skilled reader
collocation in Englishmeaningsofskilledandreader
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skilled
adjective
uk/skɪld/us/skɪld/
having the abilities needed to do an activity or ...
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reader
noun[C]
uk/ˈriː.dər/us/ˈriː.dɚ/
someone who reads for pleasure, especially a person who reads ...
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(Definition ofskilledandreaderfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofskilled reader
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Consequently, askilledreaderneeds some strategy besides either rote memorization or guessing to ensure that these crucial less frequent words are recognized correctly.
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So what happens cognitively when askilledreaderrecognizes a printed word?
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In the lessskilledreadergroup, there were 6 who were 9 - 10 years old and 7 who were 11 - 13 years old.
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In theskilledreadergroup, there were 25 who were 9 - 10 years old and 42 who were 11 - 13 years old.
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Theskilledreaderemployed strategies of inferencing, summarisation and synthesis during and after reading, while the less-skilled reader applied bridging inferences, paraphrasing and repetition.
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Thus, for example, a lessskilledreadermay read relatively fast, but with poor phrasing or unnatural prosody.
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Contrasting the less skilled with the skilled readers indicated that, in theskilledreadergroups, bilingual children were more proficient in phonological skills than monolingual children.
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If a reformed orthography spelt all homophones the same, that particular problem might be solved for computers - at the price of increased ambiguity for theskilledreader.
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Recent neuroimaging research strongly suggests that cortical processing of initial reading is qualitatively different from processes that take place in the brain of askilledreader.
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When generating a given word became automated with practice, the same circuit was used as when skilled readers read words aloud.
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Increased phonological similarity of short phrases also differentiates skilled from less skilled readers.
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Visual-feature and response components in a pictureword interference task with beginning and skilled readers.
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We were also interested in the effect of inaccuracies in naming on spelling performance, particularly for the less skilled readers.
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However, such a strategy is not necessarily natural for all skilled readers.
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In our own experience, variability in spelling has also occurred for the adult less skilled readers we have studied.
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These children were matched on chronological age with the target group and were also divided into skilled or less skilled readers.
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At this point, one may ask why the bilingual less skilled readers should be superior to the monolingual less skilled readers.
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As observed for skilled children and adults, word frequency and word length influence the accuracy of naming for less skilled readers.
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