Internationally, teachers use oral reading fluency (ORF) measurements to monitor learning progress in and adapt instruction the individual needs of students. In ORF measures, child reads aloud single syllables, words, or short passages, teacher rates parallel at which items makes a mistake. Since administering paper-based requires increased effort on part teachers, computer-based test administr...

The main aim of this study was to investigate how oral fluency is assessed across different levels proficiency in the Test English for Educational Purposes (TEEP). Working with data from 56 test-takers performing a monologic task at range (equivalent approximately 5.0, 5.5, 6.5, and 7.5 IELTS scoring system), we used PRAAT analysis measure speed, breakdown, repair fluency. A multivariate varian...

In recent years, the Education for All movement has focused more intensely on the quality of education, rather than simply provision. Many recent and current education quality interventions focus on literacy, which is the core skill required for further academic success. Despite this focus on the quality of literacy instruction in developing countries, little rigorous research has been conducte...

We will demonstrate Interactive Books that children English can use independently to learn to read English texts accurately, fluently and expressively. The books feature Marni, a bilingual virtual reading teacher. Marni first familiarizes children with text by narrating it in the child’s first language, (currently, either Chinese or Spanish), followed by narration and read along activities in E...

Using speech processing technologies with third-grade readers, several new measures of reading rate were developed that involved measuring reading speed of individual words within the context of continuous text. Scores from one test form consisting of three passages were correlated with scores from another test form with three different passages to evaluate each measure’s reliability. Correlati...

The ability to reproduce novel words is a sensitive marker of language impairment across a variety of developmental disorders. Nonword repetition tasks are thought to reflect phonological short-term memory skills. Yet, when children hear and then utter a word for the first time, they must transform a novel speech signal into a series of coordinated, precisely timed oral movements. Little is kno...

Abstract The goal of this study was to examine the relation morphological skills with reading fluency in 2nd grade Greek-speaking children and if phonological awareness vocabulary mediate their relation. sample consisted 105 students (46 males; Mage = 7.83 years, SD 3.31). Morphological assessed four tasks, examining inflectional derivational morphology both at an epilinguistic metalinguistic l...

The present study addressed the nature of bilingual semantic processing in Mandarin Chinese and Southern Min and examined category effects and age effects. Nineteen bilingual adults of Mandarin Chinese and Southern Min, nine monolingual seniors of Mandarin Chinese, and ten monolingual seniors of Southern Min in Taiwan individually completed two semantic tasks: Picture naming and category fluenc...