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Jia Lin; Li Yang – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
To achieve efficient reading comprehension, Chinese as a second language (L2) learners adopt various component skills and knowledge, including the aspects of vocabulary, grammar, and coherence. However, there is no consensus regarding the relative predictive powers of these three areas in L2 reading comprehension. Instead of employing direct…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills
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Ünal, Zehra E.; Greene, Nathaniel R.; Lin, Xin; Geary, David C. – Educational Psychology Review, 2023
Two meta-analyses assessed whether the relations between reading and mathematics outcomes could be explained through overlapping skills (e.g., systems for word and fact retrieval) or domain-general influences (e.g., top-down attentional control). The first (378 studies, 1,282,796 participants) included weighted random-effects meta-regression…
Descriptors: Correlation, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Meta Analysis
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McArthur, Genevieve; Badcock, Nicholas; Castles, Anne; Robidoux, Serje – Reading Research Quarterly, 2022
There is good evidence for an association between poor reading and anxiety, but the mechanisms responsible for this association are currently unknown. In this study, we used structural equation modeling of four large longitudinal databases from the United Kingdom (n = 7,870), the United States (ns = 8,001 and 7,160), and Australia (n = 768) to…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Reading Skills, Mental Health, Reading Difficulties
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Baldwin, Erika; Heilmann, John; Finneran, Denise; Cho, Chi C.; Moyle, Maura – Journal of Research in Reading, 2022
Background: Numerous studies have observed a significant and unique relationship between children's use of nonmainstream dialect and reading outcomes. We aimed to examine the relationship between nonmainstream dialect and reading at its roots by completing a preliminary evaluation of the relationship between African American English (AAE) dialect…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, African American Students, Structural Equation Models, Reading Skills