Sökning: "reading fluency"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden reading fluency.

  1. 1. Two Languages, Two Scripts : Bilingual and Biscriptal Children with and without Reading Difficulties Read and Write in Persian (L1) and Swedish (L2)

    Författare :Baran Johansson; Eva Lindgren; Maria Levlin; Sven Strömqvist; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Reading; Writing; Eye and Pen; Handwriting; Persian; Swedish; Bilinguals; Biscriptals; Writing fluency; Meaning making; Pauses; Bursts; Linguistic skills; Cognitive Skills; Bilingual writers; Reading difficulties; Skrivande; Läsning; Tvåspråkiga barn; Tvåspråkighet; Flerspråkighet; Lässvårigheter; Läsflyt; Avkodning; Pauser; Bursts; Eye and Pen; Loggning; Två skriftsystem; Persiska; Svenska; Handskrift; Meningsskapande; Lingvistiska färdigheter; Kognitiva färdigheter; Linguistics; lingvistik;

    Sammanfattning : The main aim of this dissertation was to explore L1 (Persian) and L2 (Swedish) reading and writing of 26 bilingual biscriptal children with and without reading difficulties (RD) (years 4–9). Previous studies have mainly focused on Latin scripts or one alphabetic and one non-alphabetic script with English as L1 or L2. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Mind your Language, All Right? Performance-dependent neural patterns of language

    Författare :Helene van Ettinger-Veenstra; Maria Engström; Peter Lundberg; Thomas Karlsson; Anita McAllister; Karsten Specht; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Language ability; performance; fMRI; functional magnetic resonance imaging; Broca; Wernicke; temporal lobe; inferior frontal gyrus; reading; fluency; lateralization; lateralisation; right hemisphere; performance-dependent; neural activation;

    Sammanfattning : The main aim of this dissertation was to investigate the difference in neural language patternsrelated to language ability in healthy adults. The focus lies on unraveling the contributions of theright‐hemispheric homologues to Broca’s area in the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and Wernicke’s areain the posterior temporal and inferior parietal lobes. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Datorträning i läsflyt och stavning : analys och utvärdering av fixerad och resultatstyrd flash-cardexponering

    Författare :Maj-Gun Johansson; Åke Olofsson; Pekka Niemi; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Reading fluency; automatization; flashcard training; time pressured exposure; computer-based remediation; dyslexia; decoding strategy; orthographic coding; phonological decoding; Psychology; Psykologi; Psychology; psykologi; Education; pedagogik;

    Sammanfattning : During the last decade new attention has been paid to reading fluency. One reason might be that training studies often have failed to provide growth in reading rate in spite of the fact that the accuracy problem was remediated. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Dyslexia: Relevance of Concepts, Validity of Measurements, and Cognitive Functions

    Författare :Jan Alm; Lennart Melin; Håkan Nyman; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Psychology; Learning disabilities; learning disorders; specific learning difficulties; reading disability; reading disorder; WAIS-R; Psykologi; Psychology; Psykologi;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis opens with an exposition of different uses of the term dyslexia. In that context its conceptual relevance is discussed. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Extramural English Matters : Out-of-School English and Its Impact on Swedish Ninth Graders' Oral Proficiency and Vocabulary

    Författare :Pia Sundqvist; Solveig Granath; Hugo Wikström; June Miliander; Magnus Ljung; Karlstads universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Extramural English; out-of-school learning; implicit learning; learner language; oral proficiency; oral fluency; second language acquisition; second language learning; ESL; EFL; vocabulary acquisition; assessment; speaking tests; language diary; motivation; self-efficacy; anxiety; speech; oral communication; core vocabulary; peripheral vocabulary; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

    Sammanfattning : The present study examines possible effects of extramural English (EE) on oral proficiency (OP) and vocabulary (VOC). The study is based on data collected from Swedish learners of ESL in grade 9 (aged 15-16; N=80; 36 boys, 44 girls) over a period of one year. LÄS MER