scholarly journals Prevalence of Reading Comprehension Difficulties in Spanish

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-123
Author(s):  
Eduardo García ◽  
Juan E. Jiménez ◽  
Desirée González ◽  
Elisabeth Jiménez-Suárez
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
Learning Disability ◽  
Canary Islands ◽  
Second Grade ◽  
Decoding Skills ◽  
Large Sample ◽  
Specific Reading ◽  
Poor Comprehenders ◽  
Poor Comprehension

The main purpose of this research was to analyze the prevalence and diversity of reading comprehension difficulties in Spanish students of primary and secondary schools. We evaluated a large sample of students from the Canary Islands region that stretched from second grade of primary until the final year of secondary education. Once the percentage of students with reading comprehension difficulties was determined, we classified them in different categories: students with low intelligence, students with specific reading comprehension (poor comprehenders), students with deficit on reading words/pseudowords, absentee students and inmigrants. The results show that 20.2% of the student population present serious problems in understanding a text and 6.7% of the total is included in the category of poor comprehenders. Also we found a group of students with difficulties in decoding skills but whose performance on comprehension tasks was normal, showing that not all learning disability students have poor comprehension.

scholarly journals Prevalence of Reading Comprehension Difficulties in Spanish

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-123
Author(s):  
Eduardo García ◽  
Juan E. Jiménez ◽  
Desirée González ◽  
Elisabeth Jiménez-Suárez
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
Learning Disability ◽  
Canary Islands ◽  
Second Grade ◽  
Decoding Skills ◽  
Large Sample ◽  
Specific Reading ◽  
Poor Comprehenders ◽  
Poor Comprehension

The main purpose of this research was to analyze the prevalence and diversity of reading comprehension difficulties in Spanish students of primary and secondary schools. We evaluated a large sample of students from the Canary Islands region that stretched from second grade of primary until the final year of secondary education. Once the percentage of students with reading comprehension difficulties was determined, we classified them in different categories: students with low intelligence, students with specific reading comprehension (poor comprehenders), students with deficit on reading words/pseudowords, absentee students and inmigrants. The results show that 20.2% of the student population present serious problems in understanding a text and 6.7% of the total is included in the category of poor comprehenders. Also we found a group of students with difficulties in decoding skills but whose performance on comprehension tasks was normal, showing that not all learning disability students have poor comprehension.

Higher-Level Language Strategy-Based Intervention for Poor Comprehenders: A pilot single case experimental design

2022 ◽  
pp. 026565902110710
Author(s):  
Katrina Kelso ◽  
Anne Whitworth ◽  
Suze Leitão
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Case Series ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Inference Making ◽  
Decoding Skills ◽  
Poor Comprehenders ◽  
Made In

In contrast to the large body of research investigating intervention for poor decoding skills, far fewer studies have evaluated interventions for reading comprehension. There is even less research on children with more specific difficulties with reading comprehension, often referred to as “poor comprehenders”. Levels of effectiveness have varied for interventions targeting lower- and higher-level language, including inference making, on trained measures, with little transfer to generalised reading comprehension measures in both skilled and less-skilled readers. Outcomes have been more positive for poor comprehenders, however findings have been inconsistent as to which programme components have led to gains in reading comprehension. This pilot study utilised a case series design to explore whether a novel intervention targeting oral inference making and comprehension monitoring was effective in improving the targeted skills and reading comprehension of 11 children, aged 9;2–12;3 years, with average-for-age phonological and lower-level language skills but weak inferencing. All participants improved on the primary inference subtest post-intervention and continued to score higher at maintenance than at pre-intervention. Results on the remaining higher-level language tasks were more varied, as were the results for reading comprehension, with fewer participants demonstrating generalisation to these tasks, particularly the nonfiction texts. While the results are preliminary and descriptive, they suggest that improvements can be made in higher-level language in a 10-session intervention, and provide directions for future research.

Linguistic and Cognitive Profiles of 8- to 15-Year-Old Children With Specific Reading Comprehension Difficulties

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Potocki ◽  
Monique Sanchez ◽  
Jean Ecalle ◽  
Annie Magnan
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Executive Functioning ◽  
Text Comprehension ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
Cognitive Profiles ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Specific Reading ◽  
Poor Comprehenders

This article presents two studies investigating the role of executive functioning in written text comprehension in children and adolescents. In a first study, the involvement of executive functions in reading comprehension performance was examined in normally developing children in fifth grade. Two aspects of text comprehension were differentiated: literal and inferential processes. The results demonstrated that while three aspects of executive functioning (working memory, planning, and inhibition processes) were significantly predictive of the performance on the inferential questions of the comprehension test, these factors did not predict the scores on the literal tasks of the test. In a second experiment, the linguistic and cognitive profiles of children in third/fifth and seventh/ninth grades with a specific reading comprehension deficit were examined. This analysis revealed that the deficits experienced by the less skilled comprehenders in both the linguistic and the executive domains could evolve over time. As a result, linguistic factors do not make it possible to distinguish between good and poor comprehenders among the group of older children, whereas the difficulties relating to executive processing remain stable over development. These findings are discussed in the context of the need to take account of the executive difficulties that characterize less skilled comprehenders of any age, especially for remediation purposes.

THE EFFECT OF USING WRITTEN RETELLING STRATEGY TOWARD THE STUDENTS READING COMPREHENSION AT THE SECOND GRADE OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL KARTIKATAMA METRO LAMPUNG INDONESIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-37
Author(s):  
Rana Wijaya ◽  
M.Ihsan Dacholfany
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Second Grade ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
Written Retelling

Reading is one of the important aspects of language learning. By reading, the learners get knowledge and information. But in reality, students are often ignoring to mastering this skill. It is the researchers found in the second grade of SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL Kartikatama Metro Lampung Indonesia, where students have difficulty in reading comprehension, so this leads to lower their learning. Therefore, to improve students' reading comprehension ability, researchers used Written Retelling Strategy (WRS) in the learning process.        The purpose of this study was to determine whether the use of Retelling Written Strategy (WRS) has a positive effect on students' reading comprehension in learning English. Written Retelling Strategy (WRS) considered as one strategy that makes students more active and fun in the learning process to comprehend some text.        Forms of this research are Quantitative Research conducted in two classes. Each class is divided into the trial and reserve grade. Author implements True Experimental Design (Pure Research) by applying a pre-test and post-test as an instrument. In accordance with the method of this study, the data were analyzed using t-test that allows knowing the difference between the experimental group that used a class of written retelling strategy and the control group who did not use written retelling strategy. Finally, the research data show that t observations = 3,590 and is included in the category of high impact. Furthermore, t observation T Table consult with a significance level of 5% = 2.010 and 1% = 2,682, the data states that t observations greater than the T Table, this could mean that Hi is received. And could mean that there is a positive and significant influence between experiment class and class control on the use of written retelling strategy at second grade of Senior High School  Kartikatama Metro.

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 IMPROVING STUDENTS’ READING COMPREHENSION THROUGH RECIPROCAL TEACHING STRATEGY ON REPORT TEXT

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 385
Author(s):  
Elisa Yulianti ◽  
Eko Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Second Grade ◽  
Learning Method ◽  
Teaching Reading ◽  
Reciprocal Learning ◽  
Know How ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Reciprocal Method ◽  
Report Text

The objectives of this research is to know how to use of reciprocal methods to teaching reading comprehension of the senior high school in second grade. The purpose of the research is to help students’ to cope the difficulties in reading report text, because there are still many students who find it difficult to read English and the lack of reading comprehension of students in class XI Animation of SMK TI Garuda Nusantara Cimahi with the aim of (1) how to implement the Reciprocal Learning method in increasing students' reading comprehension (2) whether there is an increase in student scores after using the Reciprocal Learning method.  The author uses the reciprocal method to increase the ability of students to read comprehension. This research is quantitative by using experimental research methods. After conducting the research obtained the data pre-test (80) and post-test (95). Based on these data, it can be concluded that the use of reciprocal methods in the report text material can improve reading comprehension in students of class XI Animation 2 Vocational School of TI Garuda Nusantara Cimahi.

scholarly journals THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ INTEREST AND THEIR READING COMPREHENSION LEVEL IN SHORT PASSAGES

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Jihan Alfaizah ◽  
Wahyuddin Naro ◽  
Kamsinah Kamsinah
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Correlation Coefficient ◽  
Alternative Hypothesis ◽  
Second Grade ◽  
Correlational Design ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Index Value ◽  
Reading Interest ◽  
Academic Year

The study aims at finding out the relationship between students’ interest and their reading comprehension level in short passages. This study was conducted at the second grade of Senior High School 10 of Gowa. The population of this study was all of the students in academic year 2019/2020 which consisted 265 students, and the sample was 30 students selected by using purposive method. The researcher applied correlational design. The researcher used the instrument to obtain the data, they were questionnaire and test. The scores from both instruments were calculated and analyzed by using statistical procedure of Product Moment Correlation to find out whether there was a correlation between the two variables or not. The result showed that there was low correlation with the index value of correlation coefficient (rxy) of 0.28. Furthermore, the hypothesis testing showed that the index value of correlation coefficient (rxy) of 0,28 was lower than the index value of correlation coefficient of the Product Moment table (rt) of 0,306 which meant that, the null hypothesis (H0) was accepted and alternative hypothesis (H1) was rejected. Therefore, students’ interest in short reading comprehension passages is in average level because only a few students are interested in English lesson especially those who have high interest and many vocabularies to learn English. Short Passages did not give a big impact on students’ interest and their achievement in reading comprehension because of some factors. There is not self-interest in reading, lack of vocabulary and support parents and all of school elements in order to improve the students’ reading interest optimally. The findings of this study might be used as the input for both teachers and students to improve students’ reading comprehension level.

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