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Capodieci, Agnese; Zamperlin, Claudia; Friso, Gianna; Carretti, Barbara – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2021
It has been well documented that oral language skills are precursors of the development of written abilities, meaning that improving oral language skills, e.g. vocabulary, listening comprehension, could have positive effects reading comprehension. The main aim of the present study was to analyze the effect of a training program focused on four…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
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Carretti, Barbara; Toffalini, Enrico; Saponaro, Cosmiana; Viola, Francesco; Cornoldi, Cesare – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Background: Reading can be assessed using different materials, including non-words and texts. Unlike reading words or non-words, reading a text may be supported by reading comprehension, and the extent of this support could change with the amount of schooling. Aim: The present study aimed to examine how reading decoding in a shallow orthography…
Descriptors: Reading Rate, Reading Comprehension, Decoding (Reading), Italian
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Tobia, Valentina; Ciancaleoni, Matteo; Bonifacci, Paola – Language Testing, 2017
In this study, two alternative theoretical models were compared, in order to analyze which of them best explains primary school children's text comprehension skills. The first one was based on the distinction between two types of answers requested by the comprehension test: local or global. The second model involved texts' input modality: written…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Language Tests, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
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Carretti, Barbara; Motta, Eleonora; Re, Anna Maria – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2016
Several studies have highlighted that children with reading comprehension difficulties also have problems in tasks that involve telling a story, in writing or verbally. The main differences identified regard poor comprehenders' lower level of coherence in their productions by comparison with good comprehenders. Only one study has compared poor and…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Written Language, Expressive Language, Reading Comprehension
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Chiara Levorato, Maria; Nesi, Barbara; Cacciari, Cristina – Brain and Language, 2004
The aim of the present study was to investigate idiom comprehension in school-age Italian children with different reading comprehension skills. According to our hypothesis, the level of a child's text comprehension skills should predict his/her ability to understand idiomatic meanings. Idiom comprehension in fact requires children to go beyond a…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 4, Language Patterns, Figurative Language