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Direct linkBrenda Aromu Wawire; Gorrety Nafula Wawire; Francis Kiroro – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
This research explores structural relations among the component skills of reading comprehension in Kiswahili. Furthermore, the study examines the relationship between socio-economic status, home and school language use, and home literacy environment with Kiswahili reading outcomes. The study utilized secondary data from the baseline Tusome…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Reading Comprehension, Socioeconomic Status
Wawire, Brenda Aromu; Liang, Xinya; Piper, Benjamin – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2023
The present study examined the mediating role of text reading fluency in reading comprehension in English and Kiswahili utilizing longitudinal data from 628 first- and second-grade children from multilingual contexts in Kenya. We employed path analysis to explore the mediating role of text reading fluency on decoding and reading comprehension in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, English, Reading Fluency
Platas, Linda M.; Perry, Lindsey; Piper, Benjamin; Sitabkhan, Yasmin; Ketterlin-Geller, Leanne – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2022
Using a longitudinal data set, this paper examines to what extent school-entry (N = 553; mean age 6.32 years) early mathematics and literacy skills predict students' later achievement in a lower-middle-income country, Kenya. Controlling for socioeconomic status, intervention status, rural versus urban settings and parental literacy, the findings…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
Kim, Young-Suk Grace; Piper, Benjamin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
The linguistic interdependence hypothesis (Cummins, 1979, 2000) states that children's second-language (L2) proficiency is, to some extent, a function of their first-language (L1) competence. Previous studies have examined this hypothesis with focus on a unidirectional relation from L1 to L2. In the present study, we examined…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Reading Skills, Longitudinal Studies, African Languages
Download full textKim, Young-Suk Grace; Piper, Benjamin – Grantee Submission, 2019
The linguistic interdependence hypothesis (Cummins, 1979, 2000) states that children's second-language (L2) proficiency is, to some extent, a function of their first-language (L1) competence. Previous studies have examined this hypothesis with focus on a unidirectional relation from L1 to L2. In the present study, we examined…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Reading Skills, Second Language Learning, Native Language
