Neuroplasticity-based Cognitive and Linguistic Skills Training Improves Reading and Writing Skills in College Students
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 cogn...
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| description | 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 listening and higher level reading tasks. Twenty-five college students (12 native English language; 13 English Second Language) who demonstrated poor writing skills participated in the training group. The training group received daily training during the spring semester (11 weeks) with the Fast ForWord Literacy (FFW-L) and upper levels of the Fast ForWord Reading series (Levels 3, 4 and 5). The comparison group (n=28) selected from the general college population did not receive training. Both the training and comparison groups attended the same university. All students took the Gates MacGinitie Reading Test (GMRT) and the Oral and Written Language Scales (OWLS) Written Expression Scale at the beginning (Time 1) and end (Time 2) of the spring college semester. Results from this study showed that the training group made a statistically greater improvement from Time 1 to Time 2 in both their reading skills and their writing skills than the comparison group. The group who received training began with statistically lower writing skills before training, but exceeded the writing skills of the comparison group after training. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fb50b53df56d4c0094c72ca3e801ea942022-12-21T23:55:38ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782013-03-01410.3389/fpsyg.2013.0013740871Neuroplasticity-based Cognitive and Linguistic Skills Training Improves Reading and Writing Skills in College StudentsBeth eRogowsky0Pericles ePapamichalis1Laura eVilla2Sabine eHeim3Paula eTallal4Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers UniversityCenter for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers UniversityCenter for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers UniversityCenter for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers UniversityCenter for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers UniversityThis 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 listening and higher level reading tasks. Twenty-five college students (12 native English language; 13 English Second Language) who demonstrated poor writing skills participated in the training group. The training group received daily training during the spring semester (11 weeks) with the Fast ForWord Literacy (FFW-L) and upper levels of the Fast ForWord Reading series (Levels 3, 4 and 5). The comparison group (n=28) selected from the general college population did not receive training. Both the training and comparison groups attended the same university. All students took the Gates MacGinitie Reading Test (GMRT) and the Oral and Written Language Scales (OWLS) Written Expression Scale at the beginning (Time 1) and end (Time 2) of the spring college semester. Results from this study showed that the training group made a statistically greater improvement from Time 1 to Time 2 in both their reading skills and their writing skills than the comparison group. The group who received training began with statistically lower writing skills before training, but exceeded the writing skills of the comparison group after training.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00137/fullLanguageWritingneuroplasticityreadingcomputer-based instructioncognitive skills training |
| spellingShingle | Beth eRogowsky Pericles ePapamichalis Laura eVilla Sabine eHeim Paula eTallal Neuroplasticity-based Cognitive and Linguistic Skills Training Improves Reading and Writing Skills in College Students Frontiers in Psychology Language Writing neuroplasticity reading computer-based instruction cognitive skills training |
| title | Neuroplasticity-based Cognitive and Linguistic Skills Training Improves Reading and Writing Skills in College Students |
| title_full | Neuroplasticity-based Cognitive and Linguistic Skills Training Improves Reading and Writing Skills in College Students |
| title_fullStr | Neuroplasticity-based Cognitive and Linguistic Skills Training Improves Reading and Writing Skills in College Students |
| title_full_unstemmed | Neuroplasticity-based Cognitive and Linguistic Skills Training Improves Reading and Writing Skills in College Students |
| title_short | Neuroplasticity-based Cognitive and Linguistic Skills Training Improves Reading and Writing Skills in College Students |
| title_sort | neuroplasticity based cognitive and linguistic skills training improves reading and writing skills in college students |
| topic | Language Writing neuroplasticity reading computer-based instruction cognitive skills training |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00137/full |
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