Morphological awareness, which is an understanding of how words can be broken down into smaller units of meaning such as roots, prefixes, and suffixes, has emerged as an important contributor to word reading and comprehension skills. The first aim of the current study was to investigate the contribution of morphological awareness independent of phonological awareness and decoding to the reading...

In the current study, we utilize natural language processing techniques to examine relations between the linguistic properties of students’ self-explanations and their reading comprehension skills. Linguistic features of students’ aggregated selfexplanations were analyzed using the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) software. Results indicated that linguistic properties of self-explanatio...

The purpose of this study was to determine computer and Internet use in agricultural extension by Extension Workers (EWs). This study used a descriptive-correlational design.Population for the study consisted of all extension workers (N= 320) in Isfahan Province, Iran. A stratified sampling technique and census was used to select EWs (n = 200). Overall, findings indicate that EWs have access to...

The development of reading skills is underpinned by oral language abilities: Phonological skills appear to have a causal influence on the development of early word-level literacy skills, and reading-comprehension ability depends, in addition to word-level literacy skills, on broader (semantic and syntactic) language skills. Here, we report a longitudinal study of children at familial risk of dy...

This study explores the auditory processing skills of a 14-year-old boy (William) with an acquired aphasia, diagnosed as Landau–Kleffner syndrome. A single case study design was implemented, with the use of both chronological age-matched and receptive-language-matched control participants. Tasks were designed to investigate non-linguistic and linguistic auditory processing. The results indicate...

Music notation and English word reading have similar visual processing requirements. It remains unclear how the two skills influence each other. Here we investigated the modulation of music reading expertise on visual processing of English words through an ERP study. Participants matched English real, pseudo, and non-words preceded by musical segments or novel symbol strings in a sequential mat...

OBJECTIVE Health-care communication skills training may be particularly needed in the Arabian Gulf countries because of the variety of cultures within the physician and patient populations. This study describes the implementation and results of a communication skills training program for physicians in Qatar that assessed previous training, and effect of previous training on participants' course...

This research examines how youth in arts and leadership programs develop skills for organizing actions over time to achieve goals. Ethnically diverse youth (ages 13-21) in 11 high-quality urban and rural programs were interviewed as they carried out projects. Qualitative analyses of 712 interviews with 108 youth yielded preliminary grounded theory about youth's development of strategic thinking...

Assessment software is currently being deployed by a UK Examination Board to largely replace human assessment for the accreditation of word processing skills for one of its most popular awards. This paper is intended to outline some of the key lessons learned concerning assessment software development and deployment which have been instrumental in the project’s

This study pointed out that word problem solving instruction in Realistic Math Education (RME) may have insufficient attention for teaching semantic-linguistic skills to handle semantic complexities in word problems. We investigated the performances of 80 sixth grade students, classified as successful and less successful word problem solvers based on a standardized mathematics test from the RME...