Silent reading fluency and comprehension in bilingual children
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 This paper focuses on reading fluency by bilingual primary school students, and the relation of text fluency to their reading comprehension. Group differences were examined in a cross-sectional design across the age range when fluency is posed to shift ...
Beth O'Brien, Sebastian Wallot
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Why We Need to Study Assisted Methods to Teach Typing to Nonspeaking Autistic People
Autism Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT At least one third of autistic people have limited or no speech. Most nonspeaking autistic people are never provided alternatives that would enable the full range of expression that speech allows, significantly limiting their access to educational, social, and employment opportunities.
Vikram K. Jaswal +4 more
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Comparison of different speech tasks among adults who stutter and adults who do not stutter
Clinics, 2016 OBJECTIVES: In this study, we compared the performance of both fluent speakers and people who stutter in three different speaking situations: monologue speech, oral reading and choral reading. This study follows the assumption that the neuromotor control
Ana Paula Ritto +3 more
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Does Camouflaging Predict Functioning, Distress, and Quality of Life for Autistic Adults?
Autism Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It has been proposed that autistic individuals adopt camouflaging strategies to mask their autistic traits and conform to social norms, and that these camouflaging strategies have been linked to adverse mental health outcomes. This study examined whether camouflaging, measured by the Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT‐Q ...
Bruna B. Roisenberg +3 more
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VOCABULARY ACQUISITION: PROCESS AND INSTRUCTION
Signo, 2013 Building meaning from a written text does not depend solely on vocabulary knowledge. Nevertheless, research has shown that less fluent readers need to increase their vocabulary repertoire in order not to impair fluent reading.
Leonilda Procailo +1 more
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Assessing reading fluency in elementary grades: A machine learning approach
Computers and Education: Artificial IntelligenceThis study compares eleven widely used machine learning algorithms to identify the most accurate and comprehensive method for assessing children's reading fluency.
Gabriel Candido da Silva +12 more
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Measuring beginner reading skills: An empirical evaluation of alternative instruments and their potential use for policymaking and accountability in Peru [PDF]
Based on analysis of reading performance data from 475 third-graders in Peru, this study makes recommendations on improving reading tests, choice of reading standards, and how to present the results at the school and individual levels.
Bazan, Jorge, Kudo, Ines
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Tailoring the curriculum to fit students’ needs: Designing and improving a language course at Dhaka University - Bangladesh [PDF]
, 2007 The assessment of students’ language needs is a crucial pre-requisite in EAP (English for Academic purposes) curriculum development. Effective needs analysis leads to the specification of objectives for a course at the same time considering the available
Chaudhury, Tazin Aziz
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Event Processing through naming: Investigating event focus in two people with aphasia [PDF]
, 2007 Some people with aphasia may have trouble with verbs because of fundamental difficulties in processing situations in a way that maps readily onto language.
Cairns, D. +3 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The home literacy environment (HLE) has a considerable influence on children's language development. How parents perceive their own parenting abilities (e.g., how well they encourage their children's language development) is particularly important when it comes to guiding their children appropriately through different stages of development ...
Luisa Prokupek +4 more
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