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The Role of Academic-Language Features for Reading Comprehension of Language-Minority Students and Students from Low-SES Families
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Heppt, Birgit; Haag, Nicole; Böhme, Katrin; Stanat, Petra – Reading Research Quarterly, 2015
Academic language is frequently assumed to be especially challenging for students from families of low socioeconomic status (SES) and even more so for language-minority students. Due to their often especially disadvantaged position regarding socioeconomic background and exposure to the language of instruction, language minority students are…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Language Minorities, Minority Group Students, Low Income Groups
Beyond Vocabulary: Exploring Cross-Disciplinary Academic-Language Proficiency and Its Association with Reading Comprehension
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Uccelli, Paola; Galloway, Emily Phillips; Barr, Christopher D.; Meneses, Alejandra; Dobbs, Christina L. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2015
Despite a long-standing awareness of academic language as a pedagogically relevant research area, the construct of academic-language proficiency, understood as a more comprehensive set of skills than just academic vocabulary, has remained vaguely specified. In this study, we explore a more inclusive operationalization of an academic-language…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Language Proficiency, Academic Discourse, Reading Comprehension
Making Sense of Science Texts: A Mixed-Methods Examination of Predictors and Processes of Multiple-Text Comprehension
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Davis, Dennis S.; Huang, Becky; Yi, Tanisha – Reading Research Quarterly, 2017
Previous research has identified various factors that contribute to readers' comprehension of expository texts, including strategy expertise, language proficiency, prior knowledge, and more recently, readers' beliefs about knowledge. This study addresses the need to understand the relative contributions of these predictors to readers'…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Science Materials, Reading Materials, Reading Comprehension
Roles of Attention Shifting and Inhibitory Control in Fourth-Grade Reading Comprehension
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Kieffer, Michael J.; Vukovic, Rose K.; Berry, Daniel – Reading Research Quarterly, 2013
Executive functioning (EF) refers to a set of higher order, core cognitive processes that facilitate planning, problem solving, and the initiation and maintenance of goal-directed behavior. Although recent research has established the importance of EF for word reading development in early childhood, few studies have investigated the role of EF in…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Attention Control
Exploring the Reading-Writing Connection: A Yearlong Classroom-Based Experimental Study of Middle School Students Developing Literacy in a New Language
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Lee, Juhee; Schallert, Diane L. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2016
A yearlong classroom-based intervention was designed to explore the reading-writing connection in second-language literacy by examining whether the development of reading improves writing and vice versa. Middle school learners of English as a foreign language (N = 300) in South Korea were assigned to three treatments that involved extensive…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Reading Writing Relationship, Literacy, Literacy Education
Language Proficiency and Reading Ability in First- and Second-Language Learners.
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Droop, Mienke; Verhoeven, Ludo – Reading Research Quarterly, 2003
Uses structural equation modeling to investigate the development of and interrelations between the language proficiencies and reading abilities of children learning to read a first or second language. Compares the reading-comprehension, word-decoding, and oral-language skills of Dutch and minority third and fourth grade students. Shows oral…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Dutch, Elementary Education, Grade 3