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Lindinger, Nadine M.; Jacobson, Sandra W.; Davidson, Landi; Conradie, Simone; Dodge, Neil C.; Molteno, Christopher D.; Meintjes, Ernesta M.; Gaab, Nadine; Jacobson, Joseph L. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2022
Purpose: To date, research on effects of prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) has focused on a broad range of cognitive impairments, but relatively few studies have examined effects of PAE on development of reading skills. Although PAE has been linked to poorer reading comprehension, it remains unclear whether this impairment is attributable to…
Descriptors: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Reading Difficulties, Reading Comprehension, Adolescents
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Feder, Liat; Abu-Rabia, Salim – Journal of Educational Research, 2020
This research examined differences between dyslexic, poor and normal readers who learn in the same educational framework, across various linguistic and meta-linguistic skills in Hebrew as the first language (L1) and English as a foreign language (FL), following an intervention program focusing on English linguistic skills. The participants…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Reading Difficulties, Reading Skills, Semitic Languages
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Tong, Xiuli; Deacon, S. Hélène; Cain, Kate – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2014
Poor comprehenders have intact word-reading skills but struggle specifically with understanding what they read. We investigated whether two metalinguistic skills, morphological and syntactic awareness, are specifically related to poor reading comprehension by including separate and combined measures of each. We identified poor comprehenders…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Syntax, Reading Comprehension, Cues
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Eason, Sarah H.; Sabatini, John; Goldberg, Lindsay; Bruce, Kelly; Cutting, Laurie E. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2013
To further explore contextual reading rate, an important aspect of reading fluency, we examined the relationship between word reading efficiency (WRE) and contextual oral reading rate (ORR), the degree to which they overlap across different comprehension measures, whether oral language (semantics and syntax) predicts ORR beyond contributions of…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Oral Reading, Oral Language, Semantics