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Direct linkNouwens, Suzan; Groen, Margriet A.; Kleemans, Tijs; Verhoeven, Ludo – Journal of Research in Reading, 2018
Background: The lexical quality hypothesis proposes that successful reading comprehension requires high quality lexical representations, which allow for efficient retrieval. These retrieval operations have however not been specified. Methods: We investigated the contribution of semantic retrieval to reading comprehension in 119 Dutch children in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semantics, Reading Comprehension, Elementary School Students
Fesel, Sabine S.; Segers, Eliane; Verhoeven, Ludo – Journal of Research in Reading, 2018
The present study examined children's digital text comprehension of digital text types linear digital text vs hypertext, with or without graphical navigable overviews. We investigated to what extent individual variation in children's comprehension could be explained by lexical quality (word reading efficiency and vocabulary knowledge), cognitive…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Individual Differences, Electronic Learning, Electronic Publishing
Veenendaal, Nathalie J.; Groen, Margriet A.; Verhoeven, Ludo – Reading Research Quarterly, 2016
The aim of the present study was to examine the relation between decoding and segmental and suprasegmental phonology, and their contribution to reading comprehension, in the upper primary grades. Following a longitudinal design, the performance of 99 Dutch primary school students on phonological awareness (segmental phonology) and text-reading…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Decoding (Reading), Phonological Awareness, Reading Comprehension
Veenendaal, Nathalie J.; Groen, Margriet A.; Verhoeven, Ludo – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine the directionality of the relationship between text reading prosody and reading comprehension in the upper grades of primary school. We compared 3 theoretical possibilities: Two unidirectional relations from text reading prosody to reading comprehension and from reading comprehension to text reading prosody…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Elementary School Students, Longitudinal Studies, Foreign Countries
van Hoogmoed, Anne H.; Knoors, Harry; Schreuder, Robert; Verhoeven, Ludo – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
Children who are deaf are often delayed in reading comprehension. This delay could be due to problems in morphological processing during word reading. In this study, we investigated whether 6th grade deaf children and adults are delayed in comparison to their hearing peers in reading complex derivational words and compounds compared to…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Familiarity, Morphemes, Reading Comprehension
Wagensveld, Barbara; Segers, Eliane; Kleemans, Tijs; Verhoeven, Ludo – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2015
We examined the role child factors on the acquisition and transfer of learning the control of variables strategy (CVS) via instruction or self-discovery. Seventy-six fourth graders and 43 sixth graders were randomly assigned to a group receiving direct CVS instruction or a discovery learning group. Prior to the intervention, cognitive, scientific,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 6, Transfer of Training
