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Sparks, Richard L.; Luebbers, Julie – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2018
Conventional wisdom suggests that students classified as learning disabled will exhibit difficulties with foreign language (FL) learning, but evidence has not supported a relationship between FL learning problems and learning disabilities. The simple view of reading model posits that reading comprehension is the product of word decoding and…
Descriptors: High School Students, Reading Difficulties, Learning Disabilities, Reading Comprehension
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Tighe, Elizabeth L.; Schatschneider, Christopher – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2016
The current study employed a meta-analytic approach to investigate the relative importance of component reading skills to reading comprehension in struggling adult readers. A total of 10 component skills were consistently identified across 16 independent studies and 2,707 participants. Random effects models generated 76 predictor-reading…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Reading Skills, Adults, Reading Difficulties