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Oakhill, Jane; Cain, Kate; Nesi, Barbara – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2016
This article reports a study in which good and poor comprehenders (in 2 age groups: 8- and 10-year-olds) read short passages containing phrases that could be interpreted as idiomatic or not, depending on the context. Familiarity was manipulated by including real (English) idioms and novel (translations of Italian) idioms. Reading times for the…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Reading Comprehension, Children, Age Differences