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On the readability of texts presented in sentence-by-sentence segments to beginner readers: Evidence from self-paced reading and eye tracking
Many digital reading applications have built-in features to control the presentation flow of texts by segmenting those texts into smaller linguistic...
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Phonological decoding does not affect incidental Chinese novel word learning in Uyghur readers: evidence from eye movements
Vocabulary is an important foundation for reading skills. Dual-route cascaded model believes that when form-sound correspondence is irregular,...
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The effect of efficient professional development on the teaching of code-focused skills in beginner readers: exploring the impact of professional development intensity and coaching on student outcomes
Professional development (PD) of teachers working with students in the first years of learning to read is a privileged way of preventing initial...
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Precursors of reading text comprehension from paper and screen in first graders: a longitudinal study
Research on text comprehension in relation to the reading medium (paper or screen) has mainly involved undergraduate or high school students. To...
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The effect of a reading aloud program on reading rate and reading prosody in a group of sixth-grade low-achievement, language-minority, and/or low-SES readers
The purpose of this study was to investigate if a group of sixth-grade low achievement language minority (LM) students’ reading skills could be...
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Global reading processes in children with high risk of dyslexia: a scanpath analysis
The study presents the first systematic comparison of the global reading processes via scanpath analysis in Russian-speaking children with and...
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An eye tracking study of digital text reading: a comparison between poor and typical readers
The inclusion of technology in schools, coupled with the importance of promoting reading for students with difficulties in particular, has increased...
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Children’s Literature: Exploring Intertextual Relationships
Texts carry traces of the language, social and cultural characteristics of both the period in which they were written and the period before them....
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Disfluency and Proficiency in Second Language Speech Production
This book explores the concept of disfluency in speech production, particularly as it occurs in the context of second language acquisition. Drawing...
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Compensatory cross-modal effects of sentence context on visual word recognition in adults
Reading involves map** combinations of a learned visual code (letters) onto meaning. Previous studies have shown that when visual word recognition...
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Contextualizing and Adapting Teacher Education and Professional Development
In the past two decades, the influence of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) in language teaching has significantly expanded. In parallel...
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Novice Chinese Learners’ Character Learning Strategies and Character Skills: A Think-Aloud Study
Chinese has become one of the most commonly spoken languages in New Zealand. However, the unique writing system of Chinese presents significant...
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Development of comprehension monitoring in beginner readers
The current study was designed to understand the development of comprehension monitoring among beginner readers from first to third grade, and to...
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Innovating the Design of Lower-Level Reading and Writing Curriculum for the Digital Age
This chapter proposes an innovative curricular design that centers around the concept of digital performance to address three major shortcomings of...
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Linguistic Mechanisms, Processes, and Results
In this chapter, readers learn about processes and mechanisms that are part of language change. We start with defining and elaborating on contexts of...
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Simplifying Texts for Easier Comprehension in an Introductory Computer Science Course: An Evaluation of Rewordify
The ability to read and understand course materials undergirds success in university, and yet many second language (L2) students working with English...
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Orthographic depth and developmental dyslexia: a meta-analytic study
Cross-cultural studies have suggested that reading deficits in developmental dyslexia (DD) can be moderated by orthographic depth. To further explore...
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Word reading by sequential trilingual: the relative strength of lexical and sub-lexical processing in Arabic and English orthographies
This study investigated the strength of lexical and non-lexical processing among Arabic (L1) English (L3)-speaking children (fourth and fifth...
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Staying Afloat: Attracting Hebrew Language Students with Collaboration and the Use of Content Based Instruction
Instigating change in established language programs is a difficult task. This chapter discusses the changes that occurred in the Hebrew language...