This study uses a moving windows self-paced reading task to assess both text comprehension and processing time of authentic texts and these same texts simplified to beginning and intermediate levels. Forty-eight second language learners each read 9 texts (3 different authentic, beginning, and intermediate level texts). Repeated measures ANOVAs reported linear effects of text type on reading tim...

The relative importance of meaning (semantic context) and spaces between words during reading was investigated. Sub jects read paragraphs of coherent or incoherent text aloud; some paragraphs were presented normally, others with spaces between words removed. Coherent paragraphs were taken from a short story. Incoherent paragraphs had the same words and punctuation as the coherent paragraphs, bu...

Research continues to suggest that adolescents struggle with reading, indicating that much work remains to ensure that all students read at levels consistent with the skills required for academic achievement (Biancarosa & Snow, 2006). This article investigates whole class choral reading (WCCR) within the context of a sixth-grade language arts setting for the purpose of improving oral reading fl...

Reading is a gate for grasping any insight of knowledge and science. The objective the research was accepted to report relationship among reading interest, grammar knowledge, comprehension narrative text. It conducted tenth-grade students State Islamic senior high school in Senior High School 3 Pandeglang. methodology applied quantitative used simple random sampling technique. Three instruments...

This paper looks at two specific problems faced by second-language university students attending courses in English for Academic Purposes: expository texts and reading-to-write tasks. A reading reaction journal (RRJ) can provide a forum for students as they activate a variety of reading strategies when reading expository text and in addition, can provide a focal point for students as they criti...

Project LISTEN’s Reading Tutor helps children learn to read by providing assisted practice in reading connected text. A key goal is to provide assistance for reading any English text entered by students or adults. This live demonstration shows how the Reading Tutor helps users enter and narrate stories, and then helps children read them. Areas: intelligent interfaces, computer-aided instruction...

We measured pictogram naming (PN) and text reading in dyslexic and normally reading young teenagers. Eye movements were monitored by scanning laser ophthalmoscope, revealing positions of fovea, stimuli on the retina, and speech simultaneously. While text reading speed showed the expected difference between groups, PN speeds overlapped widely. PN was mainly controlled by retrieval time in both g...