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The Comparative Effects of Traditional, Vocabulary, and Grammar Instruction on the Reading Comprehension and Fluency of High School English Language Learners
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To meet the academic demands of high school content courses such as science, English language learners (ELL) require more exposure to academic language than they currently receive (Wong Fillmore, 2014). Although vocabulary is a key source of difficulty for students’ comprehension of science texts...
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Spring 2017
The following dissertation includes three studies investigating reading comprehension and reading rate in university students. The first study focused on measuring adult reading comprehension more effectively and efficiently by testing whether brief versions of standardized reading comprehension...
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Oral Language Predictors of Reading Comprehension among Elementary School Children: Does Developmental Language Impairment Make a Difference?
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Research comparing reading comprehension tests has consistently found that these tests, all designed to measure the construct of reading comprehension, tap various and frequently different component skills. A number of studies have examined the relationship of oral language skills to reading...
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2013-06-27
Coutts, Brittany, Cartmell, Melissa, Mitchell, Megan
Traditionally, research on reading comprehension has relied on offline measures such as answering questions after reading a passage. However, for individuals with aphasia (an acquired neurological language impairment), working memory impairments may confound such measures. In contrast,...
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A meta-analysis on the reading comprehension skills of individuals with autism spectrum disorders
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Brown, Heather, Oram-Cardy, Janis, Johnson, Andrew
This meta-analysis examined 36 studies comparing autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and control groups in reading comprehension. Three moderators (semantic knowledge, decoding skill, PIQ) and two text types (high vs. low social knowledge) were examined as predictors of reading comprehension in ASD....
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Validity of Simple View of Reading for Predicting Reading Comprehension in Children with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure (PAE) and those with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)
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This study examined the validity of Gough and Tunmer’s (1986) Simple View of Reading (SVR) model for predicting reading comprehension in children identified as having prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE; n = 36) and those having Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD; n = 45). In addition to decoding...