In this paper, an automatic system for the assessment of reading in children is described and evaluated. The assessment is based on a reading test with 40 words, presented one by one to the child by means of a computerized reading tutor. The score that expresses the child’s reading performance is calculated as the total time needed to read the 40 words divided by the number of correctly read wo...

This study investigated the effects of a 16-week reading instruction program with discourse structure graphic organizers (DSGOs) on the development of English reading comprehension among college-level English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students. A total of 340 first and third semester students of non-English majors at a Chinese university participated in this study. A DSGO completion test and ...

Computerized Motion Diagnostic Imaging (CMDI) Systems (Motion Diagnostics Laboratories, Hauppauge, NY) employ a dual-inclinometer and/or a long-arm goniometer and computer software to track range of motion and can allegedly estimate the percentage of impairment of the spine. However, there is a lack of evidence in the published peer-reviewed medical literature to support the usefulness of these...

Reading groups can be spaces of resistance, both from the competitive performances of some classroom seminars and from the calculative fields of neoliberalizing departments and universities. As graduate students, we offer this intervention as a consideration of the bodily politics of academic reproductions. In discussing the embodiment of textual practices in seminar and in reading groups, we p...

The research literature has already provided us with some of what we need. There is consistent evidence that those who have more access to books read more (Krashen, 1993), and that those students who are provided with more time to do recreational reading (e.g. sustained silent reading programs) show better gains in reading achievement than comparison students. The effect is especially strong wh...

A compelling body of research indicates that English language learners andlor students who live in poverty are at-risk for reading failure. This study uses data to assess the effectiveness of a mandatory, eight-week, intensive reading remediation program for English language learners and other students identified with reading failure. Results indicated that students received widespread nonsigni...

13. The problem of determining all algebraic minimal surfaces was solved analytically by Weierstrass in 1866 (see his collected works, volume 3, pages 39-52). Darboux, in his Théorie générale des surfaces, part 1, No. 221, has shown that such surfaces can always be generated by the translation of an algebraic curve. This shows that the function F(s) used in the formulas of Weierstrass must be a...

Braille is an important form of written communication for many visually disabled people. Perceptual factors limiting Braille reading speed are poorly understood, partly because of the lack of accurate, standardized testing methods. In this paper, we describe a new, standardized method for measuring Braille reading speed, adapted from the MNREAD test for print reading speed. The key principles i...

On one reading, illegalen refers to a group of illegal aliens that has not been previously mentioned, and which is introduced in the discourse by the very mentioning of the word illegalen. This is the existential reading (which will also be referred to as the weak reading, following De Hoop 1992). On another reading, illegalen refers to the kind of people who are called `illegal aliens', and (1...

This article reports the results of a twelve-week intervention study in which 30 students in the third grade in a socially disadvantaged neighbourhood received training in a reciprocal teaching reading programme twice a week. Previously, (a) no study of the effects of reciprocal teaching had been conducted in a Swedish context under the conditions of larger groups in grade 3 or (b) in a sociall...