Drill Method: Improving Reading Aloud Skills?

Effectiveness of PLATO in Improving Reading Skills

Connectionist Modelling of Reading Aloud

A new class of neural network models of reading aloud are presented. Unlike previous models, they are not restricted to monosyllabic words, require no complicated input-output representations such as Wickelfeatures and require no pre-processing to align the letters and phonemes in the training data. The best cases are able to achieve 100% performance on the Seidenberg & McClelland training corp...

Improving literacy skills through learning reading by writing: The iWTR method presented and tested

Learning to read and write is a basic skill that unfortunately not everybody acquires sufficiently. Lack of teachers and time in school are some of the reasons, but in addition the enormous rise in informational activities due to the Internet and other information technology-enabled opportunities has made literacy skills increasingly important to ever more people. This means literacy education ...

The effectiveness of instructional software in reading comprehension skills and reading aloud of Omani fourth basic schools’ students

Background A significant body of research supports the notion that best practice in the teaching and learning of language incorporates complementary use of technology with the development of foundational knowledge and use of language (Hoopingarner 2009; Goh et al. 2004). Sometimes referred to as e-language learning, myriad opportunities exist for the exploration of the innovative ways technolog...

Influence of verb and noun bases on reading aloud derived nouns: evidence from children with good and poor reading skills

Several studies on children and adults with and without linguistic impairment have reported differences between verb and noun processing. The present study assessed whether noun and verb bases affect differently children’s reading of derived words. Thirty-six Italian good readers and 18 poor readers, all 4th or 5th graders, were asked to read aloud nouns derived from either a noun base (e.g., a...