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- 3Reading--Remedial teaching
- 2Reading difficulties
- 2Reading disability
- 2Recollection (Psychology)
- 2University students
- 2Cheng, Pui-wan
- 1Ally, Mohamed.
- 1Bond, Jeanette Olivine
- 1Brailsford, Anne.
- 1Gaboury, Laurie A
- 1Haddad, Walid Georges.
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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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Examining Resilience among University Students with Reading Difficulties Using Internal and External Protective Factors
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This dissertation consists of three papers investigating the impact of intrapersonal and interpersonal factors on life satisfaction and academic achievement of adults with reading difficulty (RD). Participants were university students or recent graduates. The first paper examines the impact of...
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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...