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Talwar, Amani; Greenberg, Daphne; Tighe, Elizabeth L.; Li, Hongli – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Research with school-age readers suggests that the contributions of reading and language skills vary across reading comprehension assessments and proficiency levels. With a sample of 168 struggling adult readers, we estimated the explanatory effects of decoding, oral vocabulary, listening comprehension, fluency, background knowledge, and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Language Skills, Reading Difficulties
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Braze, David; Katz, Leonard; Magnuson, James S.; Mencl, W. Einar; Tabor, Whitney; Van Dyke, Julie A.; Gong, Tao; Johns, Clinton L.; Shankweiler, Donald P. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
Gough and Tunmer's (1986) simple view of reading (SVR) proposed that reading comprehension (RC) is a function of language comprehension (LC) and word recognition/decoding. Braze et al. (2007) presented data suggesting an extension of the SVR in which knowledge of vocabulary (V) affected RC over and above the effects of LC. Tunmer and Chapman…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Structural Equation Models, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension