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Mustafa Kocaarslan; Büsra Özdemi?r Kesgin – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Executive functions are one of the most prominent research topics investigated in explaining reading skills, which involve complex cognitive processes. In this study, a bibliometric analysis of articles on executive functions and reading in the field of education was conducted. In the study, 42 articles published between 2012 and 2024 were…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Executive Function, Reading Processes, Educational Research
Jana Chi-san Ho; Deborah K. Reed; Catherine McBride – Annals of Dyslexia, 2025
In this study, we examined to what extent orthographic skills, phonological processing, oral vocabulary, and word memory accounted for variance in reading comprehension among upper-elementary school children with and without dyslexia. The tasks came from the Tests of Dyslexia (TOD). Data from 753 participants (typically developing n = 575;…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Dyslexia, Phonological Awareness, Oral Language
Solís-Campos, Adrián; Aldemir, Hülya; Rodríguez-Ortiz, Isabel R.; Saldaña, David – Deafness & Education International, 2023
Executive functions have both direct and indirect effects on reading comprehension. Previous studies have shown that people with hearing loss (HL) perform poorly on executive functions and reading comprehension tasks. This scoping review explored the current state of the literature relating executive function and reading comprehension in children…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Reading Comprehension, Hearing Impairments, Children
Zou, Zhenfei; Zhao, Wei; Li, Miao – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
This study investigated executive function deficits among Chinese primary school children with word reading deficit and specific reading comprehension deficit. Working memory, inhibitory control, and cognitive flexibility were examined among children with Word Reading Deficit (WRD), children with Specific Reading Comprehension Deficit (S-RCD) and…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Foreign Countries, Children, Reading Difficulties
Wenxiu Zhang; Peng Peng; Chanjuan Peng; Liang Zhang; Yan Wang – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
This study aimed to investigate the meta-linguistic and executive function profile for different subtypes of reading difficulties (RD) among upper-elementary students. Based on 1,112 third- to fifth-grade Chinese-speaking children, we identified 72 with decoding difficulties (DD), 74 with comprehension difficulties (CD), and 29…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Executive Function, Profiles, Children
Gray, Christina D.; Shafer, Daniel M. – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2022
This study investigated the effect of humor in religious stories on a child's ability to remember, understand, and paraphrase content, as well as on enjoyment. Ages of the children were also considered. Participants watched one of two videos teaching the story of Saul's conversion found in Acts 9:1-22. Although inclusion of humor did not have a…
Descriptors: Humor, Memory, Reading Comprehension, Biblical Literature
Babayigit, Selma; Hitch, Graham J.; Kandru-Pothineni, Swathi; Clarke, Annie; Warmington, Meesha – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
Previous research reported bilingual cognitive strengths in working memory, executive function and novel-word learning skills (Bialystok in Psychol Bull 143:233-262, 2017; Kaushanskaya and Marian in Psychon Bull Rev 16:705-710, 2009). These skills should also support bilingual children's vocabulary and reading development, yet bilingual children…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Reading Comprehension, Cognitive Ability, Children
Luoni, Chiara; Scorza, Maristella; Stefanelli, Silvia; Fagiolini, Barbara; Termine, Cristiano – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2023
Developmental dyscalculia (DD) has long been thought to be determined by multiple components. Dyscalculia has high comorbidity with other learning and developmental disabilities, including reading and writing disorders, attention deficits, and problems in visual/spatial skills, short memory, and working memory. This study aims to assess prevalence…
Descriptors: Developmental Delays, Learning Disabilities, Mathematics Skills, Comorbidity
Davidson, Meghan M.; Fleming, Kandace K. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
Visual, as compared to verbal, tasks are often assumed to be easier for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but is this true for story comprehension? This study evaluated story comprehension monitoring across visual, listening, and written modalities and assessed predictors in two closely matched groups (age, socioeconomic status,…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Visual Perception, Comprehension, Story Reading
Jones, Jonathan S.; Milton, Fraser; Mostazir, Mohammod; Adlam, Anna R. – Developmental Science, 2020
Working memory training has been shown to improve performance on untrained working memory tasks in typically developing children, at least when compared to non-adaptive training; however, there is little evidence that it improves academic outcomes. The lack of transfer to academic outcomes may be because children are only learning skills and…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Short Term Memory, Metacognition, Learning Strategies
Oakhill, Jane – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
A substantial amount of research has focused on children's reading development and reading problems, but in comparison there has been relatively little research into children's reading comprehension. This article provides an overview of the research that has investigated the skills and cognitive processes that support children's understanding of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Reading Research, Reading Comprehension, Children
Lin, Xin; Peng, Peng; Luo, Hongjing – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2021
The purpose of the study was to compare the deficit profiles of two important types of mathematics difficulties. Three cognitive measures (working memory, processing speed, and reasoning), two mathematics measures (numerical facts retrieval and mathematics vocabulary), and reading comprehension were assessed among 237 Chinese fourth-grade…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Children, Learning Problems
Mervis, Carolyn B.; Greiner de Magalhães, Caroline; Cardoso-Martins, Cláudia – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
We examined the cognitive, language, and instructional factors associated with reading ability in Williams syndrome (WS). Seventy 9-year-olds with WS completed standardized measures of real-word reading, pseudoword decoding, reading comprehension, phonological skills, listening comprehension, nonverbal reasoning, visual-spatial ability, verbal…
Descriptors: Genetic Disorders, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, Decoding (Reading)
Oktay, Ayla; Dogan, Handan; Özcan, Zeynep Çigdem; Dönmez, Özlem; Özdemir, Hamdi – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2021
The aim of this study is to investigate the academic success, self-efficacy and psychological resilience of sixth-grade students who started primary school in different age groups and who were followed up longitudinally. The study group of this research consisted of a total of 485 students, 73 of whom were longitudinally trained in the sixth…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Self Efficacy, Resilience (Psychology), Elementary School Students
Bizama Muñoz, Marcela; Saldaño Silva, Darling; Rodríguez Rodríguez, Cristina – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2019
Introduction: Existing studies of the variables that can impact reading comprehension at intermediate levels of Primary Education are not entirely conclusive. The present study analyzes the contribution to reading comprehension made by domain-general skills, such as fluid intelligence (Gf) and working memory (WM), and domain-specific skills, such…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Children