Emergent Bilinguals With Specific Reading Comprehension Deficits: A Comparative and Longitudinal Analysis

2020 ◽  
pp. 002221942098324
Author(s):  
Ana Taboada Barber ◽  
Susan Lutz Klauda ◽  
Weimeng Wang ◽  
Kelly B. Cartwright ◽  
Laurie E. Cutting
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Oral Language ◽  
Word Identification ◽  
Reading Engagement ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Inference Making ◽  
Poor Reading ◽  
Emergent Bilingual ◽  
Specific Reading ◽  
Insight Into

This study centered on emergent bilingual (EB) students with specific reading comprehension deficits (S-RCD), that is, with poor reading comprehension despite solid word identification skills. The participants were 209 students in Grades 2 to 4, including both EBs and English Monolinguals (EMs) with and without S-RCD. Mean comparisons indicated that EBs and EMs with S-RCD showed weaknesses relative to typically developing (TD) readers in oral language, word identification, inference making, and reading engagement, but not in executive functioning. Longitudinal analyses indicated that across two academic years S-RCD persisted for 41% of EBs and EMs alike. Altogether, the study extends research on EBs with S-RCD by identifying variables beyond oral language that may account for their reading comprehension difficulties and providing insight into the extent to which their reading comprehension and word identification performance levels evolve during elementary school. Furthermore, the findings point to the importance of early identification and intervention for weaknesses in reading comprehension and its component elements in both EBs and EMS.

scholarly journals The Comprehension Problems of Children With Poor Reading Comprehension Despite Adequate Decoding: A Meta-Analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 366-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mercedes Spencer ◽  
Richard K. Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Oral Language ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Poor Reading ◽  
Syntactic Knowledge ◽  
Specific Reading ◽  
Oral Language Skills ◽  
Comprehension Deficit ◽  
Practical Implications

The purpose of this meta-analysis was to examine the comprehension problems of children who have a specific reading comprehension deficit (SCD), which is characterized by poor reading comprehension despite adequate decoding. The meta-analysis included 86 studies of children with SCD who were assessed in reading comprehension and oral language (vocabulary, listening comprehension, storytelling ability, and semantic and syntactic knowledge). Results indicated that children with SCD had deficits in oral language (d = −0.78, 95% confidence interval, CI [−0.89, −0.68], but these deficits were not as severe as their deficit in reading comprehension (d = −2.78, 95% CI [−3.01, −2.54]). When compared with reading comprehension age–matched normal readers, the oral language skills of the two groups were comparable (d = 0.32, 95% CI [−0.49, 1.14]), which suggests that the oral language weaknesses of children with SCD represent a developmental delay rather than developmental deviance. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.

Oral language and reading abilities of first-grade Peruvian children: Associations with child and family factors

2002 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 334-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dina C. Castro ◽  
Bobbie B. Lubker ◽  
Donna M. Bryant ◽  
Martie Skinner
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Oral Language ◽  
Maternal Education ◽  
Word Identification ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Letter Word ◽  
Reading Abilities ◽  
Verbal Analogies

This study investigated the relationship between selected child and family demographic characteristics (child age, child sex, child birth order, maternal education, and parent language status), family processes (parent-to-child reading at home, and parent expectations about child’s educational attainment), and preschool experience with poor Peruvian first-grade children’s oral language and reading abilities, and examined whether those factors help to explain differences among children living in poverty. First-grade students ( N = 137) of five schools in a poor neighbourhood of Lima, Peru participated in the study. Children were given picture vocabulary, verbal analogies, letter-word identification, and reading comprehension tests. Information about the children and their families was gathered through parent interviews. Children whose parents had higher expectations obtained higher scores on picture vocabulary, verbal analogies, letter-word identification and reading comprehension. Children who attended private and public preschools obtained higher scores in letter-word identification than those who did not attend preschool. These findings support previous research on the relevance of family beliefs, above and beyond sociodemographic variables, as contributors to children’s oral language and reading, and provide some evidence of the benefits of preschool among children living in poverty. Future research is recommended to identify the specific strategies used by low-income Peruvian parents with high expectations to support their children’s language and reading; and to determine the relationships between type and quality in Peruvian preschool programmes, and programme practices that may differentially affect children’s language and reading skills.

scholarly journals Exploring Dynamic Assessment as a Means of Identifying Children At Risk of Developing Comprehension Difficulties

2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 348-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy M. Elleman ◽  
Donald L. Compton ◽  
Douglas Fuchs ◽  
Lynn S. Fuchs ◽  
Bobette Bouton
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Concurrent Validity ◽  
Word Identification ◽  
Dynamic Assessment ◽  
Second Grade ◽  
Children At Risk ◽  
Inference Making ◽  
Reading Abilities ◽  
Standardized Measure ◽  
Better Than

In this study, the authors explore a newly constructed dynamic assessment (DA) intended to tap inference-making skills that they hypothesize will be predictive of future comprehension performance. The authors administered the test to 100 second-grade children using a dynamic format to consider the concurrent validity of the measure. The dynamic portion of the assessment comprised teaching children to be “reading detectives” by using textual clues to solve what was happening in the story. During the DA children listened to short passages and answered three inferential questions (i.e., one setting, two causal). If children were unable to answer a question, they were reminded what a reading detective would do and given a set of increasingly concrete prompts and clues to orient them to the relevant portion of text until they could answer the question correctly. Results showed that the DA correlated significantly with a standardized measure of reading comprehension and explained a small but significant amount of unique variance in reading comprehension above and beyond vocabulary and word identification skills. In addition, results suggest that DA may be better than the standardized measure of reading comprehension at identifying intraindividual differences in young children’s reading abilities.

Riddle Appreciation and Reading Comprehension in Cantonese-Speaking Children

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 348-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivy N. Y. Tang ◽  
Carol K. S. To ◽  
Brendan S. Weekes
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Reading Skills ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Auditory Comprehension ◽  
Writing Systems ◽  
Inference Making ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Character Reading ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeInference-making skills are necessary for reading comprehension. Training in riddle appreciation is an effective way to improve reading comprehension among English-speaking children. However, it is not clear whether these methods generalize to other writing systems. The goal of the present study was to investigate the relationship between inference-making skills, as measured by riddle appreciation ability, and reading comprehension performance in typically developing Cantonese-speaking children in the 4th grade.MethodForty Cantonese-speaking children between the ages of 9;1 (years;months) and 11;0 were given tests of riddle appreciation ability and reading comprehension. Chinese character reading and auditory comprehension abilities were also assessed using tests that had been standardized in Hong Kong.ResultsRegression analyses revealed that riddle appreciation ability explained a significant amount of variance in reading comprehension after variance due to character reading skills and auditory comprehension skills were first considered. Orthographic, lexical, morphological, and syntactic riddles were also significantly correlated with reading comprehension.ConclusionRiddle appreciation ability predicts reading comprehension in Cantonese-speaking 4th-grade children. Therefore, training Cantonese speakers in riddle appreciation should improve their reading comprehension.

scholarly journals Investigating the white matter correlates of reading performance: Evidence from Chinese children with reading difficulties

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. e0248434
Author(s):  
Natalie Yu-Hsien Wang ◽  
Hsiao-Lan Sharon Wang ◽  
Yi-Chun Liu ◽  
Yi-Peng Eve Chang ◽  
Jun-Cheng Weng
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
White Matter ◽  
Word Recognition ◽  
Corpus Callosum ◽  
Reading Difficulties ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Typically Developing Children ◽  
Poor Reading ◽  
Medial Frontal Gyrus ◽  
The Right

Purpose Reading comprehension is closely associated with word recognition, particularly at the early stage of reading development. This association is reflected in children with reading difficulties (RD) who demonstrate poor reading comprehension along with delayed word recognition or reduced recognition accuracy. Although the neural mechanisms underlying reading comprehension and word recognition are well studied, few has investigated the white matter (WM) structures that the two processes potentially share. Methods To explore the issue, behavioral scores (word recognition & reading comprehension) and diffusion spectrum imaging (DSI) were acquired from Chinese-speaking children with RD and their age-matched typically developing children. WM structures were measured with generalized fractional anisotropy and normalized quantitative anisotropy to optimize fiber tracking precision. Results The children with RD performed significantly poorer than the typically developing children in both behavioral tasks. Between group differences of WM structure were found in the right superior temporal gyrus, the left medial frontal gyrus, the left medial frontal gyrus, and the left caudate body. A significant association between reading comprehension and Chinese character recognition and the DSI indices were found in the corpus callosum. The findings demonstrated the microstructural difference between children with and without reading difficulties go beyond the well-established reading network. Further, the association between the WM integrity of the corpus callosum and the behavioral scores reveals the involvement of the WM structure in both tasks. Conclusion It suggests the two reading-related skills have partially overlapped neural mechanism. Associating the corpus callosum with the reading skills leads to the reconsideration of the right hemisphere role in the typical reading process and, potentially, how it compensates for children with reading difficulties.

Hearing Screening Failure Among Students With Reading Impairment: Rate and Relation to Specific Reading Deficits

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 1212-1220
Author(s):  
Krystal L. Werfel ◽  
Laura Peek ◽  
Gabriella Reynolds ◽  
Sydney Bassard
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Screening ◽  
Literacy Assessment ◽  
Poor Reading ◽  
Reading Deficits ◽  
Reading Impairment ◽  
Underlying Factor ◽  
Specific Reading ◽  
Comprehension Skills ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Reading Impairments

Background The purpose of this preliminary study was to explore one potential underlying factor that may contribute to poor reading outcomes: minimal hearing loss. Additionally, we compared decoding and comprehension deficits in students who passed or failed the hearing screening. Method Forty-three school-age students completed a hearing screening and a literacy assessment. Results Fifty-four percent of children with reading impairments failed the hearing screening, compared to only 21% of children with typical reading. Additionally, students who failed the hearing screening were more likely to exhibit decoding deficits; comprehension skills between the hearing screening groups did not differ. Conclusions Thus, children with reading impairments are more likely to fail hearing screenings than children with typical reading, and the deficits of those who fail hearing screenings appear to center on decoding rather than comprehension skills. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.12818252

scholarly journals Reading for Comprehension in Individuals with Down Syndrome, Autism Spectrum Disorder and Typical Development: Similar or Different Patterns of Ability?

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 828
Author(s):  
Maja Roch ◽  
Kate Cain ◽  
Christopher Jarrold
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Down Syndrome ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Language Comprehension ◽  
Oral Language ◽  
Word Reading ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Receptive Vocabulary ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Reading Accuracy

Reading for meaning is one of the most important activities in school and everyday life. The simple view of reading (SVR) has been used as a framework for studies of reading comprehension in individuals with Down syndrome (DS). These tend to show difficulties in reading comprehension despite better developed reading accuracy. Reading comprehension difficulties are influenced by poor oral language. These difficulties are common in individuals with DS and autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but they have never been compared directly. Moreover, the components of reading for comprehension have rarely been investigated in these populations: a better understanding of the nature of reading comprehension difficulties may inform both theory and practice. The aim of this study was to determine whether reading comprehension in the two populations is accounted for by the same component skills and to what extent the reading profile of the two atypical groups differs from that of typically developing children (TD). Fifteen individuals with DS (mean age = 22 years 4 months, SD = 5 years 2 months), 21 with ASD (mean age = 13 years 2 months, SD = 1 year 6 months), and 42 TD children (mean age = 8 years 1 month, SD = 7 months) participated and were assessed on measures of receptive vocabulary, text reading and listening comprehension, oral language comprehension, and reading accuracy. The results showed similar levels in word reading accuracy and in receptive vocabulary in all three groups. By contrast, individuals with DS and ASD showed poorer non-word reading and reading accuracy in context than TD children. Both atypical groups showed poorer listening and reading text comprehension compared to TD children. Reading for comprehension, investigated through a homograph reading accuracy task, showed a different pattern for individuals with DS with respect to the other two groups: they were less sensitive to meaning while reading. According to the SVR, the current results confirm that the two atypical groups have similar profiles that overlap with that of poor comprehenders in which poor oral language comprehension constrains reading for comprehension.

The contribution of narrative morphosyntactic quality to reading comprehension in French immersion students

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 1375-1391 ◽  
Author(s):  
KATHLEEN HIPFNER-BOUCHER ◽  
KATIE LAM ◽  
XI CHEN
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Oral Language ◽  
Maternal Education ◽  
Word Reading ◽  
French Immersion ◽  
Oral Narrative ◽  
L2 Reading ◽  
Canadian French ◽  
Narrative Generation ◽  
Oral Language Skills

ABSTRACTThis study investigated the relationship between L2 oral narrative morphosyntactic quality and L2 reading comprehension in a sample of 81 students enrolled in a Canadian French immersion program in Grade 1. Measures of French narrative generation and reading comprehension were administered concurrently. The proportion of utterances in the narratives that were judged to be grammatically acceptable was found to explain unique variance in reading comprehension, controlling for nonverbal intelligence, maternal education, phonological awareness, vocabulary and word reading. The results suggest that even in the earliest stages of L2 literacy acquisition, L2 oral language skills contribute to reading comprehension outcomes. The results of our study suggest that there may be value in providing L2 children with classroom-based story-related experiences that expose them to literate language.

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