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Nation, Kate; Clarke, Paula; Marshall, Catherine M.; Durand, Marianne – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2004
This study investigates the oral language skills of 8-year-old children with impaired reading comprehension. Despite fluent and accurate reading and normal nonverbal ability, these children are poor at understanding what they have read. Tasks tapping 3 domains of oral language, namely phonology, semantics, and morphosyntax, were administered,…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Semantics, Phonology, Language Skills