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Examining the Reading-Related Competencies of Struggling Adult Readers: Nuances across Reading Comprehension Assessments and Performance Levels
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Talwar, Amani; Greenberg, Daphne; Tighe, Elizabeth L.; Li, Hongli – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Research with school-age readers suggests that the contributions of reading and language skills vary across reading comprehension assessments and proficiency levels. With a sample of 168 struggling adult readers, we estimated the explanatory effects of decoding, oral vocabulary, listening comprehension, fluency, background knowledge, and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Language Skills, Reading Difficulties
Examining the Reading-Related Competencies of Struggling Adult Readers: Nuances across Reading Comprehension Assessments and Performance Levels
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Talwar, Amani; Greenberg, Daphne; Tighe, Elizabeth L.; Li, Hongli – Grantee Submission, 2021
Research with school-age readers suggests that the contributions of reading and language skills vary across reading comprehension assessments and proficiency levels. With a sample of 168 struggling adult readers, we estimated the explanatory effects of decoding, oral vocabulary, listening comprehension, fluency, background knowledge, and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Language Skills, Reading Difficulties
Evaluating Language Group Differences in the Subskills of Reading Using a Cognitive Diagnostic Modeling and Differential Skill Functioning Approach
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Li, Hongli – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Using a sequential mixed-methods design, this study examined the differences between two native language groups--those with an East Asian language background and those with a Romance language background--in regard to reading subskills as represented in the Michigan English Language Assessment Battery (MELAB) reading test, so as to provide…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language Usage, Native Language, Asians