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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
Mark Feng Teng; Yachong Cui – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2025
A growing number of studies have focused on uncovering linguistic and cognitive skills predictive of reading comprehension. Vocabulary knowledge (VK) and morphological awareness (MA) are two important linguistic variables for reading comprehension. In contrast, working memory (WM) is an essential cognitive variable for reading comprehension. The…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary, Morphology (Languages), Short Term Memory
Cynthia Puranik; Hongli Li; Ying Guo – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the direct and indirect relations between short-term memory (STM), reading, oral language, and writing at the letter, word, and discourse levels in young, developing writers both cross-sectionally and longitudinally. Method: Participants were 449 English-speaking kindergarten students (52% female)…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Oral Language, Vocabulary, Alphabets
Kevin Chan; Pui-sze Yeung; Kevin Kien Hoa Chung – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
Foreign language anxiety has influenced reading achievement in English as a second language learning (ESL). However, less is known about how foreign language anxiety affects Chinese students learning English as L2 and the interplay between foreign language anxiety and cognitive-linguistic factors on L2 reading performance. This longitudinal study…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Anxiety, Word Recognition, English (Second Language)
Poulsen, Mads; Nielsen, Jessie Leigh; Vang Christensen, Rikke – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Recent studies have found correlations between sentence-level tests and reading comprehension. However, the task demands of sentence-level tests are not well understood. The present study investigated syntactic knowledge as a construct by examining the convergent and discriminant validity of two sentence-level tasks, sentence comprehension and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Sentences, Syntax, Repetition
Talwar, Amani; Greenberg, Daphne; Li, Hongli – Grantee Submission, 2018
This study explored the relations between reading comprehension and two memory capacities, short-term memory (STM) and working memory (WM), for adults who read between the third and eighth grade levels. With a sample of 407 adults from two countries, we computed correlations among measures and conducted hierarchical regression and commonality…
Descriptors: Memory, Reading Comprehension, Adults, Reading Difficulties
Mechanisms by Which Morphological Awareness Contributes to Chinese and English Reading Comprehension
Qiao, Shen; Liu, Yingyi; Yeung, Susanna Siu-sze – Journal of Research in Reading, 2021
Background: Research has established the link between morphological awareness and reading comprehension. However, the theoretical mechanisms underlying the association remain unclear. This study examined the direct and indirect effects of morphological awareness on reading comprehension in L1 Chinese and L2 English, with a sample of Chinese…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Reading Comprehension, Chinese, English (Second Language)
Ibrahim A. Asadi; Nisreen Atila; Sandy Saleh – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2024
Due to the diglossic nature of the Arabic language, Arabic-speaking children enter their first year of school with immaturity in literary language and word representations in their mental lexicon. This study examined the effects of interactive story reading in kindergarten on future reading skills and whether this effect can be generalized to…
Descriptors: Arabic, Bilingualism, Story Reading, Kindergarten
Tonini, Elisabetta; Lecce, Serena; Del Sette, Paola; Bianco, Federica; Canal, Paolo; Bambini, Valentina – First Language, 2022
Although metaphors are essential tools in everyday communication and educational settings, the literature lacks evidence of effective training tools to promote metaphor comprehension in typical development. Grounding in theoretical pragmatics, we developed a novel metaphor comprehension training (MetaCom) for school-age children that focuses on…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Language Processing, Transfer of Training, Reading Comprehension
Pretorius, Melissa J.; le Roux, Mia; Geertsema, Salomé – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2022
This study investigated the correlation and predictive capacity of verbal working memory (VWM) to the reading comprehension of children in their first language (L1) and second language (L2). The term verbal working memory refers to a cognitive system with a limited capacity that can hold and manipulate verbal and auditory information temporarily.…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Verbal Communication, Reading Comprehension, Correlation
Kim, Young-Suk Grace – Grantee Submission, 2021
We examined the relations of inference, vocabulary, decoding, short-term memory, and attentional control to reading comprehension and mathematics performance for first-grade students in the US (N = 83). The students were composed of 75% Hispanics, 15% Whites, and 6% Asian Americans. Students' performance on mathematics and reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Inferences, Attention Control, Reading Comprehension, Mathematics Skills
Fraser, Christie; Pasquarella, Adrian; Geva, Esther; Gottardo, Alexandra; Biemiller, Andrew – Language Learning, 2021
Conjunctions facilitate text cohesion and comprehension by making explicit the logical relationships between ideas in written language. Conjunctions may be challenging for English language learners (ELLs) because of their novel, abstract, and text-connecting role. In this longitudinal study we aimed to clarify the connections among comprehension…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary, Connected Discourse
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
Wolf, M. C.; Muijselaar, M. M. L.; Boonstra, A. M.; de Bree, E. H. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
This study aimed to increase our understanding on the relationship between reading and listening comprehension. Both in comprehension theory and in educational practice, reading and listening comprehension are often seen as interchangeable, overlooking modality-specific aspects of them separately. Three questions were addressed. First, it was…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Reading Skills, Listening Skills
Mottarella, Malayka; Yamasaki, Brianna L.; Prat, Chantel S. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
Individual differences in reading skill have frequently been related to variability in working memory capacity; however, it is unclear what drives this relation. The present study investigated two attentional control mechanisms that may contribute to this relation: proactive control and online filtering. To examine how the neural mechanisms of…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Short Term Memory, Vocabulary Skills, Correlation