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Text Reading Speed in a Language with a Shallow Orthography Benefits Less from Comprehension as Reading Ability Matures
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Carretti, Barbara; Toffalini, Enrico; Saponaro, Cosmiana; Viola, Francesco; Cornoldi, Cesare – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Background: Reading can be assessed using different materials, including non-words and texts. Unlike reading words or non-words, reading a text may be supported by reading comprehension, and the extent of this support could change with the amount of schooling. Aim: The present study aimed to examine how reading decoding in a shallow orthography…
Descriptors: Reading Rate, Reading Comprehension, Decoding (Reading), Italian
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
The Simple View of Reading in Bilingual Language-Minority Children Acquiring a Highly Transparent Second Language
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Bonifacci, Paola; Tobia, Valentina – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2017
The present study evaluated which components within the simple view of reading model better predicted reading comprehension in a sample of bilingual language-minority children exposed to Italian, a highly transparent language, as a second language. The sample included 260 typically developing bilingual children who were attending either the first…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Bilingualism, Reading Comprehension, Predictor Variables
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
Foreign Language Learning Difficulties in Italian Children: Are They Associated with Other Learning Difficulties?
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Ferrari, Marcella; Palladino, Paola – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2007
A group of seventh- and eighth-grade Italian students with low achievement (LA) in learning English as a foreign language (FL) was selected and compared to a group with high achievement (HA) in FL learning. The two groups were matched for age and nonverbal intelligence. Two experiments were conducted to examine the participants' verbal and…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Low Achievement, High Achievement, Second Language Learning