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"Boring, Frustrating, Impossible": Tracing the Negative Affects of Reading from Interviews to Story Circles
Download2019-05-15
Fuller, Danielle; Rehberg Sedo, DeNel
How can you trace the negative affects of reading experiences? Reading studies research often relies on heroic, transformational and celebratory narratives about reading elicited from research participants but also co-produced by the researchers because of the methods employed. In this essay we...
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An Examination of Eye Movements, Reading Skills and the Impact of Seductive Details on Students’ Learning
DownloadFall 2019
This dissertation consists of three separate studies. The purpose of the first study was to examine whether junior high students’ eye movement patterns are sensitive to differences in reading skills and/or general developmental changes as well as whether junior high students’ eye movement...
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Anticipation during language processing: Investigating the use of sentence context during reading in young adults
Download2016-05-11
Johns, Alison, Wilson, Kristy, Kim, Esther, Cummine, Jacqueline
The N400 is an event-related potential (ERP) component that has been suggested to be associated with the processing of semantic information. Specifically, researchers have found that the N400 effect is prominent when words are incongruent in a given sentence context. Furthermore, the size of the...
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Spring 2010
Abstract The purpose of this research was to explore, through interviews, miscue and retrospective miscue analysis, and retellings of stories, the oral reading performance of three English as a second language (ESL) students and their perceptions of the reading process, their knowledge of the...
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Spring 2019
Reading impairments (acquired alexia) commonly co-occur in people with aphasia (PWA). The ultimate goal of reading treatment is to read connected text accurately and quickly. Traditional treatments of acquired alexia have typically targeted single word reading, which has seen little...
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Spring 2020
Although Planning, Attention, Simultaneous and Successive (PASS) processing theory of intelligence has been argued to offer an alternative look at intelligence and PASS processes – operationalized with the Cognitive Assessment System – have been used in several studies, it remains unclear how...