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Marks, Rebecca A.; Norton, Rachel T.; Mesite, Laura; Fox, Annie B.; Christodoulou, Joanna A. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Students with language-based learning disabilities (LBLD) can face elevated socio-emotional well-being challenges in addition to literacy challenges. We examined the prevalence of risk and resilience factors among adolescents with LBLD (N = 93), ages 16-18, and the association with reading performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data were…
Descriptors: Risk, Resilience (Psychology), Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities
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Minna Torppa; Tuija Aro; Kenneth Eklund; Rauno Parrila; Anna-Kaija Eloranta; Timo Ahonen – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
This study examines longitudinal associations among reading skills, math skills and emotional well-being in a Finnish sample (n = 586) followed from the end of comprehensive school (Grade 9, age 15-16) to age 20. In particular, we determine whether the associations between skills and well-being are mediated by self-concept beliefs. In Grade 9, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Predictor Variables, Reading Skills
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Tang, Xinzhou; Hua, Zihui; Xing, Jiayin; Yi, Li; Ji, Zhaozheng; Zhao, Liyang; Su, Xing; Yin, Tingni; Wei, Ran; Li, Xue; Liu, Jing – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Verbal fluency tasks have been useful in characterizing the cognitive and language impairments in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, we have a limited understanding of verbal fluency in children and adolescents with comorbid ASD and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The current study investigates whether the…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, Verbal Communication, Language Skills, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Chung, Kevin Kien Hoa; Lam, Chun Bun; Leung, Chloe Oi Ying – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
The present study investigated the executive functioning of working memory, inhibition, shifting, and planning in Chinese adolescent readers with dyslexia and how they related to Chinese (L1) and English (L2) reading comprehension. Fifty-seven Hong Kong Chinese students at Grade 7 were compared with 57 typically developing readers of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 7, Executive Function
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Trapman, Mirjam; van Gelderen, Amos; van Schooten, Erik; Hulstijn, Jan – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
In a longitudinal design, 51 low-achieving adolescents' development in writing proficiency from Grades 7 to 9 was measured. There were 25 native-Dutch and 26 language-minority students. In addition, the roles of (1) linguistic knowledge, (2) metacognitive knowledge, and (3) linguistic fluency in predicting both the level and development of writing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Adolescents, Writing Skills
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McGeown, Sarah P.; Duncan, Lynne G.; Griffiths, Yvonne M.; Stothard, Sue E. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
The present study examines the extent to which adolescents' reading affect (reading motivation) and behaviour (reading habits) predict different components of reading (word reading, comprehension, summarisation and text reading speed) and also adds to the limited research examining group differences (gender, age, ability) in adolescents' reading…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Reading Skills, Reading Motivation, Reading Habits
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Kemp, Nenagh; Wood, Clare; Waldron, Sam – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
There is concern that the violations of conventional grammar (both accidental and deliberate) often seen in text messages (e.g., "hi [smiley face emoticon] how is ya?!!") could lead to difficulty in learning or remembering formal grammatical conventions. We examined whether the grammatical violations made by 244 British children,…
Descriptors: Grammar, Telecommunications, Children, Adolescents
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Rimkute, Laura; Torppa, Minna; Eklund, Kenneth; Nurmi, Jari-Erik; Lyytinen, Heikki – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
The present study examined the role that adolescents' dyslexia plays in their educational expectations, as well as their parents' expectations concerning their offspring's future education. To investigate this, 170 adolescents were asked to report their educational expectations on two occasions while they were still attending…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Adolescents, Expectation, Parent Attitudes
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Lawrence, Joshua Fahey – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
In this study, I used individual growth modeling methods to examine the English word-learning trajectories of adolescent students (N = 278) whose parents speak English at home (n = 210) and those whose parents speak a language other than English (n = 68). Sixth- (n = 130) and seventh-grade (n = 148) students attending an urban middle school took…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Socioeconomic Status, Independent Reading, Vocabulary
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Puranik, Cynthia S.; Lombardino, Linda J.; Altmann, Lori J. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2007
This study was designed to examine differences and similarities in the writing of 15 language-impaired, 17 dyslexic and 15 typically developing control subjects matched on chronological age. Subjects ranging in age from 11 to 21 years were required to produce a written language sample using an expository text-retell procedure. The writing of these…
Descriptors: Written Language, Sentences, Matched Groups, Dyslexia
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Boudreau, Donna – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2002
Details a project in which cognition, language, early literacy, phonological awareness, and reading skills were examined in a group of adolescents and children with Down syndrome and a group of typically developed children match for nonverbal cognition. Concludes that language was a strong predictor in the group with Down syndrome. (PM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Ability, Down Syndrome, Elementary Education