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Direct linkKim, Young-Suk Grace – Grantee Submission, 2020
Theory of mind has received intensive attention in research as an important skill to develop. Furthermore, recent evidence indicates its role in discourse comprehension. In the current study, we examined the mediating role of theory of mind in the relations of foundational language and cognitive skills (working memory, attentional control,…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Thinking Skills, Short Term Memory, Attention Control
Jerae Kelly; Kelli Cummings – Reading Psychology, 2024
Theory of Mind (ToM) is a skill of social cognition recently of interest to literacy researchers. This article presents initial findings from a pilot study investigating the use of ToM to teach theme identification and theme statement formation to beginning readers who are less-skilled in comprehension. The authors designed a brief, 1:1 listening…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Inferences, Childrens Literature, Reading Instruction
Kim, Young-Suk Grace; Petscher, Yaacov – Annals of Dyslexia, 2021
We investigated the contributions of multiple strands of factors--individual characteristics (struggling reader status, working memory, vocabulary, grammatical knowledge, knowledge-based inference, theory of mind, comprehension monitoring), a text feature (narrative vs. expository genre), and question types (literal and inferential)--to one's…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Oral Language, Listening Comprehension, Elementary School Students
Kim, Young-Suk Grace – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
We investigated 2 hypotheses of a recently proposed integrative theoretical model of reading, the direct and indirect effects model of reading (DIER; Kim, 2017b, 2019): (a) hierarchical relations and (b) dynamic relations (or differential relations) of skills to reading comprehension. Students were assessed on reading comprehension, word reading,…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Cognitive Ability, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Kim, Young-Suk Grace; Petscher, Yaacov – Grantee Submission, 2020
We investigated the contributions of multiple strands of factors--individual characteristics (struggling reader status, working memory, vocabulary, grammatical knowledge, knowledge-based inference, theory of mind, comprehension monitoring), a text feature (narrative vs. expository genre), and question types (literal and inferential)--to one's…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Oral Language, Listening Comprehension, Elementary School Students
Kim, Young-Suk Grace – Grantee Submission, 2019
We investigated 2 hypotheses of a recently proposed integrative theoretical model of reading, the direct and indirect effects model of reading (DIER; Kim, 2017b, 2019): (a) hierarchical relations and (b) dynamic relations (or differential relations) of skills to reading comprehension. Students were assessed on reading comprehension, word reading,…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Cognitive Ability, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
