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Sisi Liu; Ning Li; Xinyong Zhang; Li-Chih Angus Wang; Duo Liu – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
To investigate the longitudinal effects of two domain-general cognitive abilities, namely verbal working memory and visual search skill, on Chinese reading comprehension. To evaluate whether decoding and linguistic comprehension mediate such effects. A total of 202 first-grade Chinese-speaking children from mainland China (M[subscript]age =…
Descriptors: Chinese, Reading Comprehension, Short Term Memory, Grade 1
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Victoria Kishchak; Anna Ewert; Paulina Halczak; Pawel Kleka; Marcin Szczerbinski – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
RAN (Rapid Automatized Naming) is known to be a robust predictor of reading development in different languages. Much less is known about RAN predictive power in bilingual contexts. This is the first meta-analysis of research with bilingual children, assessing the strength of the RAN-reading relationship both within and across languages. It also…
Descriptors: Automation, Naming, Meta Analysis, Bilingualism
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Fischbach, Anne; Könen, Tanja; Rietz, Chantal S.; Hasselhorn, Marcus – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
The goals of this study were to explore the deficits in working memory associated with literacy disorders (i.e. developmental disorders of reading and/or spelling) and the developmental trajectories of these working memory deficits. The performance of 28 children with literacy disorders was compared to a non-disabled control group with the same…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Longitudinal Studies, Executive Function, Literacy