The role of word decoding, vocabulary knowledge and meta-cognitive knowledge in monolingual and bilingual low-achieving adolescents' reading comprehension

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 312-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roel van Steensel ◽  
Ron Oostdam ◽  
Amos van Gelderen ◽  
Erik van Schooten
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-376
Author(s):  
Gavin Brooks ◽  
Jon Clenton ◽  
Simon Fraser

This exploratory study represents an attempt to investigate the factors that may affect the reading comprehension abilities of English as an additional language (EAL) learners. For this study, we examined a participant group of 31 (25 EAL and 6 first language English) learners studying at an international school in Japan. We assessed the participants according to four factors shown to influence reading comprehension: vocabulary knowledge, word decoding skills, reading fluency, and general linguistic ability. Our results show that differences in vocabulary knowledge show more variance in reading comprehension scores than the other factors examined in this study, highlighting the importance of vocabulary knowledge for reading comprehension. However, other factors such as reading fluency and general linguistic knowledge are also shown to be moderate to strong predictors of reading comprehension. Based on these results, we suggest that EAL learners need targeted language support to enhance academic text comprehension.


Author(s):  
Francisco Carrero Barril

ABSTRACT:In the present paper, it is pretended to explain the role of basic levels in the processing of reading into the global comprehension when deaf students cope with writing texts. Deaf students have severe deficits in general language knowledge which involves deficits in syntactic and semantic abilities. And so they have several difficulties in reading and writing. Otherwise, deaf students have specific limitations in the processing of writing texts (Marschark, 2008). In the current review, the goal is to approach the specific difficulties in reading comprehension in the basis of processing: phonological awareness, lexical access and vocabulary knowledge. First, we will establish how phonological coding and reading efficiency are related. In the second hand, we asked if the limited lexical access influence final comprehension. Finally, it is noted that deaf students have a restricted vocabulary that affect their own ability to extract the global meaning of reading.RESUMEN:En el presente estudio procederemos a revisar el papel que juegan los niveles inferiores de procesamiento lector en la comprensión cuando los alumnos sordos se enfrentan a los textos escritos. Los alumnos sordos presentan déficits en la competencia lingüística general, lo que se traduce en déficit en las capacidades sintácticas y semánticas a nivel oral, lo que condiciona un abordaje del lenguaje escrito con dificultades de base. (Paul, 2009). Por otro lado, los alumnos sordos presentan déficits específicos en el procesamiento del lenguaje escrito (Marschark, 2008). En este estudio nos centraremos en los niveles que preceden a los procesos específicos de comprensión lectora. Revisaremos en profundidad tres de ellos: la decodificación fonológica, el acceso al léxico y el conocimiento del vocabulario. En nuestra revisión actual, nos centraremos en primer lugar en la relación entre los problemas de conciencia fonológica y los resultados en eficiencia lectora. Más adelante veremos las dificultades de los niños con déficit auditivo para el acceso a la palabra escrita y sus consecuencias en el acceso al significado del texto. Y finalmente, revisaremos si el volumen de vocabulario que el alumno sordo posee incide en el resultado final de la lectura. Contacto principal: [email protected]


2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 1195-1217 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. CREMER ◽  
R. SCHOONEN

ABSTRACTThe influences of word decoding, availability, and accessibility of semantic word knowledge on reading comprehension were investigated for monolingual (n = 65) and bilingual children (n = 70). Despite equal decoding abilities, monolingual children outperformed bilingual children with regard to reading comprehension and availability of semantic word knowledge. Individual differences in reading comprehension were accounted for by differences in availability of semantic word knowledge and to a lesser extent by speed of access to this semantic knowledge. Speed of access accounted for variance in reading comprehension beyond the variance accounted for by decoding and availability of semantic knowledge. A path model suggests that reading comprehension differences between monolinguals and bilinguals are mediated by availability of semantic knowledge. Analyses showed no significant interaction between predictor variables and language background. A multigroup analysis distinguishing proficient and less proficient comprehenders showed a small difference between the two proficiency groups, suggesting that the lexical–semantic variables are more predictive of reading proficiency in the proficient group than in the less proficient group.


2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 1079
Author(s):  
Noora Harkio ◽  
Päivi Pietilä

This article reports the results of a study on the relationship between second language vocabulary breadth, vocabulary depth, and reading comprehension. A special aim was to discover the role of vocabulary depth in the prediction and explanation of L2 learners’ reading comprehension. Two proficiency levels, intermediate and advanced, were compared. Vocabulary breadth was measured with the Vocabulary Size Test (Nation & Beglar, 2007), vocabulary depth with the Vocabulary Knowledge Scale (Wesche & Paribakht, 1996), and reading comprehension with a test compiled of sections from two former matriculation examination tasks. The three constructs showed strong positive correlations in both groups of subjects. However, based on the results, vocabulary breadth and depth seem to be stronger predictors of reading comprehension skills in lower levels of proficiency than on the advanced level.


2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 418-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sietske van Viersen ◽  
Elise H. de Bree ◽  
Marjolein Zee ◽  
Ben Maassen ◽  
Aryan van der Leij ◽  
...  

The present study investigated the role of early oral language and family risk for dyslexia in the two developmental pathways toward reading comprehension, through word reading and through oral language abilities. The sample contained 237 children (164 at family risk for dyslexia) from the Dutch Dyslexia Program. Longitudinal data were obtained on seven occasions when children were between 4 and 12 years old. The relationship between early oral language ability and reading comprehension at the age of 12 years was mediated by preliteracy skills and word-decoding ability for the first pathway and by later language abilities for the second pathway. Family risk influenced literacy development through its subsequent relations with preliteracy skills, word decoding, and reading comprehension. Although performance on language measures was often lower for the family-risk group than for the no-family-risk group, family risk did not have a specific relation with either early or later oral language abilities.


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