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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
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Fung, Wing Kai; Chung, Kevin Kien Hoa; Lam, Chun Bun – Journal of Research in Reading, 2020
This study examined the bidirectionality between kindergarten children's executive functioning (EF) and word reading across two time points. Participants were 523 Hong Kong Chinese-speaking children (mean age at Time 2 = 64.59 months; 52.9% male) and their parents. At Time 1, children were administered the measures of EF skills: inhibitory…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Foreign Countries, Young Children, Time Perspective
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Chan, Jessica S.; Wade-Woolley, Lesly – Journal of Research in Reading, 2018
Background: This study was designed to extend our understanding of phonology and reading to include suprasegmental awareness using measures of prosodic awareness, which are complex tasks that tap into the rhythmic aspects of phonology. By requiring participants to access, reflect on and manipulate word stress, the prosodic awareness measures used…
Descriptors: Phonology, Executive Function, Adults, Short Term Memory