Lombardino - Grammatical sentence production in individuals with and without dyslexia.ĭyslexia can result in delays in language development affecting phonological, morphological, and syntactic competence however, the linguistic variables causing these difficulties have not been identified. of Florida) Cynthia Puranik, Elizabeth Mikell, Linda J.
Confirmatory factor analyses and structuring equation modeling were used to determine the unique contribution of fluency to reading comprehension across the grades. In this study, we examined this hypothesis using a large, longitudinal sample of children tested in 2nd, 4th, and 8th grades on measures of word recognition, fluency, listening comprehension, and reading comprehension. Studies suggest that reading fluency plays an increasing role important role in the reading comprehension abilities through the school years. Hogan, Todd Little - The role of fluency in reading comprehension. The goals were (1) to identify factors clustered at the transition from independent-level to instructional-level reading, and (2) to develop heuristics for estimating performance across text levels for individuals (e.g., predicting texts that should fall within a child's independent level). The readings were captured by speech recognition technology so as to allow re-scoring of accuracy, examination of dysfluencies, and precise measurement of both overall and within-passage temporal parameters.
Students in grades 2-6 were asked to read aloud a series of passages that ranged in difficulty from beneath to above their grade-level. Marilyn Jager Adams (Soliloquy Learning) - Using accuracy and fluency to estimate independent, instructional, and frustration-level reading material. Based on this data some conclusions will be drawn about bilingual education among regular and dyslexic readers. Two studies will be the focus of the presentation the first examined the relationship among reading, writing, phonological, syntactic, orthographic, and memory skills in three languages with different orthographies, and the second examined regular and dyslexic Arabic speakers learning English as a second language. Data about regular and dyslexic readers will also be presented. An introduction about the Arabic orthography and its characteristics will be presented. The focus of this paper will be on the way native Arabic speakers acquire second and third languages. of Haifa) - Bilingual Literacy among regular and dyslexic Arabic readers. It is concluded that learning English first as a written language helps children to avoid spelling errors that are dialectical in nature, but the phonology of native Tamil leads children to commit spelling errors of a different kind.
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