The relation between reading ability and phonological coding and awareness (PCA) skills in individuals who are severely and profoundly deaf was investigated with a meta-analysis. From an initial set of 230 relevant publications, 57 studies were analyzed that experimentally tested PCA skills in 2,078 deaf participants. Half of the studies found statistically significant evidence for PCA skills a...

This study reports an evaluation of the effect of computer-based cognitive and linguistic training on college students' reading and writing skills. The computer-based training included a series of increasingly challenging software programs that were designed to strengthen students' foundational cognitive skills (memory, attention span, processing speed, and sequencing) in the context of listeni...

BACKGROUND the abilities of school children for reading static texts have been widely discussed, however little is known about how well they can read dynamic texts and what skills are required for this kind of reading. AIM to evaluate the skills involved in reading movie subtitles of 2nd and 4th graders of students at the a public school. METHOD analysis of the level and skills needed for m...

This article investigates a reading skill content in English textbook used at state senior high school from the point of view its variety, exploitability, suitability, length text, readability, and authenticity texts. A representation theory was to explore key issue textbook. multimodal discourse analysis is applied, more specifically through verbal visual texts within The results reveal that t...