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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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The effect of a go/no-go naming task on fMRI BOLD activation in the ventral visual processing stream
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Background: The go/no-go naming behavioural paradigm has furthered our understanding of basic reading processes, however, its neural representations remain largely unknown. Pilot data using this task (with nonwords) produced fMRI ventral stream activation for regular and exception words. This...
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Fall 2014
When engaged in a reading comprehension task, the reliance upon a verbal or visuospatial strategy is associated with different outcomes (Johnson-Glenberg, 2000). More specifically, individuals who adopt a verbal strategy tend to demonstrate enhanced recall of information that is explicitly stated...
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Spring 2012
Psycholinguistics has traditionally been defined as the study of how we process units of language such as letters, words and sentences. But what about other units? This dissertation concerns itself with short lexical sequences called n- grams, longer than words but shorter than most sentences....
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The Spread of Britishness: Coffee Houses, Circulating Libraries, and the Formation of Gender in the Atlantic World, 1750-1820
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During the second half of the eighteenth century, Britain saw a rapid growth of its printing industry and an expansion of both its national and international book trade. One of the most important export markets was the British Atlantic. This large and highly diverse region was home to some of the...
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Fall 2016
Recent research by Neilsen reports that adult readers purchase 80% of all young adult novels sold, even though young adult literature is a category ostensibly targeted towards teenage readers (Gilmore). More than ever before, young adult (YA) literature is at the center of some of the most...
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Spring 2013
Reading and listening are two skills used in language processing. Many studies have investigated reading ability but fewer have looked at listening skills and no studies to date have studied the association between the two. This dissertation looks at the relationship between reading skill and...