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Sisi Liu; Ning Li; Xinyong Zhang; Li-Chih Angus Wang; Duo Liu – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
To investigate the longitudinal effects of two domain-general cognitive abilities, namely verbal working memory and visual search skill, on Chinese reading comprehension. To evaluate whether decoding and linguistic comprehension mediate such effects. A total of 202 first-grade Chinese-speaking children from mainland China (M[subscript]age =…
Descriptors: Chinese, Reading Comprehension, Short Term Memory, Grade 1
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Parsons, Christine E.; Lyddy, Fiona – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2016
Schools in Ireland vary in how they introduce reading in the two official languages, Irish and English. There is particular variability within immersion (Irish medium) schools. Some introduce Irish reading first (IRF) and others English reading first (ERF). This study compared the development of Irish and English skills in children attending…
Descriptors: Literacy, Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Longitudinal Studies
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Holliman, A. J.; Williams, G. J.; Mundy, I. R.; Wood, C.; Hart, L.; Waldron, S. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
A growing number of studies now suggest that sensitivity to the rhythmic patterning of speech (prosody) is implicated in successful reading acquisition. However, recent evidence suggests that prosody is not a unitary construct and that the different components of prosody (stress, intonation, and timing) operating at different linguistic levels…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Task Analysis, Individual Differences, Intonation
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Poulsen, Mads; Gravgaard, Amalie K. D. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2016
This study investigated the relationship between syntactic comprehension at the sentence level and text-level comprehension. The study isolated the specific contribution of syntax by asking whether sentence comprehension efficiency of difficult syntactic constructions explained variance in text comprehension after controlling for sentence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Elementary School Students, Grade 5
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Henderson, Lisa M.; Baseler, Heidi A.; Clarke, Paula J.; Watson, Sarah; Snowling, Margaret J. – Brain and Language, 2011
Using event-related potentials (ERPs), we investigated the N400 (an ERP component that occurs in response to meaningful stimuli) in children aged 8-10 years old and examined relationships between the N400 and individual differences in listening comprehension, word recognition and non-word decoding. Moreover, we tested the claim that the N400…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, Stimuli, Semantics, Word Recognition
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Hamada, Megumi; Koda, Keiko – Language Learning, 2008
This study examined the influence of first language (L1) orthographic experiences on decoding and semantic information retention of new words in a second language (L2). Hypotheses were that congruity in L1 and L2 orthographic experiences determines L2 decoding efficiency, which, in turn, affects semantic information encoding and retention.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Semantics, Second Language Learning, Learning Processes