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Examination of Cerebral Hemodynamics of School-Aged Children Who Do and Do Not Stutter During Reading: a Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Pilot Study
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This exploratory pilot study examined the reliability of using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to evaluate cerebral hemodynamic responses of oxygenated hemoglobin (HbO2), deoxygenated hemoglobin (HHb), hemoglobin difference (HbDiff) and total hemoglobin (tHb) in the left inferior...
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Examining Activation of Lexical and Semantic Representations Without Intention: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials
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Background. According to dual-route models of reading, there are two pathways with which words can be read: an orthographic-lexical pathway used to read familiar regular words and exception (EXC) words, and a grapheme-to-phoneme-conversion (GPC)-sublexical pathway used to read unfamiliar regular...
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Fall 2014
The objective of this study was to explore information and its function in fiction reading for leisure through the perceptions and experiences of adult readers. I used a phenomenographic approach to look for qualitative differences in experiences and understandings in order describe the...
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Holistic Linguistics: An in-depth analysis of six bilingual English-French children living in Quebec City
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The Problem: When it comes to assessing and intervening with bilingual populations, language interventionists face a difficult problem. Not only is there a lack of standardized tests for these populations, but even the use of the few that exist have limits about their conclusions. These limits...
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Fall 2013
Vocabulary plays an important role in students’ ability to understand academic content. For Francophone students in a minority setting, a poor vocabulary not only results in their difficulty at grasping the content, but it also impedes their ability to understand reading materials in core...
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Les facteurs qui inspirent la lecture chez les garçons en immersion française au deuxième cycle de l’élémentaire
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This action research explores the factors that inspire reading in a second language for a group of grade 5 boys in a French Immersion classroom. During this research, a grade 5 classroom participated in a reading workshop. This approach gave me insights on the multiple layers teachers must...
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Fall 2016
Background. Context use in sentence comprehension is fairly resistant to age-related cognitive decline; however, event-related potentials (ERPs) studies have shown age effects in neural activity associated with sentence comprehension, specifically when contextual information is manipulated. One...
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Spring 2018
Objective: Reading is a complex behaviour requiring the connectivity of numerous brain regions. Resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI) has recently been used to examine the differences in reading networks in skilled adult readers and skilled and impaired child readers. Such...
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Fall 2015
This dissertation presents research on second language (L2) incidental vocabulary acquisition through reading and listening. Data for this research were collected in the EFL context of Iran, from Iranian undergraduate students, at an intermediate level of EFL proficiency, who were majoring in...
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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...