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ills such as chess playing andis particularly susceptible to the effects of Alzheimer’s disease1.The visuospatial sketchpad is used in the temporary storage and is used tomanipulate visual images and spatial information, such as remembering shapes andcolors, or the location or speed of objects in space. It is also involved in tasks whichinvolve planning of spatial movements, like planning one’s way through a complexbuilding. Briefly VS can be divided into separate visual, spatial and possiblykinesthetic (movement) components. It is principally represented within the righthemisphere of the brain (Baddeley, 2000).

Chapter 3 Research Methodology......... 48-57
    3.1 Research Questions........ 48
    3.2 Research Design........ 48-57
        3.2.1 Participants........48-49
        3.2.2 Instruments........ 49-51
        3.2.3 Procedures ........51-55
        3.2.4 Data Collection........ 55-57
Chapter 4 Results and Discussion ........57-71
    4.1 Analysis of the Questionnaire........ 57-59
        4.1.1 Reliability of the Questionnaire........57-58
        4.1.2 Results of the Questionnaire ........58-59
    4.2 Analysis of Tests........ 59-68
    4.3 Discussion of the Results........ 68-71
        4.3.1 Discussion of the Questionnaire........ 68-69
        4.3.2 Discussion of the Tests........ 69-71
Chapter 5 Conclusion........ 71-75
    5.1 Main Findings ........71-72
    5.2 Pedagogical Implications ........72-73
5.3 Limitations of Present Research........ 73-75

Conclusion

Although this study was fulfilled according to the design, which still has somelimitations.
Firstly, this experiment was carried out on the students whose majors are artdesign, and whose English levels are lower before they came to college. So it is still a question whether the conclusions drawn from this thesis can fit other major students.
Secondly, this study has not coped with the subjects’ gender, age, and intelligentlevels, the affective factors of personality, motivation, interests, backgroundknowledge and other factors in teaching process, which are also of great influence onstudents’ working memory capacity and reading ability. To get a more reliable result,other researchers need to select randomly a larger sample and pay much moreattention to factors of individual differences.
Thirdly, in this thesis, reading comprehension is discussed from working memoryperspective. Although comprehension is widely used in all aspects of reading, here itis used in a more specific sense. It is used just in the classroom teaching and learning,not the consequences of reading real literature and documents and so on.
Fourthly, despite its popularity, there are still some disadvantages of reading spantest. First, the score range of the reading span test is narrow. The working memorycapacity may be easily at floor so that it can’t correctly reflect the individualdifferen本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。