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What's in a Name Depends on the Type of Name: The Relationships between Semantic and Phonological Access, Reading Fluency, and Reading Comprehension
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Poulsen, Mads; Elbro, Carsten – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2013
The present study investigated the relationships between lexical access, reading fluency, and comprehension. Two components of speed of lexical access were studied: phonological and semantic. Previous studies have mainly investigated these components of lexical access separately. The present study examined both components in naming tasks--with…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Semantics, Phonology
Who Did What to Whom? The Relationship between Syntactic Aspects of Sentence Comprehension and Text Comprehension
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Poulsen, Mads; Gravgaard, Amalie K. D. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2016
This study investigated the relationship between syntactic comprehension at the sentence level and text-level comprehension. The study isolated the specific contribution of syntax by asking whether sentence comprehension efficiency of difficult syntactic constructions explained variance in text comprehension after controlling for sentence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Elementary School Students, Grade 5