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Eunsoo Cho; Unhee Ju; Eun Ha Kim; Minhye Lee; Garam Lee; Donald L. Compton – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2023
Purpose: We examined the extent to which achievement goals predict reading comprehension, measured by two response formats (free recall and constructed response), and how these relations differ for students with and without reading difficulties (RD). We further explored how executive functions (working memory and semantic verbal fluency) mediate…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Goal Orientation, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
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Young-Suk Grace Kim – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2023
Purpose: A large body of literature showed that word reading and listening comprehension-two proximal predictors of reading comprehension according to the simple view of reading -- are related. Grounded on the direct and indirect effects model of reading, we examined the extent to which the relation is explained by domain-general cognitions or…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Morphology (Languages), Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension
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Spencer, Mercedes; Richmond, Miranda C.; Cutting, Laurie E. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2020
In the present study, we used latent variable structural equation modeling to investigate relations between oral language, decoding, and two components of executive function (cognitive flexibility and working memory) and reading comprehension in a sample of 271 native English-speaking 9.00- to 14.83-year-olds. Results of the mediation analyses…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Reading Comprehension, Short Term Memory, Oral Language