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Roles of Morphological Awareness in the Reading Comprehension of Spanish-Speaking Language Minority Learners: Exploring Partial Mediation by Vocabulary and Reading Fluency
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Kieffer, Michael J.; Biancarosa, Gina; Mancilla-Martinez, Jeannette – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2013
This study investigated the direct and indirect roles of morphological awareness reading comprehension for Spanish-speaking language minority learners reading in English. Multivariate path analysis was used to investigate the unique contribution of derivational morphological awareness to reading comprehension as well as its indirect contributions…
Descriptors: Role, Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension
Sentence Comprehension Limitations Related to Syntactic Deficits in Reading-Disabled Children.
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Stein, Cecile L.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1984
Describes a study in which 20 reading-disabled children, ages 7-10, were compared with 20 nondisabled readers in the same age range as to their ability to interpret complex sentences. Results showed that the nondisabled readers performed at higher levels of grammatical development than did the reading-impaired children. (SED)
Descriptors: Children, Learning Disabilities, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
Phonological Recoding and Reading Acquisition.
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Form, Anthony J.; Share, David L. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1983
Two roles for phonological recoding, as a back-up mechanism used when visual word identification fails and as a self-teaching mechanism for visual word identification, are examined in view of research findings on development of reading comprehension and on the relationship of reading disabilities and phonological processing deficits. Teaching…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Phonology, Reading Comprehension
Deaf Readers' Comprehension of Relative Clause Structure.
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Diane C. Lillo-Martin; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1992
Testing of deaf readers' comprehension of relative clause structures in written English, signed English, and American Sign Language suggests that a specific syntactic disability does not differentiate good from poor deaf readers, but rather a processing deficit may underlie poor readers' comprehension difficulties. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Deafness, English, Phrase Structure
Comprehension Process of Second Language Indirect Requests.
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Takahashi, Satomi; Roitblat, Herbert L. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1994
Examines the comprehension of English conventional indirect requests by native English speakers and Japanese learners of English. Subjects read stories inducing either a conventional or a literal interpretation of a priming sentence. Results suggest that both native and nonnative speakers process both meanings of an ambiguous conventional request.…
Descriptors: College Students, English, English (Second Language), Measures (Individuals)
The Contribution of Phonological and Orthographic Processing Skills to Adult ESL Reading: Evidence from Native Speakers of Farsi.
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Nassaji, Hossein; Geva, Esther – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1999
Investigated the role of phonological and orthographic processing skills in second-language reading of 60 native-Farsi-speaking English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) graduate students. Three types of ESL reading variables were used: reading and comprehension, silent reading rate, and ability to recognize individual words. Efficiency in phonological…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Graduate Students, Higher Education, Individual Differences