Having been out of academia for a number of years, I jumped at the chance to review these volumes, seeing this as an opportunity to get back up to speed with what was happening with the functional programming community. To give you some background, the point where I left to join industry was just after the world started using monads to structure their functional creations and I wondered what ha...

Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of mind (1978) highlights the interdependence of the individual, social community and interactions in the construction of knowledge. The theory has been widely adopted in the area of applied linguistics research, and it has been employed to explain second language learning processes (Storch, 2013). The stated aim of this 192-page book is to introduce the key conc...

CHAPTER 1 8 In our society, where print is omnipresent and extremely important as a means of communication, possessing sufficient reading skills is crucial for participation. It has been shown that children who engage in more leisure time reading are generally better readers (e. An important reason that determines whether children do or do not engage in leisure time reading is reading enjoyment...

Silent reading fluency has received limited attention in the school-based literatures across the past decade. We fill this gap by examining both oral and silent reading fluency and their relation to overall abilities in reading comprehension in fourth-grade students. Lower-level reading skills (word reading, rapid automatic naming) and vocabulary were included in structural equation models in o...

The present study compared two reading modes of oral and silent reading to investigate which mode was more advantageous for EFL reading comprehension. The participants were thirty-three Japanese university students. In the experiment, the participants read narrative passages orally and silently. After each reading, a comprehension test was given to see if they comprehend the contents of the pas...

Evidence that rapid naming skill is associated with reading ability has become increasingly prevalent in recent years. However, there is considerable variation in the literature concerning the magnitude of this relationship. The objective of the present study was to provide a comprehensive analysis of the evidence on the relationship between rapid automatized naming (RAN) and reading performanc...

Have you ever felt like you got to know a character in a story, or felt like you could imagine the world she lived in? Have you ever wondered why the books we read seem to come to life in our minds? Studies from laboratories around the world are beginning to unravel this mystery. These studies show that when we read stories, our minds actually act like they are participating in the events in th...

1 Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 8 Eroii Sanitari, Sector 5, Bucharest, Romania 2 Emergency Hospital Floreasca, Bucharest 5, Calea Floreasca Nr 8, Sector 1, Bucharest, Romania 3 National Institute of Materials Physics, 105 bis Atomistilor, P.O. Box MG 07, 077125 Bucuresti-Magurele, Romania 4 Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest, 405 Atomistilor, CP MG-1, 077125 Magurel...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a collaborative, multi-component reading intervention approach for adolescent students in high school with severe reading disabilities. Students in the experimental condition received 24 weeks of multi-component, differentiated small group interventions from a special-education teacher, a speech pathologist, and a paraprofessional w...