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Does vocabulary knowledge matter in the effectiveness of instructing reading strategies? Differential responses from adolescents with low academic achievement on growth in reading comprehension
Prior studies suggest that teaching reading strategies promotes reading comprehension in adolescents who have difficulties with reading...
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Understanding the nature and severity of reading difficulties among students with language and reading comprehension difficulties
This study investigated the presence of word reading difficulties in a sample of students in Grades 1–4 ( n = 357) identified with language and...
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How syntactic awareness might influence reading comprehension in English–French bilingual children
This study evaluates the extent to which syntactic awareness contributes to reading comprehension in English–French bilinguals, considering both the...
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Response to intervention for high school students: examining baseline word reading skills and reading comprehension outcomes
The purpose of this post hoc analysis was to analyze if pre-intervention word reading skills contributed to intervention response on reading...
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Exploring literal and inferential reading comprehension among L2 adolescent learners: the roles of working memory capacity, syllogistic inference, and L2 linguistic knowledge
Adopting a cognitive perspective, this study examined roles of working memory capacity (WMC), first language (L1) syllogistic inferencing, and second...
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Clozing in on reading comprehension: a deep cloze test of global inference making
Traditional cloze tests (such as the CBM-maze) may be poor measures of comprehension processes beyond the single sentence level. This paper presents...
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Levels of skills and predictive patterns of reading comprehension in bilingual children with an early age of acquisition
Bilingualism appears to be related to poor language and reading comprehension in the instructional language (L2). However, in the long term, an early...
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What do upper-elementary and middle school teachers know about the processes of text comprehension?
Teachers’ knowledge of reading comprehension processes is underresearched relative to teachers’ knowledge of word identification and phonological...
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The heterogeneity and interrelationships among theory of mind, executive function, and reading comprehension deficits in Hong Kong Chinese children with Autism
Reading comprehension difficulties exhibited by children with autism are related to executive function (EF) and theory of mind (ToM) deficits....
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Chinese adolescents learning to read in English: How do different types of morphological awareness contribute to vocabulary knowledge and comprehension?
Convergent evidence suggests that, for bilingual learners, well-developed morphological awareness in the first or second language may facilitate...
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Middle school matters: examining the effects of a schoolwide professional development model to improve reading comprehension
Many middle school students perform below grade-level standards in reading (National Center for Education Statistics, Washington, 2019), and recent...
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Constructing Arabic Reading Comprehension Datasets: Arabic WikiReading and KaifLematha
Neural machine reading comprehension models have gained immense popularity over the last decade given the availability of large-scale English...
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Effects of an executive function-based text support on strategy use and comprehension–integration of conflicting informational texts
Executive functions (EF) have been theoretically implicated in multiple text comprehension. Yet, the contributions of EFs to comprehension and...
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Differential effects and success stories of distance education in Covid-19 lockdowns on the development of reading comprehension in primary schools
In the current study, the development in reading comprehension performance of students in lower-SES versus higher-SES schools during and after school...
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Word processing difficulty and executive control interactively shape comprehension monitoring in a second language: an eye-tracking study
Successful reading comprehension—especially in a second language (L2)—relies on the ability to monitor one’s comprehension, that is, to notice...
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Default meanings: language’s logical connectives between comprehension and reasoning
Language employs various coordinators to connect propositions, a subset of which are “logical” in nature and thus analogous to the truth operators of...
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Effects of oral language and decoding skills on reading comprehension performance across multiple assessments: a longitudinal study
Reading comprehension (RC) is a multi-faceted construct but is often assessed with a single instrument. Previous research has highlighted that...
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A meta-analytic review of comprehension deficits in students with dyslexia
Beyond the established difficulties of individuals with dyslexia in word recognition and spelling, it remains unclear how severe their difficulties...
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Effects of searching for rhetorical relations on university-level text comprehension in L2
Establishing relations between concepts and ideas is vital for university-level reading. However, students often understand expository text only...
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The relationship between autism traits and listening comprehension among Chinese preschool children with autism spectrum disorder
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the direct and indirect relationships between autism traits and listening comprehension among...
