scholarly journals The Fluency of Oral Reading with Natural Reader Software

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-163
Author(s):  
Varia Virdania Virdaus ◽  
Saiful Rifa’i
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Reading Fluency ◽  
Oral Reading ◽  
Oral Reading Fluency ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Education ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Grade Levels ◽  
Group 2

This recent investigation aims to find out whether natural reader software improves oral reading fluency for English language learners. In this recent study, the natural reader software was considered as independent variable and the oral reading fluency score was regarded as dependent one. The subjects of this investigation were students of English education study program. The number of the students of group (1) were 32 students who are taught using natural reader software and this group was considered to be an experimental group and The number of the students of group (2) were35 students who are taught without using natural reader software this group was considered to be control group. This study has proven that this software can significantly prove that most of  students have more accurate and more precise reading skills. This study has revealed that oral reading fluency instruction does improve global reading proficiency at all grade levels

LONGITUDINAL PREDICTION OF 1ST AND 2ND GRADE ENGLISH ORAL READING FLUENCY IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS: WHICH EARLY READING AND LANGUAGE SKILLS ARE BETTER PREDICTORS?

2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily J. Solari ◽  
Terese C. Aceves ◽  
Ignacio Higareda ◽  
Cara Richards-Tutor ◽  
Alexis L. Filippini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Reading Fluency ◽  
Oral Reading ◽  
Oral Reading Fluency ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Early Reading

scholarly journals The effect of COVID on Oral Reading Fluency during the 2020-2021 Academic Year

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Domingue ◽  
Madison Dell ◽  
David Nathan Lang ◽  
Rebecca Deffes Silverman ◽  
Jason D Yeatman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Reading Fluency ◽  
Oral Reading ◽  
Reading Ability ◽  
Oral Reading Fluency ◽  
English Language ◽  
Rapid Assessment ◽  
School Year ◽  
Policy Interventions

Education has faced unprecedented disruption during the COVID pandemic. Understanding how students have adapted as we have entered a different phase of the pandemic and some communities have returned to more typical schooling will inform a suite of policy interventions and subsequent research. We use data from an oral reading fluency assessment-a rapid assessment taking only a few minutes that measures a fundamental reading skill-to examine COVID’s effects on children’s reading ability during the pandemic. We find that students in the first 200 days of the 2020-2021 school year tended to experience slower growth in ORF relative to pre-pandemic years. We also observed slower growth in districts with a high percentage of English language learners (ELLs) and/or students eligible for free and reduced-price lunch (FRL).

scholarly journals THE EFFECT OF NATURAL READER IN THE TEACHING OF ORAL READING FLUENCY

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Saiful Saiful
Keyword(s):  
Reading Fluency ◽  
Oral Reading ◽  
Oral Reading Fluency ◽  
Interval Data ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Control Group Design ◽  
Normal Speed ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Group 2 ◽  
Experimental Group

Oral reading fluency is important skill that all readers need to develop, because those who has oral reading fluency are assumed to have the skill of reading comprehension and accuracy in delivering the speech. Natural Reader software is a professional text reader that converts any text into spoken words. In this quasi-experimental research applying non-randomized control group design pretest-posttest, the data used were interval data because they were taken from students’ scores of oral reading fluency test.This research was conducted in the English department of a College of Teacher Training and Education in Blitar. Group (1) consisted of 32 students taught using the natural reader software (experimental group) and Group (2) consisted of 35 students taught without using the natural reader software (control group). The control group simply attended in their ordinary classroom without using natural reader software and participated in instruction programs assigned by the lecturer in the classroom. The experimental group attended in the computer lab and listened to the text as it was read by natural reader software. This study revealed that the Natural Reader software could significantly prove that the students was able to read more accurately and at a more appropriate pace using instruction using natural reader software. By using natural reader software, the student could easily have frequently chances to listen the words read by the native speakers as a reader model at normal speed and repeat the copied reading text up to they were able to read fluently as the reader model read the text.

Speech Recognition Software Contributes to Reading Development for Young Learners of English

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 60-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Reeder ◽  
Jon Shapiro ◽  
Jane Wakefield ◽  
Reg D'Silva
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Speech Recognition ◽  
Reading Fluency ◽  
Oral Reading ◽  
Grade Level ◽  
Oral Reading Fluency ◽  
Classroom Instruction ◽  
Regular Classroom ◽  
Speech Recognition Software ◽  
Reading Tutor

Thirty-six English language learners aged 6;8 to 12;6 years received practice with The Reading Tutor, which uses speech recognition to listen to oral reading and provides context-sensitive feedback. A crossover research design controlled effects of classroom instruction. The first subgroup worked with the software for 3.5 months, and following a week's crossover period, the second subgroup worked for a subsequent 3.5 months. Both groups were assessed to obtain comparable gains both in regular classroom with English as an Additional Language (EAL) support and in the classroom condition with EAL support plus the Reading Tutor. Oral reading fluency was assessed by the DIBELS measure. Fluency was also calculated by the program, and grade level of materials mastered was assessed by the software's logs. Both groups made significant gains in oral reading fluency and grade level of materials mastered, according to measures internal to the software. For one period, gains in fluency following experience with the program appeared to have been slightly larger than gains with regular classroom instruction and EAL support only.

Effects of Reading with Adult Tutor/Therapy Dog Teams on Elementary Students’ Reading Achievement and Attitudes

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward M. Levinson ◽  
Melanee Vogt ◽  
William F. Barker ◽  
Mary Renck Jalongo ◽  
Pat Van Zandt
Keyword(s):  
Reading Fluency ◽  
Oral Reading ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Oral Reading Fluency ◽  
Reading Aloud ◽  
Read Aloud ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Control Group Design ◽  
Therapy Dog ◽  
Post Test

This study assessed the effect of reading aloud to handler/therapy dog teams on children’s oral reading fluency using a post-test control group design with repeated measures. Forty-five children in grades 2-5 were assigned to one of two groups using a stratified random assignment designed to equate groups based on grade and sex. Both groups read aloud for 30 minutes per week for 5 weeks; Group One read with a handler/therapy dog and Group Two read to peers. After 5 weeks, the groups were reversed. Between-group and within-group differences were analyzed. Several statistically significant and large effect sizes were found. Findings generally suggested that reading aloud to an adult/therapy dog team tended to increase children’s scores on a test of oral reading fluency much more than reading aloud to peers. No significant effects were identified on a survey of general attitudes toward reading administered to the children.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Politeness Strategies of Disagreement: The Case of Students of English Education Study Program in one State Islamic University in Sumatera, Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 260-269
Author(s):  
Witria Windika
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Education ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
State University ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Politeness Strategies ◽  
Completion Test ◽  
Written Test

The pupoposes of this study were (1) to find out the realizations of politeness strategies of disagreement by the sixth semester students of English Education students of Islamic State University in Sumatera, and (2) to figure out the most common types of politeness strategy used by them. The study employed qualitative research. The data were taken through a written test and Discourse Completion Test (DCT). The sample was taken by using cluster random sampling method which consisted of 12 male students and 12 female students. The study revealed that female and male English language learners experienced four types of politeness strategy: positive politeness, negative politeness, bald-on-record politeness, and off-record politeness with negative politeness as the most frequent strategy used by female and male English language learners. The result of the study showed that negative politeness was dominant politeness strategy which had value of 63,33%. The second place was bald-on-record (23,33%), the third place was positive politeness  (11,67%), and the last one was off-record (1,67%). The conclusion of this study indicated that in expressing politeness strategy for disagreement, both female and male respondents tended to perform negative politeness strategy.

Impacts of Reading for Ethiopia’s Achievement Developed Community Outreach Project Intervention on Students’ Oral Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, and Academic Achievements

2022 ◽  
pp. 002205742199624
Author(s):  
Sisay Ayalew Tsegaw
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Reading Fluency ◽  
Oral Reading ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Oral Reading Fluency ◽  
Community Outreach ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Academic Achievements ◽  
Project Intervention

The aim of this study was to examine the impact of Reading for Ethiopia’s Achievement Developed Community Outreach (READ CO) project intervention on students’ oral reading fluency, reading comprehension, academic achievements, and listening comprehension. It also aimed at identifying the students and teachers’ awareness and practices about the READ CO project interventions. Experimental research—Posttest-only control group—design was employed for the study, which is mainly quantitative, but also uses qualitative techniques (latent content analysis). The results were analyzed using t tests and econometrics analysis mainly. Questionnaires and observations were also developed and employed as other tools among the experimental group principals and language teachers in the school to investigate the overall practice. The results from quantitative data analysis indicated that there were no statistically significant differences between the posttest performance of the study group and the control group for reading comprehension, academic achievements, and listening comprehension, yet oral reading fluency is significant. The result from questionnaire and observation also showed that the project has not been found to have a positive impact on students reading performance or improvement. Finally, it was mainly recommended that practical training and real service should be given for the targeted schools on how to improve and implement reading practices via the project.

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