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An Exploration of the Use of Musical Activities to Promote Foundational Literacy Competencies for Children Aged 3–5 Years

The Reading Teacher, Volume 80, Issue 1, July/August 2026.
ABSTRACT Research into the process of becoming literate mainly focuses on the teaching of the alphabetic principle as a starting point upon school entry. However, experiences, knowledge, and skills prior to this point may determine future success.
Maria Kay
wiley   +1 more source

Labelling, Defining and Classifying the Active Ingredients in Oral Language Interventions for Children With or at Risk of Developmental Language Disorder: A Systematic Review and Qualitative Synthesis

International Journal of Language &Communication Disorders, Volume 61, Issue 4, July/August 2026.
ABSTRACT Background In recent years, there has been an increase in studies reporting on effective child language interventions for people with or at risk for (Developmental) Language Disorder ((D)LD). However, the translation of this evidence into practice has been impeded by under‐specified intervention reporting, specifically on what the active ...
Pauline Frizelle, Doris Murphy, Lenora Murphy, Leonard Fletcher, Norma O'Leary, Norma Kerrisk, Imogen Lyons, Ana Buckley, Patricia Eadie, Susan Ebbels, Melanie Ferk‐Dornstauder, Johanna Jessenitschnig, Silke Fricke, Maja Kelic, Sari Kunnari, Suze Leitão, Cristina McKean, Karla McGregor, Natalie Munro, Carol‐Anne Murphy, Amanda Owen Van Horne   +20 more
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Compreensão da leitura: análise do funcionamento diferencial dos itens de um Teste de Cloze Reading comprehension: differential item functioning analysis of a Cloze Test

Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 2012
Este estudo teve por objetivos investigar o ajuste de um Teste de Cloze ao modelo Rasch e avaliar a dificuldade na resposta ao item em razão do gênero das pessoas (DIF).
Katya Luciane Oliveira, Acácia A. Aparecida Angeli dos Santos, Evely Boruchovitch, Fabian Javier Marín Rueda   +3 more
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Score Variation in Multiple-Choice Tests of Grammar: On the Effect of Gender and Stem Type [PDF]

Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2014
This paper examines the effect of gender and type of stem on Iranian test takers’ performance on the grammar section of a nation-wide language proficiency test. In so doing, the scores of 2931 examinees (1107 female and 1824 male) who sat Tarbiat Modares
Mohsen Shirazizadeh, Gholam Reza Kiany
doaj  

Behind the Scenes of an Evolving Event Cloze Test [PDF]

Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Linking Models of Lexical, Sentential and Discourse-level Semantics, 2017
This paper analyzes the narrative event cloze test and its recent evolution. The test removes one event from a document’s chain of events, and systems predict the missing event. Originally proposed to evaluate learned knowledge of event scenarios (e.g., scripts and frames), most recent work now builds ngram-like language models (LM) to beat the test ...
openaire   +1 more source

Eye Movements, Item Modality, and Multimodal Second Language Vocabulary Learning: Processing and Outcomes

Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 528-564, June 2026.
Abstract This study examined second language vocabulary processing and learning in reading only (RO) versus reading while listening (RWL). 119 English learners read or read‐while‐listening to a story embedded with 25 pseudowords, 10 times each, and had their eye movements tracked.
Jonathan Malone, Bronson Hui, Nick Pandža, Tetiana Tytko   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Teaching Reading Comprehension by Using the Cloze Strategy: The Case of One Islamic Private Junior High School

Ta'dib, 2020
The aim of this study was to find out whether or not there was a significant difference on students’ reading comprehension achievement between the students who were taught by using Cloze Strategy and those who were taught by using the teacher’s method ...
Meidiana Eka Putri
doaj   +3 more sources

Revisiting Text Readability and Processing Effort in Second Language Reading: Bayesian Analysis of Eye‐Tracking Data

Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 671-703, June 2026.
Abstract Studies have explored the relationship between text readability and processing effort in second language (L2) reading—as evidenced by eye movements. However, these studies generally relied on short texts, raising concerns about the validity of the analyzed data. This study reexamined these relationships using open‐source eye‐tracking data from
Shingo Nahatame, Kazuhiro Yamaguchi
wiley   +1 more source

InDEX: Indonesian Idiom and Expression Dataset for Cloze Test

, 2022
We propose InDEX, an Indonesian Idiom and Expression dataset for cloze test. The dataset contains 10438 unique sentences for 289 idioms and expressions for which we generate 15 different types of distractors, resulting in a large cloze-style corpus. Many
Qiu, Xinying, Shi, Guofeng
core   +1 more source

Readability Ease of Online Hearing-Related Information in Hindi

Journal of Indian Speech Language & Hearing Association, 2018
Introduction The purpose of this study was to assess the readability of hearing-related Internet information in Hindi language. Methods Native Hindi speakers identified five Hindi keywords relating to hearing problems that were used to search for hearing-
Seema Diwan, Rebecca J. Kelly Campbell
doaj   +1 more source