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What textbooks offer and what teachers teach: an analysis of the Dutch reading comprehension curriculum
In the Netherlands, the quality of the reading curriculum is currently under debate because of disappointing results on national and international...
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Family socialization and loneliness correlate with third graders’ reading comprehension
This study examined the relations among family socialization, loneliness, linguistic skills, and reading comprehension in 78 Mandarin-speaking...
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The direct and indirect effects of language and cognitive skills on Chinese reading comprehension
This study examined the direct and indirect relations of foundational language skills (vocabulary, syntactic knowledge, and orthographic knowledge),...
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The effect of audio-support on strategy, time, and performance on reading comprehension in secondary school students with dyslexia
The use of adequate reading comprehension strategies is important to read efficiently. Students with dyslexia not only read slower and less...
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Predictors and outcomes of behavioral engagement in the context of text comprehension: when quantity means quality
Using a path analytic approach with a sample of Norwegian undergraduate readers, we investigated the effects of behavioral engagement on text...
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Influences of individual, text, and assessment factors on text/discourse comprehension in oral language (listening comprehension)
We investigated the contributions of multiple strands of factors—individual characteristics (struggling reader status, working memory, vocabulary,...
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Concurrent predictors of word reading and reading comprehension for 9-year-olds with Williams syndrome
We examined the cognitive, language, and instructional factors associated with reading ability in Williams syndrome (WS). Seventy 9-year-olds with WS...
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E-book reading in kindergarten and story comprehension support
We examined intervention programs using an e-book with expansions for promoting story comprehension developed for this study. In program (a),...
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The mediating effects of reading amount and strategy use in the relationship between intrinsic reading motivation and comprehension: differences between Grade 4 and Grade 6 students
There has been a significant volume of research studying the effect of individuals’ motivation on reading comprehension. The findings of previous...
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Exploring the relation between the structure strategy and source attention in single expository text comprehension: a cross-sectional study in secondary education
Organisational signals and sources can be considered metatextual cues that guide the processing of the discourse. Organisational signals encourage...
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Exploring sources of poor reading comprehension in English language learners
This study examined the sources of reading comprehension difficulties in English language learners (ELLs). The characteristics of ELL poor...
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Reading-impaired children improve through text-fading training: analyses of comprehension, orthographic knowledge, and RAN
Early intervention for children with reading impairments is crucial in order to achieve reading improvements and avoid school failure. One line of...
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Follow-Up Comprehension Tests
Ten of the participants with Down Syndrome (DS) whose results were reported in the previous chapters took part in additional experiments. The first...
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Linking Comprehension and Production: Frequency Distribution of Chinese Relative Clauses in the Sinica Treebank
This chapter presents the distribution of Chinese relative clauses in the Sinica Treebank (Chen et al., Sinica corpus: Design methodology for...
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Chinese secondary school students’ reading engagement profiles: associations with reading comprehension
The current study aimed to identify stable and interpretable profiles of 18,338 Chinese secondary school students in eighth grade on the basis of...
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A model-based meta-analytic examination of specific reading comprehension deficit: how prevalent is it and does the simple view of reading account for it?
Many individuals with poor reading comprehension have levels of reading comprehension that are consistent with deficits in their ability to decode...
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Motivational predictors of reading comprehension in middle school: Role of self-efficacy and growth mindsets
We examined the extent to which self-efficacy and growth mindsets predict reading comprehension growth in sixth grade and the moderating role of...
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Examining the contribution of RAN components to reading fluency, reading comprehension, and spelling in German
We examined the contribution of rapid automatized naming (RAN) components (articulation time, pause time, and pause time consistency) to reading...
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The role of morphological awareness in the development of reading comprehension in Hebrew-speaking second-graders
The aim of the current study was to examine the role of morphological awareness (MA), in reading comprehension in second grade Hebrew-speaking...
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Simplifying Texts for Easier Comprehension in an Introductory Computer Science Course: An Evaluation of Rewordify
The ability to read and understand course materials undergirds success in university, and yet many second language (L2) students working with English...