processing to reading ability, some adults
show normal text comprehension abilities despite poor pseudoword reading (Jackson & Doellinger (2002). Journal of Educational Psychology, 94, 64–78). This study was undertaken to investigate differences between these individuals, termed resilient readers, and proficient
readers in performance and degree of lateralization on a variety of single word processing tasks. Participants completed seven
divided visual field tasks investigating various aspects of reading. Resilient readers performed less accurately on basic
word recognition tasks, but not on the tasks involving semantic access. Resilient readers did not differ from proficient readers
on reaction time or lateralization on any of the experimental tasks. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that
skilled phonological decoding is not necessary for reading for meaning in a college population. It is proposed that higher-level
semantic information and general world knowledge may allow some readers to compensate for deficiencies in lower-level word
recognition processes.
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Suzanne E. WelcomeEmail: |
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This study examined the relationships among reading comprehension, reading self-concept, and home literacy environment (HLE)
in a sample (n = 67) of fourth grade children enrolled in an urban school district. Children’s reading comprehension, word reading, and
verbal ability were assessed using standardized measures. Reading self-concept was assessed with a child-administered survey
that is comprised of three subscales (i.e., competence in reading, perception of ease with reading, attitude towards reading).
Information on child and family literacy practices was collected via a questionnaire administered to parents of participating
children. Bivariate correlations and multiple regression analyses demonstrated that all three reading self-concept subscales
were positively related to reading comprehension after controlling for verbal ability and word reading skills, and aspects
of HLE were positively related to aspects of reading self-concept. The findings support the inclusion of psychosocial and
family literacy measures in future studies designed to investigate the process of reading comprehension for children beyond
the primary grades.
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Nonie K. LesauxEmail: |
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This study examined the relationship between morphological awareness and reading comprehension in English among Spanish-speaking
English language learners (ELLs) followed from fourth through fifth grade. Students’ ability to decompose derived words while
reading was assessed using an experimental task. Multiple regression analyses were used to investigate the contribution of
performance on this task to reading comprehension above and beyond word reading skills, phonological awareness, and breadth
of vocabulary knowledge. The relationship between morphological awareness and reading comprehension was found to strengthen
between fourth and fifth grade, and in fifth grade, morphological awareness was found to be a significant predictor of reading
comprehension. The findings were robust across two measures of reading comprehension and two methods of scoring the experimental
task of morphological awareness, and thus support the inclusion of derivational morphology in a model of the English reading
comprehension of Spanish-speaking ELLs.
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Michael J. KiefferEmail: |
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Young-Suk Kim 《Reading and writing》2009,22(1):57-84
Previous studies with English-speaking families in the North American context demonstrated that home literacy practices have
positive influences on children’s literacy acquisition. The present study expands previous studies by examining how home literacy
practices are related to growth trajectories of emergent literacy skills (i.e., vocabulary, letter-name knowledge, and phonological awareness) and conventional literacy
skills (i.e., word reading, pseudoword reading, and spelling), and by using data from Korean children and families (N = 192). The study revealed two dimensions of home literacy practices, home reading and parent teaching. Frequent reading
at home was positively associated with children’s emergent literacy skills as well as conventional literacy skills in Korean.
However, children whose parents reported more frequent teaching tended to have low scores in their phonological awareness,
vocabulary, word reading and pseudoword reading after accounting for home reading. These results suggest a bidirectional relationship
between home literacy practices, parent teaching in particular, and children’s literacy skills such that parents adjust their
teaching in response to their child’s literacy acquisition. Furthermore, cultural variation in views on parent teaching may
explain these results.
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Young-Suk KimEmail: |
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Adel Safty 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》1991,37(4):473-488
French immersion programs are rapidly becoming an integral part of the Canadian education system. Its educational and linguistic achievements have been the subject of an abundant literature that continues to grow. The popularity of the program has helped it expand at a phenomenal rate. From one school and a handful of students in the experimental classes 25 years ago, there are now more than 17,000 schools offering French immersion instruction to close to 250,000 students in all major Canadian cities.The major theoretical foundations on which French immersion was explicitly and sometimes implicitly based may be summarized as follows:
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| Early exposure to a second language is better than late exposure. |
| A second language can be learned effectively through the recreation at school of a natural imitative environment which resembles that in which the child learns his first language. |
| There may be interferences between English and the second language being learned, but the similarities between the two languages are much more significant in terms of linguistic and cognitive development than the differences. |
| The language is more used as a vehicle for teaching subject matters than it is studied as a subject. |
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Valerie Marciarille LeVasseur Paul Macaruso Donald Shankweiler 《Reading and writing》2008,21(3):205-230
On the ground that reading fluency entails appropriate phrasing or prosody as well as facile word recognition, we investigated
the effectiveness of text-based and word-based repeated readings procedures for promoting fluency of reading aloud and comprehension
in second-grade children. Repeated readings of text printed with spaces between phrases and ends of lines at clause boundaries
(phrase-cued text), repeated readings of text printed with conventional layout (standard text), and repeated readings of lists
of difficult words from text were compared. Computer-based, guided repeated reading training intervened between a pretest
and post-test reading of text. Each training condition led to significant benefits on one or more of the experimental measures
obtained from reading aloud. Repeated readings with text resulted in greater gains in fluency than repeated readings with
word lists. Reading with natural prosody was most strongly facilitated by repeated readings of phrase-cued text, which provided
visible support for sentence structure.
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Valerie Marciarille LeVasseurEmail: |
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Outcomes of two training programs aimed at improving reading speed for 39 German-speaking poor readers in grades 2 and 4 were
evaluated. During a 6-week training period, a specific target for children in a computer group was to improve reading of word-initial consonant clusters by practice in associating an orthographic unit with a corresponding
phonological unit. Children in a paired reading group read books with an adult tutor. The results showed that, in reading words in which the computer-trained sublexical items
were included, both groups exhibited similar improvement. A post hoc analysis suggested that computer training was associated
with better reading skills with respect to the trained sublexical items; however, this improvement did not show large generalization
effects to the words with the sublexical items. The paired reading group showed a more rapid gain in global word reading fluency
than the computer group. Neither of the groups improved their pseudoword reading.
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Sini Huemer (née Hintikka)Email: |
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The aim of the study was to elucidate the nature and efficiency of the strategies that readers with phonological dyslexia
use for temporary retention of written words in Working Memory (WM). Data was gathered through a paradigm whereby participants
had to identify serially presented written (target) words from within larger word pools according to their presentation order,
with word pools containing code-specific distracter (CSD) words and non-code-specific distracter (NCSD) words. Analyses focused
on three aspects of performance: (1) false recognition of target words; (2) correct recognition of target words; and (3) retention
of word presentation order. Participants were readers with diagnosed phonological dyslexia (n = 20, mean grade level = 9.05 [0.89]) and a control group of regular readers (n = 25, mean grade level = 9.00 [0.76]). Results provide direct evidence that the dyslexic readers and the regular readers
used essentially different memory coding strategies for the temporary retention of written words, with the former predominantly
relying on a visual strategy and the latter on a phonological strategy. Findings further pinpointed a notably impoverished
ability of the dyslexic readers to retain word presentation order. The implication of these findings is discussed in relation
to theories predicting the acquisition and mastery of reading.
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Paul MillerEmail: |
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Tami Katzir YoungSuk Kim Maryanne Wolf Becky Kennedy Maureen Lovett Robin Morris 《Reading and writing》2006,19(8):845-872
The role of spelling recognition was examined in word reading skills and reading comprehension for dyslexic and nondyslexic children. Dyslexic and nondyslexic children were matched on their raw word reading proficiency. Relationships between spelling recognition and the following were examined for both groups of children: verbal ability, working memory, phonological measures, rapid naming, word reading, and reading comprehension. Children’s performance in spelling recognition was significantly associated with their skills in word reading and reading comprehension regardless of their reading disability status. Furthermore, spelling recognition contributed significant variance to reading comprehension for both dyslexic and nondyslexic children after the effects of phonological awareness, rapid naming, and word reading proficiency had been accounted for. The results support the role of spelling recognition in reading development for both groups of children and they are discussed using a componential reading fluency framework. 相似文献
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Chiara Valeria Marinelli Paola Angelelli Alessandra Notarnicola Claudio Luzzatti 《Reading and writing》2009,22(3):333-351
The study uses an orthographic judgment task to evaluate the efficiency of the lexical reading route in Italian dyslexic children.
It has been suggested that Italian dyslexic children rely prevalently on the sub-word-level routine for reading. However,
it is not easy to test the lexical reading route in Italian directly because of the lack of critical items (irregular words),
so visual lexical decision tasks and the comprehension/detection of pseudo-homophones are often used. While the former may
also be solved on the basis of visual familiarity or phonological re-codification, the latter also involves conceptual and
syntactic skills. Eleven dyslexic children participated in the study, performing an orthographic judgment task on stimuli
with two phonologically plausible spellings, of which only one was orthographically correct. Their performance was compared
with those of 11 proficient readers. The dyslexic children showed selective impairment in detecting phonologically plausible
errors, but their performance was normal when required to judge errors inserted in words with regular orthography, i.e., devoid
of orthographic ambiguity, and for which a sub-word-level reading procedure is sufficient to guarantee a good performance.
Overall, data are coherent with a diagnosis of surface dyslexia, with most children showing defective orthographic lexical
processing.
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Paola AngelelliEmail: |
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David Winograd 《TechTrends》2002,46(5):53-57
Moderating computer conferences is both is challenging and stimulating. Knowledge of the dynamics of preparing an asynchronous conference and how the functions of moderators differ at different stages of a conference will help to make the process run smoothly and enjoyably. A few concepts to keep in mind are:
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– | • Technical problems are inevitable |
– | • A conference size of 10 - 15 students is optimal |
– | • Welcome messages are critical and should be carefully crafted |
– | • Use appropriate conferencing spaces for different discourses |
– | • Be responsive and clear |
– | • Be on the lookout for small problems and solve them promptly before they grow into larger problems. |
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Young-Suk Kim 《Reading and writing》2009,22(7):843-861
This study examined (1) the potential influence of oral language characteristics of two languages that bilingual children
acquire on their PA and (2) the relationship of PA in L1 with PA and literacy skills in L2, using data from Korean–English
bilingual children. Thirty three Korean–English bilingual children, composed of two subsamples from two different locations/bilingual
programs, participated in the study. The findings showed that the sample of bilingual children from two bilingual programs
differed in their mean performances on intrasyllabic phonological awareness in Korean (i.e., rime awareness and body awareness).
Furthermore, children’s Korean rime awareness, but not body awareness, was positively related to their phonological awareness
and literacy skills in English. Finally, these children’s phonological awareness in Korean made a positive contribution to
English decoding skills even after controlling for their English sight word reading skills. The results are discussed in light
of interlingual influence on bilingual children’s phonological awareness.
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Young-Suk KimEmail: |
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Yavuz Akbulut 《Instructional Science》2007,35(6):499-517
The study investigates immediate and delayed effects of different hypermedia glosses on incidental vocabulary learning and
reading comprehension of advanced foreign language learners. Sixty-nine freshman TEFL students studying at a Turkish university
were randomly assigned to three types of annotations: (a) definitions of words, (b) definitions coupled with associated pictures,
and (c) definitions coupled with associated short videos. Subjects were asked to read an annotated text with the intention
of comprehension. The data were collected through a vocabulary pre-test, a vocabulary post-test, a delayed vocabulary test
as well as a reading comprehension test. In order to measure incidental vocabulary learning, subjects were not told that they
were going to be given vocabulary tests. Results showed that the groups that had access to definitions along with both types
of visuals had significantly higher vocabulary scores on both immediate and delayed post-tests than the definition only group.
However, no differences were observed on the reading comprehension test. Finally, the qualitative data revealed that hypermedia
reading had positive impact on participants’ attitudes towards foreign language reading and vocabulary learning.
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Yavuz AkbulutEmail: |
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We report an eye-movement study that demonstrates differences in regularity effects between adult developmental dyslexic and
control non-impaired readers, in contrast to findings from a large number of word recognition studies (see G. Brown, 1997). For low frequency words, controls showed an advantage for Regular items, in which grapheme-to-phoneme strategies could
be employed, compared with Irregular Consistent and Inconsistent items, in which rime comparisons or whole word recognition
strategies would be advantageous. We propose that in sentential contexts, dyslexic readers do not generate sufficient phonological
cues in the parafovea in order to demonstrate the regularity effects typical of unimpaired readers (e.g., S. Sereno & K. Rayner,
2000). These findings suggest that phonological strategies are sensitive to task demands, and underline the impact of methodology
on the conclusions that are drawn about dyslexic reading ability.
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Manon Wyn JonesEmail: |
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This study compared how lexical quality (vocabulary and decoding) and executive control (working memory and inhibition) predict reading comprehension directly as well as indirectly, via syntactic integration, in monolingual and bilingual fourth grade children. The participants were 76 monolingual and 102 bilingual children (mean age 10 years, SD = 5 months) learning to read Dutch in the Netherlands. Bilingual children showed lower Dutch vocabulary, syntactic integration and reading comprehension skills, but better decoding skills than their monolingual peers. There were no differences in working memory or inhibition. Multigroup path analysis showed relatively invariant connections between predictors and reading comprehension for monolingual and bilingual readers. For both groups, there was a direct effect of lexical quality on reading comprehension. In addition, lexical quality and executive control indirectly influenced reading comprehension via syntactic integration. The groups differed in that inhibition more strongly predicted syntactic integration for bilingual than for monolingual children. For a subgroup of bilingual children, for whom home language vocabulary data were available (n = 56), there was an additional positive effect of home language vocabulary on second language reading comprehension. Together, the results suggest that similar processes underlie reading comprehension in first and second language readers, but that syntactic integration requires more executive control in second language reading. Moreover, bilingual readers additionally benefit from first language vocabulary to arrive at second language reading comprehension. 相似文献
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Reading,syntactic, and working memory skills of bilingual Portuguese-English Canadian children 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
The purpose of the study was to examine the nature of language, memory, and reading skills of bilingual students and to determine the relationship between reading problems in English and reading problems in Portuguese. The study assessed the reading, language, and memory skills of 37 bilingual Portuguese-Canadian children, aged 9–12 years. English was their main instructional language and Portuguese was the language spoken at home. All children attended a Heritage Language Program at school where they were taught to read and write Portuguese. The children were administered word and pseudoword reading, language, and working memory tasks in English and Portuguese. The majority of the children (67%) showed at least average proficiency in both languages. The children who had low reading scores in English also had significantly lower scores on the Portuguese tasks. There was a significant relationship between the acquisition of word and pseudoword reading, working memory, and syntactic awareness skills in the two languages. The Portuguese-Canadian children who were normally achieving readers did not differ from a comparison group of monolingual English speaking normally achieving readers except that the bilingual children had significantly lower scores on the English syntactic awareness task. The bilingual reading disabled children had similar scores to the monolingual reading disabled children on word reading and working memory but lower scores on the syntactic awareness task. However, the bilingual reading disabled children had significantlyhigher scores than the monolingual English speaking reading disabled children on the English pseudoword reading test and the English spelling task, perhaps reflecting a positive transfer from the more regular grapheme phoneme conversion rules of Portuguese. In this case, bilingualism does not appear to have negative consequences for the development of reading skills. In both English and Portuguese, reading difficulties appear to be strongly related to deficits in phonological processing. 相似文献
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Sarah P. McGeown Rhona S. Johnston Emma Medford 《Learning and individual differences》2012,22(3):360-364
This study examined the cognitive skills associated with early reading development when children were taught by different types of instruction. Seventy-nine children (mean age at pre-test 4;10 (.22 S.D.) and post-test 5;03 (.21 S.D.)) were taught to read either by an eclectic approach which included sight-word learning, guessing from context and analytic phonics, or by a synthetic phonics approach, where children were taught solely to sound and blend letters to read unfamiliar words. The results illustrated differences in the skills supporting children's word reading based on their method of reading instruction. For the eclectic group, pre-test letter knowledge, vocabulary and rhyming skills predicted later reading ability, whereas for the synthetic phonics group, letter knowledge, phonemic awareness and memory span predicted later reading skill. The results suggest that children will draw upon different cognitive skills when reading if they are taught to use different word recognition strategies. 相似文献
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Susan Brady Margie Gillis Tara Smith MaryEllen Lavalette Linda Liss-Bronstein Evelyn Lowe Wendy North Evelyn Russo T. Diane Wilder 《Reading and writing》2009,22(4):425-455
The study examined the efficacy of an intensive form of professional development (PD) for building the knowledge of first-grade
teachers in the areas of phonological awareness and phonics. The PD featured frequent in-class support from highly knowledgeable
mentors for one school year, in addition to an introductory two-day summer institute and monthly workshops. Pre- and post-assessment
of participants on a Teacher Knowledge Survey (TKS) indicated weak knowledge of phonological awareness and phonics concepts
prior to PD and large, significant gains in each area by year-end. In addition, to investigate factors potentially associated
with teachers’ responses to training, a Teacher Attitude Survey (TAS) was administered before and after the PD. The TAS measured
teachers’ attitudes regarding PD, external and internal motivation to participate, intentions to actively engage in learning
and implementing new instructional methods, sense of self-efficacy as reading instructors, and premises about reading instruction
(e.g., about whole language). Attitudes on a subset of these factors, teachers’ initial knowledge scores on the TKS, and years
of teaching experience (estimated by age) accounted for significant portions of the variance in performance on the TKS after
training.
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Susan BradyEmail: |
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The purpose of this study was to determine the components of working memory (WM) that underlie less skilled readers' comprehension and word recognition difficulties. Performance of 3 less skilled reading subgroups---children with reading disabilities (RD) in both word recognition and comprehension; children with comprehension deficits only; and children with low verbal IQ, word recognition, and comprehension (poor readers)--was compared to that of skilled readers on WM, short-term memory (STM), processing speed, executive, and phonological processing measures. Ability group comparisons showed that (a) skilled readers outperformed all less skilled readers on measures of WM, updating, and processing speed; (b) children with comprehension deficits only outperformed children with RD on measures of WM, STM, phonological processing, and processing speed; and (c) children with RD outperformed poor readers on WM and phonological processing measures. A hierarchical regression analysis showed that (a) subgroup differences on WM tasks among less skilled readers were moderated by a storage system not specific to phonological skills, and (b) STM and updating contributed significant variance to WM beyond what was contributed by reading group classification. The latter finding suggested that some differences in storage and executive processing emerged between skilled and less skilled readers that were not specific to reading. 相似文献