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Joseph Hin Yan Lam, Jiali Wang, Amy S. Pratt, Elizabeth D. Peña
1.1.### Theories of reading comprehension Reading comprehension is a complex and multidimensional construct. There has been a preference towards parsimonious models of reading such as The Simple View of Reading (SVR; ; ) which describes variability in reading comprehension across two component skills: decoding (or the…
Maksim Markevich, Anastasiia Streltsova, Daniela Zambarbieri
Successful reading comprehension depends on many factors, including text genre. Eye-tracking studies indicate that genre shapes eye movement patterns at a local level. Although the reading of expository and narrative texts by adolescents has been described in the literature, the reading of poetry by adolescents remains…
Apostolos Kargiotidis, George Manolitsis, Diamanto N. Filippatou
The present longitudinal retrospective study examined in a sample of 123 Greek-speaking children whether the raw score growth in a broad range of oral language and reading skills from Grade 1 to Grade 3 differs among children with persistent reading comprehension difficulties (pRCD; N = 49) identified in Grade 3, those…
Miho Fuyama, Rosario Lo Franco
When reading a novel or poem, readers sometimes gain comprehension or experiences that cannot be expressed in language yet are felt as holistic. Previous studies focused on the linguistically expressible aspects of text comprehension. In this study, we propose a new hypothesis, the purification comprehension…
Miranda-Espinoza Jonathan Eduardo, Contreras-Saavedra Carla Elizabeth, María Jesús Sánchez-Cortés
1## Introduction Reading comprehension is a key competence in the academic and professional training of higher education students, since it allows them to access, process, interpret and critically evaluate information from various textual sources, especially in the framework of disciplinary studies. This skill is…
Scott Crossley, Joon Suh Choi, Kenny Tang, Laurie Cutting
This study documents and assesses the Tool for Automatic Analysis of Decoding Ambiguity (TAADA). TAADA calculates measures related to decoding, including metrics for grapheme and phoneme counts, neighborhood effects, rhymes, and conditional probabilities for sound-spelling relationships. These measures are assessed in…
Qiuzhi Xie, Susanna Siu-Sze Yeung, Ramandeep Kaur
It remains unclear as to how vocabulary contributes to reading comprehension in a second language (L2). This study aims to explore the specific roles of vocabulary in reading comprehension in children learning English as an L2 based on three theoretical perspectives. Namely, whether vocabulary should be considered as a…
Bahaa Madi Tarabya, Asaid Khateb
While research on the predictors of reading and reading comprehension is extensive in child and in some adult populations, particularly in alphabetic languages, few studies have examined such factors among Arabic-speaking adults. This study examined the extent to which the same linguistic and cognitive predictors…
Caterina Artuso, Carmen Belacchi
In this study, we investigated the contribution of verbal working memory (WM) and semantic organization resources in poor and good reading comprehenders (age range: 7.5-11 years). From an initial sample of 151 children, 20 poor and 18 good reading comprehenders were selected and administered a battery of WM tasks…
Diamanto Filippatou, Panagiota Dimitropoulou, Elisavet Chrysochoou, Asimina M. Ralli + 1 more
The present study examined psychoemotional profiles associated with reading comprehension among third-grade Greek students with typical development, learning disabilities, and developmental language disorder. A person-centered approach was used to identify distinct profiles based on academic emotions, reading…
Yewulsew Godie Gela, Birtukan Gizachew Ayal, Dawit Dibekulu
Three participants explicitly contrasted short stories with actual foreign language text, describing the latter as fact-based, less engaging and similar to other academic subjects. For instance, respondents responded, “The reading texts used in the actual classroom felt like other natural science content and didn’t…
Tuomo Häikiö, Oksana Kanerva, Norbert Erdmann, Mirjamaija Mikkilä‐Erdmann + 1 more
We examined how Finnish children read and integrate information across multiple expository texts when given an inquiry task. We were interested in how task-relevance of text information affects readers' eye movements and whether the eye movements are connected to the quality of an essay written after reading. We were…
Lin Li, Chenxi Wang, Yaning Ji, Jiaxin Du + 2 more
Previous research suggests receiving a concurrent auditory version of text during reading, i.e., reading-while-listening, improves eye-movement behavior in less skilled readers, while disrupting skilled reading. We extended this approach to older adults (65+ years) to see whether they benefit similarly. The experiment…