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Comprehension Problems
The studies on comprehension problems carried out within the framework of this project (Lehtinen, 2012; Wiklund, 2016; Wiklund & Laakso, 2019, 2020)...
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Punctuation: a missing link between awareness of prosody and reading comprehension
There is growing theoretical and empirical consensus for a role of awareness of suprasegmental phonology, also known as prosody, or the rhythmic...
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Numeral comprehension in children with different levels of language proficiency
Reading comprehension and arithmetic skills are essential abilities for children, particularly at the early career. Examine the link between language...
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Linguistically-driven text formatting improves reading comprehension for ELLs and EL1s
Typical print formatting provides no information regarding the linguistic features of a text, although texts vary considerably with respect to...
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Morphological density and reading comprehension in Hebrew novice readers
Hebrew allows the representation of the meaning of a few words in one dense form by using bound morphemes that linearly attach to the word. By...
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Connecting the dots: the contribution of orthographic knowledge to L2 Chinese reading comprehension through serial mediation of word decoding and listening comprehension
Guided by the Simple View of Reading (SVR considers reading comprehension as a product of decoding and listening comprehension) and the self-teaching...
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Contributions of cognitive flexibility to reading comprehension in chinese beginning readers
The present study examined whether and how early cognitive flexibility, metalinguistic awareness, including phonological awareness (PA) and...
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Syntactic knowledge in a foreign language: examining cross-language transfer effects in L2 noun phrase comprehension
This study assessed the effect of adjectives and noun premodifiers on L2 noun phrase comprehension and error types among English Language Learners....
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Two facets of context sensitivity and reading comprehension in L2 children
Using context to derive a word’s meaning is typically conceptualized as part of the reading comprehension process. However, context sensitivity...
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Effects of working memory and visual search skill on Chinese reading comprehension: examining the simple view of reading
To investigate the longitudinal effects of two domain-general cognitive abilities, namely verbal working memory and visual search skill, on Chinese...
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Spanish adaptation of a cloze procedure to assess reading comprehension beyond the sentence level
The Hybrid Text Comprehension cloze (HyTeC-cloze) (Kleijn et al. Lang Test 36:553–572, 2019) is a procedure developed for the Dutch language that has...
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Gaining a deeper understanding of the deep cloze reading comprehension test: examining potential contributors and consequences
The deep cloze test was developed by Jensen and Elbro (Read Writ Interdiscip J 35(5):1221–1237, 2022.
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Eye movements and reading comprehension performance: examining the relationships among test format, working memory capacity and reading comprehension
The ability to form a mental model of a text is an essential component of successful reading comprehension (RC), and purpose for reading can...
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The relations of morphological awareness with vocabulary, word reading, and reading comprehension for Korean-speaking middle school students
The aim of this study is to explore the relation of morphological awareness to vocabulary, word reading, and reading comprehension for middle school...
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Exploring boundary conditions of the listening comprehension-reading comprehension discrepancy index
Conversations about the nature of dyslexia and how dyslexia impacts reading and listening comprehension get to the heart of classification and...
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Does the reading acceleration program improve reading fluency and comprehension in emergent bilingual children?
It has been suggested that the reading acceleration program (RAP) (Breznitz et al. in Nature Communications 4: 1486, 2013), in which participants are...
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Does students’ exposure to websites moderate the positive relationship between print exposure and text comprehension?
In this study, I investigated the print exposure and website exposure of undergraduates in relation to their scores on a text comprehension test....
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Comprehension and critique: an examination of students’ evaluations of information in texts
While learners’ evaluations of author trustworthiness have received much attention in prior research, less work has examined how students evaluate...
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Impact of text-to-speech features on the reading comprehension of children with reading and language difficulties
This study investigated the reading comprehension scores of students with reading and language difficulties after reading a passage with and without...
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Vocabulary, text coverage, word frequency and the lexical threshold in elementary school reading comprehension
Vocabulary knowledge is one of the most important elements of reading comprehension. Text coverage is the proportion of known words in a given text....
