The effect of orthographic depth on letter string processing: the case of visual attention span and rapid automatized naming     

Alexia Antzaka  Clara Martin  Sendy Caffarra  Sophie Schlöffel  Manuel Carreiras  Marie Lallier 《Reading and writing》2018,31(3):583-605

The present study investigated whether orthographic depth can increase the bias towards multi-letter processing in two reading-related skills: visual attention span (VAS) and rapid automatized naming (RAN). VAS (i.e., the number of visual elements that can be processed at once in a multi-element array) was tested with a visual 1-back task and RAN was measured in a serial letter naming task that introduced a novel manipulation (some letter sequences formed frequent words). Spanish-Basque and French-Basque bilingual children were tested at early (30 children in 1st and 2nd grade), and more advanced (24 children in 3rd, 4th and 5th grade) stages of reading acquisition to investigate whether they would be differently biased towards multi-letter processing due to reading in two shallow (Spanish, Basque), or a deep and a shallow (French, Basque) orthography. The French-Basque bilinguals, who read in a deep orthography, were expected to rely on larger orthographic units in reading and thus to be more biased towards multi-letter processing in both tasks. This was expected to be reflected by: (a) a uniform distribution of attention across letter strings in the VAS task, and (b) a greater interference of the embedded words on letter-by-letter naming in RAN, leading to longer naming times. The expected group differences were observed in the more advanced readers, with French-Basque bilinguals showing a wider distribution of VAS across letter strings and longer naming times in RAN.  相似文献   

Does the Visual Attention Span Play a Role in Reading in Arabic?     

Marie Lallier  Reem Abu Mallouh  Ahmed M. Mohammed  Batoul Khalifa  Manuel Perea  Manuel Carreiras 《Scientific Studies of Reading》2018,22(2):181-190

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ICT in Portuguese reference schools for the education of blind and partially sighted students     

Sara Isabel Moça Ramos  António Manuel Valente de Andrade 《Education and Information Technologies》2016,21(3):625-641

Technology has become an essential component in our society and considering its impact in the educational system, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) cannot be dissociated from the educational process and, in particular, from pedagogical practices adopted for students who are blind or partially sighted. This study focuses on Portuguese reference schools for the education of blind and partially sighted students, regulated by the Decree-Law No. 3/2008, in which are concentrated the human and material resources that can offer an educational response with quality for these students with special education needs. The study intends to analyse the perceptions of the teachers, who teach visually impaired students in middle school and secondary school education in these reference schools, of their knowledge, teaching and training in the area of ICT, as well as of the real ICT integration in the teaching and learning of these students. A survey, which has been applied to these teachers in the 2012/13 school year, was adopted as a method of data collection. The results reveal a sample confident in their technological capabilities, however with little resourcefulness in some tools and software specific to the area of visual impairment and a very significant number of teachers ignoring many of these. The implementation of ICT with students who have visual disabilities is lower compared with the sighted students. The lack of specific training is considered to be the main obstacle for teachers, with regard to the real integration of ICT in the teaching and learning of these students.  相似文献   

Psychometry of the Teacher's Sense of Efficacy Scale in Spanish Teachers' Education     

Rafael Burgueño  Alvaro Sicilia  Jesús Medina-Casaubón  Manuel Alcaraz-Ibañez  María-Jesús Lirola 《Journal of Experimental Education》2019,87(1):89-100

Our objective was to test the factorial validity of the different versions (TSES-24, TSES-12, and TSES-11) of the Teacher's Sense of Efficacy Scale in Spanish preservice teachers'. The participants were 358 preservice teachers. The confirmatory factor analysis showed inadequate fit indexes for both TSES-24 and TSES-12 but adequate fit indexes for TSES-11, which was invariant across gender. The reliability analysis showed appropriate values. The global factor for teachers' sense of efficacy and the three factors that constitute it positively predicted intrinsic motivation and life satisfaction. The global factor for sense of efficacy and the classroom management and student engagement factor negatively predicted amotivation. The results support the use of the TSES-11 three-factor model, rather than TSES-24 or TSES-12, for Spanish preservice teachers.  相似文献   

Sustainable participatory processes of education technology development     

Bolmsten  Johan  Manuel  Michael Ekow 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》2020,68(5):2705-2728

Educational technology research and development - According to UNESCO, sustainable education requires a participatory development process. This article reports the results of three case studies...  相似文献   

Learning to Read Bilingually Modulates the Manifestations of Dyslexia in Adults     

Marie Lallier  Guillaume Thierry  Polly Barr  Manuel Carreiras  Marie-Josephe Tainturier 《Scientific Studies of Reading》2018,22(4):335-349

According to the Grain Size Accommodation hypothesis (Lallier & Carreiras, 2017), learning to read in two languages differing in orthographic consistency leads to a cross-linguistic modulation of reading and spelling processes. Here, we test the prediction that bilingualism may influence the manifestations of dyslexia. We compared the deficits of English monolingual and early Welsh–English bilingual dyslexic adults on reading and spelling irregular English words and English-like pseudowords. As predicted, monolinguals were relatively more impaired in reading pseudowords than irregular words, whereas the opposite was true for bilinguals. Moreover, monolinguals showed stronger sublexical processing deficits than bilinguals and were poorer spellers overall. This study shows that early bilingual reading experience has long-lasting effects on the manifestations of dyslexia in adulthood. It demonstrates that learning to read in a consistent language like Welsh in addition to English gives bilingual dyslexic adults an advantage in English literacy tasks strongly relying on phonological processing.  相似文献   

Professional Development of Teacher Trainers: a case study     

M. Lourdes Montero  Jose Manuel Vez 《欧洲师范教育杂志》1990,13(1-2):25-34

This paper reviews the literature on teacher trainers with special reference to current initiatives in Spain, and provides a case study of the design, delivery and follow‐up to a course for teacher trainers of English language teaching and the pedagogy of language. The course was designed to promote the concept of teachers as reflective practitioners.  相似文献   

The Development of Implicit Memory From Infancy to Childhood: On Average Performance Levels and Interindividual Differences          下载免费PDF全文

Isabel A. Vöhringer  Thorsten Kolling  Frauke Graf  Sonja Poloczek  Ina Fassbender  Claudia Freitag  Bettina Lamm  Janina Suhrke  Johanna Teiser  Manuel Teubert  Heidi Keller  Arnold Lohaus  Gudrun Schwarzer  Monika Knopf 《Child development》2018,89(2):370-382

The present multimethod longitudinal study aimed at investigating development and stability of implicit memory during infancy and early childhood. A total of 134 children were followed longitudinally from 3 months to 3 years of life assessing different age‐appropriate measures of implicit memory. Results from structural equation modeling give further evidence that implicit memory is stable from 9 months of life on, with earlier performance predicting later performance. Second, it was found that implicit memory is present from early on, and no age‐related improvements are found from 3 months on. Results are discussed with respect to the basic brain structures implicit memory builds on, as well as methodological issues.  相似文献   

The role of non-formal contexts in teacher education for STEM: the case of horno3 science and technology interactive centre     

Claudia Fernández-Limón  Juan Manuel Fernández-Cárdenas  Alma Adrianna Gómez Galindo 《师资教育杂志》2018,44(1):71-89

Abstract

Teacher education can benefit directly from experiences in non-formal settings. This article presents a research study with elementary teachers who were teaching in public schools in the state of Nuevo León, México, and participated in a STEM Continuous Professional Development (CPD) workshop. The workshop provided a platform for teachers to interact with scientists and disseminators of science, allowing the appropriation of scientific knowledge applied to everyday activities and settings. Participants improved the quality of their teaching practices in classrooms and gained a new understanding of STEM subjects, enabling them to promote inspiring learning experiences with their students, where dialogue, experimentation and elucidation became an important part of their lessons. The study was carried out using ethnographic tools for analysing recorded videos, 15 sets of field notes, and 49 questionnaires. The sequential analysis of talk and gestures in their participation in the CPD workshop demonstrated high levels of involvement, creativity, and collaborative solution of STEM problems.  相似文献   

Assessment of collaborative learning experiences by graphical analysis of wiki contributions     

Manuel Palomo-Duarte  Juan Manuel Dodero  Inmaculada Medina-Bulo  Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada  Iván Ruiz-Rube 《Interactive Learning Environments》2013,21(4):444-466

The widespread adoption of computers and Internet in our life has reached the classrooms, where computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) based on wikis offers new ways of collaboration and encourages student participation. When the number of contributions from students increases, traditional assessment procedures of e-learning settings suffer from scalability problems. In a wiki-based learning experience, automatic tools are required to support the assessment of such huge amounts of data. In this work, we present StatMediaWiki, a tool that collects and aggregates information that helps to analyze a MediaWiki installation. It generates charts, tables and different statistics enabling easy analysis of wiki evolution. We have used StatMediaWiki in a Higher Education course and present the results obtained in this case study.  相似文献