Exploring EFL university learners’ acquisition of advanced reading skills in the Yemeni context
Reading is an essential language skill for enhancing learners’ performance at various levels of study. However, EFL learners at the tertiary level encounter reading difficulties, particularly in acquiring advanced reading skills, which have affected ...
Waleed Mohammed A. Ahmed
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Implementating ‘Calistung’ Clinic Program to Overcome Students’ Reading Difficulty
There were 8 chlidren who had difficulty reading in grade I Ibnu Khaldun, every child has different reading difficulty. This study aims to identify reading difficulties experienced by students and the application of the reading, writing, and counting ...
Silvio Juliana Nabela +3 more
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A comparison of two-coloured filter systems for treating visual reading difficulties [PDF]
Copyright @ 2013 Informa UK Ltd.Purpose: Visual disturbances that make it difficult to read text are often termed “visual stress”. Coloured filters in spectacles may help some children overcome reading problems that are often caused by visual stress.
Hall, Roger +7 more
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Neuropsychological Assessment of Difficulties in Reading Spanish: A Cultural-Historical Approach [PDF]
Background. This paper argues that Cultural-Historical neuropsychology provides a solid theoretical framework for the assessment of reading difficulties. Objective.
Yulia Solovieva +2 more
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Investigating the causes of reading comprehension failure: the comprehension-age match design. [PDF]
The reading-level (or reading-age) match design has become a widely-used tool for investigating the possible direction of the relation between particular skills and word reading ability: Cause or consequence.
Cain, Kate +2 more
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This study aims to describe the types of early reading difficulties, the causes of early reading difficulties, and explain how teachers overcome early reading difficulties in second grade students. This research use desciptive qualitative approach.
Melin Tarigas +4 more
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Evolving Concepts of Dyslexia and Their Implications for Research and Remediation
Aspects of dyslexia definitions are framed as a contrast between the past and the future, focusing on implications for research and remedial education, highlighting assumptions that bias or limit research or clinical practice.
Athanassios Protopapas
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Matthew effects in young readers : reading comprehension and reading experience aid vocabulary development [PDF]
The authors report data from a longitudinal study of the reading development of children who were assessed in the years of their 8th, 11th, 14th, and 16th birthdays.
Oakhill, Jane, Cain, Kate
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The Neurobiology of Reading Difficulties
There is very little agreement about why so many otherwise intelligent children experience such difficulty learning to read. Up to 10% of children fail to learn to read at the level expected of their age and other cognitive abilities. Some people still believe that their problems are purely linguistic, due to inheriting or acquiring a defective ...
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Gender ratios for reading difficulties [PDF]
AbstractThe prevalence of reading difficulties is typically higher in males than females in both referred and research‐identified samples, and the ratio of males to females is greater in more affected samples. To explore possible gender differences in reading performance, we analysed data from 1133 twin pairs in which at least one member of each pair ...
Jesse L, Hawke +4 more
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