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Haluk O. Öngören; Anna Volodina – Reading Psychology, 2024
Academic language and its associations with school success have been established in many prior studies. However, the scholarship lacks research on the mechanisms that constitute these relations. This study investigates the mediating role of motivational-­affective variables, specifically reading self-concept and reading enjoyment, in relations…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Reading Comprehension, Self Concept, Reading Attitudes
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Pretorius, Melissa J.; le Roux, Mia; Geertsema, Salomé – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2022
This study investigated the correlation and predictive capacity of verbal working memory (VWM) to the reading comprehension of children in their first language (L1) and second language (L2). The term verbal working memory refers to a cognitive system with a limited capacity that can hold and manipulate verbal and auditory information temporarily.…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Verbal Communication, Reading Comprehension, Correlation