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The Relationship between Receptive Vocabulary and Word and Nonword Reading Skills in Monolingual and Language Minority Bilingual Children in Italy across Primary School Grades
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Valentina Persici; Tamara Bastianello; Erika Hoff; Marinella Majorano – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2025
The role of children's receptive vocabulary knowledge in word and nonword reading (decoding) in an orthographically transparent language is debated. Moreover, we have little understanding of how the role of vocabulary might differ between monolingual children and bilingual children from immigrant families (or language minority bilingual children…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Vocabulary Development, Reading Skills, Monolingualism
Vocabulary and Reading Speed in the Majority Language Are Affected by Maternal Language Proficiency and Language Exposure at Home: A Study of Language Minority Bilingual Children in Italy
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Persici, Valentina; Majorano, Marinella; Bastianello, Tamara; Hoff, Erika – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Environmental sources of variance in the Italian vocabulary and reading skills of bilingual primary school children from immigrant families (or language minority bilingual children (LMBC)) in Italy were investigated, and the LMBC's skill levels were compared to those of their monolingual classmates. A total of 140 children from the first, third,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 3
Reading Skills in Children with Mild to Borderline Intellectual Disability: A Cross-Sectional Study on Second to Eighth Graders
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Di Blasi, F. D.; Buono, S.; Cantagallo, C.; Di Filippo, G.; Zoccolotti, P. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2019
Background: Students with intellectual disabilities (IDs) have various learning difficulties and are at risk for school failure. Large inter-individual differences are described for reading, but it is unclear how these vary as a function of grade. The aim of this study was to examine various reading fluency, accuracy and comprehension parameters…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Children, Mild Intellectual Disability, Elementary School Students
Predictive and Concurrent Relations between Literacy Skills in Grades 1 and 3: A Longitudinal Study of Italian Children
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Desimoni, Marta; Scalisi, Teresa Gloria; Orsolini, Margherita – Learning and Instruction, 2012
A sample of 170 Italian children was assessed for reading accuracy, reading speed, text comprehension and spelling in Grades 1 and 3 in order to investigate the concurrent and longitudinal relationships among literacy skills. Main results from multivariate analyses (regression, discriminant and path analyses) indicated that reading speed was the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Predictor Variables, Correlation