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Direct linkBernardo Benites de Cerqueira; Andressa Aparecida Garces Gamarra Salem; Caroline de Oliveira Cardoso; Rochele Paz Fonseca; João Batista Mossmann; Débora Nice Ferrari Barbosa – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Executive Functions are essential for good school performance as well as for the proper development of individuals' socio-affective, vocational, academic, and planning skills. Investigations with digital games aimed at stimulating inhibitory control of the executive functions in the school environment, especially with typically developing children…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4, Pilot Projects
Yael Kimhi; Yifat Mirsky; Nirit Bauminger-Zviely – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Many children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have challenges in reading comprehension, especially when implicit information in narrative texts is involved. Three interrelated factors influencing reading comprehension have been proposed to explain these challenges: Theory of Mind -- ToM; executive functions -- EF; and central coherence -- CC.…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Grade 3, Children, Reading Comprehension
Download full textMingjia Cai; Xian Liao – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2025
Executive functions (EF) have long been recognized as critical factors in accounting for individual differences in literacy development. However, their role in second language (L2) learning, particularly in non-alphabetic languages such as Chinese, has not been fully explored. This study endeavored to examine the role of EF in word reading among…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Chinese, Second Language Learning, Age Differences
Cathy On-Ying Hung; Mingjia Cai; Xian Liao – Journal of Research in Reading, 2025
Background: Executive function (EF) is significantly associated with reading comprehension outcomes, yet the interaction between EF and critical language skills (including vocabulary, morphological awareness (MA) and syntactic knowledge), across these levels of reading comprehension (literal, inferential and evaluative comprehension) has rarely…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Reading Comprehension, Language Skills, Vocabulary
Anna Cardis; Elena Podda; Maria Chiara Fastame – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Phonemic awareness (PA) refers to the ability to reflect on and manipulate phonemes. The development of the ability to become aware of and conduct mental operations on phonemes might involve higher-order cognitive processes, such as executive functions (EFs), which help modulate attention to goal-relevant information and support behavioral…
Descriptors: Phonemic Awareness, Executive Function, Reading Skills, Decoding (Reading)
Rachel Schiff; Shani Levy-Shimon; Lior Oanunu Shashoua; Ayelet Sasson – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2025
The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of a multi-component homograph processing intervention complemented by Executive Function (EF) skills on the performance of struggling readers. The researchers focused on measuring improvements in literacy, metalinguistic abilities, cognitive/EF skills acquired during the intervention, and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Reading Instruction, Reading Difficulties
