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Direct linkTalwar, Amani; Greenberg, Daphne; Tighe, Elizabeth L.; Li, Hongli – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
Research with school-age readers suggests that the contributions of reading and language skills vary across reading comprehension assessments and proficiency levels. With a sample of 168 struggling adult readers, we estimated the explanatory effects of decoding, oral vocabulary, listening comprehension, fluency, background knowledge, and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Language Skills, Reading Difficulties
Download full textTalwar, Amani; Greenberg, Daphne; Tighe, Elizabeth L.; Li, Hongli – Grantee Submission, 2021
Research with school-age readers suggests that the contributions of reading and language skills vary across reading comprehension assessments and proficiency levels. With a sample of 168 struggling adult readers, we estimated the explanatory effects of decoding, oral vocabulary, listening comprehension, fluency, background knowledge, and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Language Skills, Reading Difficulties
McKoon, Gai; Ratcliff, Roger – Grantee Submission, 2016
Millions of adults in the United States lack the necessary literacy skills for most living wage jobs. For students from adult learning classes, we used a lexical decision task to measure their knowledge of words and we used a decision-making model (Ratcliff's, 1978, diffusion model) to abstract the mechanisms underlying their performance from…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Psycholinguistics, Memory, Decision Making
Stahl, Steven A. – 1990
Globally, knowledge of word meanings is related to reading comprehension. R. C. Anderson and P. Freebody's (1981) seminal paper on vocabulary set forth three hypotheses to explain this relationship--an "instrumentalist" hypothesis suggesting that knowledge of word meanings directly causes reading comprehension, and "general…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Learning Processes, Learning Theories, Models
PDF pending restorationKurfman, Dana G., Ed. – 1977
This 47th Yearbook of the National Council for the Social Studies is intended to help elementary and secondary teachers improve students' capacities for making good decisions. Both background readings and learning exercises for teachers and activities which can be used in the classroom with students are provided. Chapter one discusses decision…
Descriptors: Decision Making Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Group Dynamics
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 22 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: a remedial reading program for Marine recruits; methods for improving reading flexibility and rate, spelling ability, vocabulary comprehension, and study skills in…
Descriptors: Academically Handicapped, Adult Basic Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Basic Skills
PDF pending restorationAmerican Association of State Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC. – 1983
The Cortland College Skills Center at the State University of New York, Cortland, helps students learn how they learn best, providing assistance in reading, writing, researching, listening, speaking, vocabulary, study skills, math, and standardized test preparation. Services are offered for learning disabled (LD) and handicapped students, and the…
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