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Predictors of second language reading comprehension ability: a longitudinal study with learners from grade 9 to 11 in an English as a foreign language context
This longitudinal study investigated development of second language (L2) reading comprehension ability and predictive contributions of five L2...
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Writing a synthesis versus reading: strategies involved and impact on comprehension
Little evidence is available regarding the differential impact of reading versus reading and writing on multiple source comprehension. The present...
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Emotional understanding in reading comprehension at the text, task, and reader levels: a comparison of diverse struggling readers
According to the multidimensional view of reading comprehension (RAND), reading comprehension (RC) is influenced by three components: the reader,...
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How RAN stimulus type and repetition affect RAN’s relation with decoding efficiency and reading comprehension
Purpose: This study investigated how correlations between rapid automatized naming (RAN) and reading depend on characteristics of the stimuli. RAN...
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Impacts of cognitive flexibility on central word identification: evidence from poor comprehenders’ discourse comprehension of first graders with ADHD
Cognitive flexibility (CF) is an executive function component related to the ability to flexibly shift amongst multiple incompatible perspectives or...
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Effects of teacher knowledge of early reading on students’ gains in reading foundational skills and comprehension
The importance of having a highly qualified teacher in every classroom is an educational necessity. Determining which teacher characteristics define...
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Key language, cognitive and higher-order skills for L2 reading comprehension of expository texts in English as foreign language students: a systematic review
This systematic review addressed the following question: Which are the relations between L1 and/or L2 foundational and upper-level language skills,...
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Comprehension of quantifier sentences in poor readers with different levels of arithmetic proficiency
This study compared the sentence hyperbole comprehension performance of Chinese poor readers with various levels of arithmetic proficiency. A total...
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How does word knowledge facilitate reading comprehension in a second language? A longitudinal study in Chinese primary school children learning English
This study aims to advance our understanding of the role of word knowledge in second language (L2) reading comprehension by exploring whether...
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Precursors of reading text comprehension from paper and screen in first graders: a longitudinal study
Research on text comprehension in relation to the reading medium (paper or screen) has mainly involved undergraduate or high school students. To...
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Corpus Affordances in Foreign Language Reading Comprehension
This chapter covers a topic that few corpus studies have addressed specifically: the potential usefulness of Data-Driven Learning (DDL)...
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Graphic novel reading comprehension in Chinese children with developmental language disorder (DLD)
Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) have consistently showed poor performances in reading comprehension. Extending from previous...
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The meta-linguistic and domain-specific executive function profile of children with decoding or comprehension difficulties
This study aimed to investigate the meta-linguistic and executive function profile for different subtypes of reading difficulties (RD) among...
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General and special education teachers’ knowledge about reading comprehension processes and instructional practices
The study investigated teachers’ knowledge of reading comprehension processes and reading comprehension instruction. The study was carried out among...
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Specifying the contributions of morphological awareness to decoding, syntactic awareness, and reading comprehension in Chinese children learning English as a second language
This study aims to explore the specific contributions of derivational, inflectional, and compounding morphological awareness to reading comprehension...
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Development of silent reading fluency and reading comprehension across grades 1 to 9: unidirectional or bidirectional effects between the two skills?
PurposeThis study examines the developmental interplay between silent reading fluency and reading comprehension from Grade 1 to Grade 9 (age 7 to 15)...
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Relation between digital tool practices in the language arts classroom and reading comprehension scores
Concerns about the negative effects of digitalization on students’ reading comprehension, empirically backed by recent meta-analyses, question the...
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Bidirectional longitudinal relationship between chinese children’s compounding awareness and idiom comprehension among from grades 3 to 5
Children’s idiom comprehension is an important aspect of language development. Idioms have both literal and figurative meanings, and there are often...
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Syntactic awareness matters: uncovering reading comprehension difficulties in Hong Kong Chinese-English bilingual children
This study examined whether syntactic awareness was related to reading comprehension difficulties in either first language (L1) Chinese or second...
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Vocabulary limitations undermine bilingual children’s reading comprehension despite bilingual cognitive strengths
Previous research reported bilingual cognitive strengths in working memory, executive function and novel-word learning skills (Bialystok in Psychol...
