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Amir Mahshanian; Mohammadtaghi Shahnazari; Ahmad Moinzadeh – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2025
This study investigated the relationship between working memory (WM), semantic-encoding (SE) ability, and reading comprehension (RC) within the domain of second language acquisition (L2). 120 L1-Persian EFL learners were placed in three proficiency groups (beginning, intermediate, and advanced) based on their scores on the IELTS test. The…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Semantics, Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning
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Eunsoo Cho; Unhee Ju; Eun Ha Kim; Minhye Lee; Garam Lee; Donald L. Compton – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2023
Purpose: We examined the extent to which achievement goals predict reading comprehension, measured by two response formats (free recall and constructed response), and how these relations differ for students with and without reading difficulties (RD). We further explored how executive functions (working memory and semantic verbal fluency) mediate…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Goal Orientation, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
Eunsoo Cho; Unhee Ju; Eun Ha Kim; Minhye Lee; Garam Lee; Donald L. Compton – Grantee Submission, 2022
Purpose: We examined the extent to which achievement goals predict reading comprehension, measured by two response formats (free recall and constructed response), and how these relations differ for students with and without reading difficulties (RD). We further explored how executive functions (working memory and semantic verbal fluency) mediate…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Goal Orientation, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
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Swart, Nicole M.; Muijselaar, Marloes M. L.; Steenbeek-Planting, Esther G.; Droop, Mienke; de Jong, Peter F.; Verhoeven, L. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
The mental lexicon plays a central role in reading comprehension (Perfetti & Stafura, 2014). It encompasses the number of lexical entries in spoken and written language (vocabulary breadth), the semantic quality of these entries (vocabulary depth), and the connection strength between lexical representations (semantic relatedness); as such, it…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Grade 4, Predictor Variables, Semantics
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Kucer, Stephen B. – Reading Psychology, 2016
This research explores the impact of accuracy and meaning maintaining miscues on the comprehension of complex texts. The issue is explored through fourth graders' readings and retellings. Two types of reading behaviors are examined: (a) portions of text read with no miscues, and (b) portions of text read with meaning-maintaining miscues. Findings…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Miscue Analysis, Scientific Literacy, Reading Comprehension
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Akinwumi, Julius Olaitan – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
The purpose of this study was to find out the effects of gender and school location on the Ekiti State secondary school students achievement in reading comprehension in English language. The study adopted pre-test, post-test and control quasi-experimental research using two experimental groups and one control group. The sample for the study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Gender Differences, School Location
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Michener, Catherine J.; Patrick Proctor, C.; Silverman, Rebecca D. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
Increasingly, reading research has begun to address how students' linguistic environments may explain their reading achievement. In this exploratory analysis, we investigated how the rates of specific instructional talk moves predicted student reading comprehension achievement. Transcripts from third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade classrooms (teacher…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension, Grade 3, Grade 4
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Jozwik, Sara L.; Douglas, Karen H. – Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2016
This study examined how explicit instruction in semantic ambiguity detection affected the reading comprehension and metalinguistic awareness of five English learners (ELs) with learning difficulties (e.g., attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, specific learning disability). A multiple probe across participants design (Gast & Ledford, 2010)…
Descriptors: Semantics, Ambiguity (Semantics), Identification, Training
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Conradi, Kristin; Amendum, Steven J.; Liebfreund, Meghan D. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2016
This study examined the contributions of decoding, language, spelling, and motivation to the reading comprehension of elementary school readers in a high-poverty setting. Specifically, the research questions addressed whether and how the influences of word reading efficiency, semantic knowledge, reading self-concept, and spelling on reading…
Descriptors: Poverty, Reading, Reading Instruction, Reading Comprehension
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Brown, Joel; Kim, Koomi; Ramirez, Kathleen O'Brien – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2012
This article examines how a second-grader demonstrates that reading is not about decoding letters and words in linear order but is a more complex activity involving the reader's decisions with respect to several aspects of their knowledge of their language and how comprehension is key to transacting with texts. The paper observes and documents the…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Low Achievement, Reading Achievement, Scores
National Institute for Literacy, 2010
Students need a strong foundation in reading, writing, math, and numeracy to be successful in GED preparation, in work readiness programs, and in post-secondary education and training. The resources in the Basic Skills Collection that will assist in providing this foundation include research articles, materials and curriculum based on research,…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Job Skills, Literacy, Postsecondary Education
Technical Assistance ALLIANCE for Parent Centers, 2007
In order to be a good reader, your child must be able to do two things at the same time: (1) decode the words on the page and (2) understand what the words mean. Early reading instruction focuses on teaching a child how to read single words. But being good at reading single words is not the only skill your child needs. Once your child has become…
Descriptors: Sentences, Early Reading, Reading Skills, Reading Instruction
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Kato, Tsuguhiko; Manning, Maryann – Childhood Education, 2007
The perceived crisis in reading achievement may be misplaced--the real crisis may be what is ignored in the curriculum. People are alarmed at the lack of emphasis being placed on teaching content knowledge in many of today's classrooms. They laugh when Jay Leno takes to the street, interviewing teenagers and young adults who do not have the…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Young Adults, Reading Achievement, National Competency Tests
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Wilbur, Ronnie; And Others – Volta Review, 1989
Severely hearing-impaired students (n=187, ages 7-23) at eight reading levels were evaluated to determine their ability to comprehend common English modals. Although subjects' modal comprehension improved with reading level, subjects at the highest reading levels did not demonstrate complete mastery of modals. Modals tended to be acquired in a…
Descriptors: Deafness, Difficulty Level, Elementary Secondary Education, Predictor Variables
Wheat, Thomas E.; Edmond, Rose Mary – 1974
This paper explores and discusses the concept of reading comprehension from two major perspectives. One perspective is based on the theory that reading comprehension constitutes a pattern of skills. The other perspective is based on a psycholinguistic view of reading: reading as a language process. Strategies for gaining comprehension during…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Psycholinguistics, Reading, Reading Ability
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