The current study investigated the type of strategies that English–French bilingual adults utilize when reading in their dominant and non-dominant languages which these are associated with comprehension success. Thirty-nine participants read short texts while reporting aloud what they were thinking as read. Following each passage, readers answered three questions. Questions either required info...

We propose that data-driven and conceptually-driven processing become integrated to form an episodic representation that mediates transfer to later reading and memory tasks. These experiments explored conditions that produce visual script specificity for episodic transfer. Earlier work suggested that script sensitivity is reliably found only when the script is unusual or difficult to read, lead...

Jack Mostow, fzom CMU, began the evening by showing a prototype reading coach designed to help children read by listening to them reading aloud. The system follows along as the student reads, detecting when words are not read correctly or when the reader gets stuck. Reading disfluencies are evaluated by a rulebased pedagogical evaluation component, which chooses appropriate interventions to hel...

Thinking aloud is widely used for usability evaluation. The validity of the method is, however, debatable because it is generally used in a relaxed way that conflicts with the prescriptions of the classic model for obtaining valid verbalizations of thought processes. This study investigates whether participants that think aloud in the classic or relaxed way behave differently compared to perfor...

Constructive interaction provides natural thinking-aloud as test subjects collaborate in pairs to solve tasks. Since children may face difficulties in following instructions for a standard think-aloud test, constructive interaction has been suggested as evaluation method when usability testing with children. However, the relationship between think-aloud and constructive interaction is still poo...

To the best of our knowledge, the first person to suggest that there are different types of developmental dyslexia was the educational psychologist Helmer Myklebust. In Myklebust (1965), he suggested that some dyslexic children have difficulty in learning to read because they “could not acquire the auditory equivalents of the appearances of the letters” (p. 30: Myklebust referred to this condit...

Purpose To investigate the capacity for self-monitoring reading comprehension in Brazilian Elementary School students. Methods Fifty-three Elementary students in the 5th and 9th grades from two Public Schools in the city of São Paulo were assessed. They were selected based on their oral reading rate and grouped according to their performance in reading comprehension in the following categorie...

In pure alexic patients, clear-cut dissociations between impaired naming and preserved comprehension abilities can be found in the domain of number processing (Cohen & Dehaene, 1995). In the present study, we report a novel case of pure alexia with striking preservation of some calculation abilities. The patient was fully able to decide which of two numbers was the larger, or whether a number w...