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Body–object interaction effect in word recognition and its relationship with screen time in Chinese children
A sample of 144 s- and 150 fourth-grade Chinese children was recruited to investigate the influence of body–object interactions (BOIs) on word...
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Exploring the Interface Between Individual Difference Variables and the Knowledge of Second Language Grammar
The last few decades have seen extensive research focusing of the relative effectiveness of different instructional options that can be employed in...
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Humorous Use of Figurative Language in Religious Hate Speech
In this chapter we give an overview of the usage and context of figurative elements in hate speech, addressing also the role of humour in such...
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Does vocabulary knowledge matter in the effectiveness of instructing reading strategies? Differential responses from adolescents with low academic achievement on growth in reading comprehension
Prior studies suggest that teaching reading strategies promotes reading comprehension in adolescents who have difficulties with reading...
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The effectiveness of self-regulated strategy development on improving English writing: Evidence from the last decade
Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) is a criterion-based teaching approach incorporating explicit and systematic instruction of writing...
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Research on the Effects of Personality Hardiness on Interpreting Performance: With Interpreting Anxiety and Self-efficacy as Intermediates
The primary purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between personality hardiness and interpreting performance among Chinese...
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Results
Considering the inclusion and exclusion criteria we developed in the previous chapter, out of the 144 primary studies, 84 were selected to be...
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Foreign language reading anxiety and its correlates: a meta-analysis
Despite the growing body of research on foreign language reading anxiety, there is still a dearth of comprehensive meta-analysis regarding the effect...
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Motivational predictors of reading comprehension in middle school: Role of self-efficacy and growth mindsets
We examined the extent to which self-efficacy and growth mindsets predict reading comprehension growth in sixth grade and the moderating role of...
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Discussion
The supremacy of L2 pragmatic instruction could be justified through the analyses and reported findings which concomitantly highlight the positive...
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Effects of writing instruction on the reading outcomes of students with literacy difficulties in pre-kindergarten to fifth grade: a meta-analysis
Although writing instruction can positively impact reading for students across grades and levels of literacy, the extent to which these findings...
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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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The relationships among working memory, state anxiety, and academic performance in Chinese undergraduates with SLD
Processing efficiency theory can explain the relationship between anxiety and academic success; however, its application to adults with Specific...
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Introduction
The present research, building itself upon interpreting studies and drawing on a host of theoretical and methodological insights from psychology and...
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Reading and emotional-behavioural development in Finnish children: a longitudinal study of associations
Poor reading has been linked to negative outcomes on a wide range of emotional-behavioural dimensions in children. However, little is known about the...
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Sentiment Analysis
In this chapter, we analyze differences in emotional tone in the media portrayal of Jews and Judaism in the West and of Muslims and Islam in the West...
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Longitudinal relations between literacy instruction and early reading achievement: findings from classroom observations in Grades 1–3
The current study examined the relation between the amount of literacy instruction and student reading achievement (word reading and reading...
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Portuguese spelling in primary grades: complexity, length and lexicality effects
This study investigates spelling abilities of 189 second, third, and fourth graders using a word and pseudoword dictation task in European...
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Syntactic predictors for text quality in Dutch upper-secondary school students’ L1 argumentative writing
Among other things, learning to write entails learning how to use complex sentences effectively in discourse. Some research has therefore focused on...
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RAN and two languages: a meta-analysis of the RAN-reading relationship in bilingual children
RAN (Rapid Automatized Naming) is known to be a robust predictor of reading development in different languages. Much less is known about RAN...
