Academic self-efficacy has been positively related to academic achievement in previous studies with middle school, high school, and undergraduate students. This small-scale study investigated the relationship between student reading self-efficacy and student reading achievement with second grade students in central Montana. Participating students completed a Reading Self-Efficacy Questionnaire ...

Short answer questions for reading comprehension are a common task in foreign language learning. Automatic short answer scoring is the task of automatically assessing the semantic content of a student’s answer, marking it e.g. as correct or incorrect. While previous approaches mainly focused on comparing a learner answer to some reference answer provided by the teacher, we explore the use of th...

Uses of symbolic resources can be seen as dialogical processes: they take place in a cultural world constituted by semiotic exchanges; they can lead people to interact; and as artefacts, they contain echoes of many other voices. The article proposes to consider traditional Talmudic study as a paradigmatic dialogical situation, in which scholars learn to use traditional texts as resources to add...

The role of spelling recognition was examined in word reading skills and reading comprehension for dyslexic and nondyslexic children. Dyslexic and nondyslexic children were matched on their raw word reading proficiency. Relationships between spelling recognition and the following were examined for both groups of children: verbal ability, working memory, phonological measures, rapid naming, word...

The strength of the inferences and conclusions that Huffman (2014) makes regarding the effectiveness of extensive reading (ER) relative to intensive reading (IR) at developing reading rate is excessive, and not valid considering the limitations of the methodology of his study. Huffman provides evidence of the effectiveness of ER in developing learners’ reading speed. When measuring reading spee...

Visually impaired people have always experienced difficulties in reading texts, documents and books. However, the ability to obtain information independently is of crucial importance for visually impaired people, since it would give them access to a world which was previously closed to them in terms of access to educational tools, employment resources and information about personal interests an...

Some music has been proved effectively to mitigate anxiety, beneficial to reading. However, little was known on its influence of reading behaviors and outcomes. Thanks to the advance of e-book technology, it becomes possible to track reading rate and outcomes in a real-time manner by the underlying mobile devices. This study intends to examine the effects of the Mozart piece K.448 (sonata for t...