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Direct linkCain, Kate; Oakhill, Jane; Lemmon, Kate – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2004
Two studies investigated the ability to use contextual information in stories to infer the meanings of novel vocabulary by 9-10-year-olds with good and poor reading comprehension. Across studies, children with poor reading comprehension were impaired when the processing demands of the task were greatest. In Study 2, working memory capacity was…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Short Term Memory, Reading Comprehension, Individual Differences
