research articles on reading comprehension

Reading comprehension is one of the most complex behaviors in which humans engage. Reading theorists have grappled with how to comprehensively and meaningfully portray reading comprehension and many different theoretical models have been proposed in recent decades (McNamara & Magliano, 2009; Perfetti & Stafura, 2014).These models range from broad theoretical models depicting the relationships ...

Decades of research offer important understandings about the nature of comprehension and its development. Drawing on both classic and contemporary research, in this article, we identify some key understandings about reading comprehension processes and instruction, including these: Comprehension instruction should begin early, teaching word-reading and bridging skills (including ...

Abstract. This study synthesized the correlation between reading strategy and reading comprehension of four categories based on Weinstein and Mayer's reading strategy model. The current meta-analysis obtained 57 effect sizes that represented 21,548 readers, and all selected materials came from empirical studies published from 1998 to 2019.

The Role of Domain Knowledge. The Construction-Integration model identifies a critical role for background knowledge in reading (Kintsch, Citation 1998; Kintsch & Van Dijk, Citation 1978).Knowledge can be classified according to its specificity; background knowledge comprises all of the world knowledge that the reader brings to the task of reading. This can include episodic (events ...

This review is a guide to direct future research, broadening the study focus on the level of reading comprehension using digital technology, experimental designs, second languages, and investigations that relate reading comprehension with other factors (gender, cognitive abilities, etc.) that can explain the heterogeneity in the different ...

Many children and adolescents demonstrate limited motivation and engagement in reading (); on average, 40% of students, sampled from 50 countries, reported being only "somewhat" or "less than" engaged in their reading lessons (PIRLS, 2016).Moreover, although worldwide students' reading achievement has improved in the last two decades (Mullis, Martin, Foy & Hooper, 2017), many ...

Although a substantial number of studies have found vocabulary knowledge to be a significant predictor of reading success in L2 learners and have established certain vocabulary size and lexical coverage targets for comprehension (e.g., Hazenberg & Hulstijn, 1996; Hu & Nation, 2000; Laufer, 1992a; Nation, 2006; Schmitt, Jiang, & Grabe, 2011), most of those studies have predominantly focused on ...

Abstract —This research aimed to investigate the effectiveness. of reading strategies on reading comprehension of the second. year English major students who enrolled to study English. Reading ...

It is a peer-reviewed journal principally devoted to reports of original empirical research in reading and closely related fields (e.g., spoken language, writing), and to informed reviews of relevant literature. The Journal welcomes papers on the learning, teaching, and use of literacy in adults or children in a variety of contexts, with a ...

Introduction. Reading comprehension is a fundamental cognitive ability for children, that supports school achievement and successively participation in most areas of adult life (Hulme and Snowling, 2011).Therefore, children with learning disabilities (LD) and special educational needs who show difficulties in text comprehension, sometimes also in association with other problems, may have an ...

Research into how reading comprehension is addressed in teacher training programmes. ... This was the same issue found in many of the studies in the USA and UK, as outlined in the introduction to reading comprehension in this article. Explicit identification of approaches that impacted on outcomes.

Reading comprehension, or the process of engaging text for the purpose of extracting and constructing meaning (), has paramount importance to academic success and future life outcomes (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [NICHD], 2000; Snow, 2002).Yet only about 36% of fourth graders and 34% eighth graders in the United States have reading comprehension scores at or above ...

reading comprehension is measured and research that addresses this concern is reviewed. Suggests related to how reading comprehension can be improved are presented. Keywords: reading comprehension, strategies, testing Introduction Reading is an activity performed to develop an understanding of a subject or topic.

Doing so requires drawing on extant research to understand the core components and processes of reading comprehension. This article reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on the construction of meaning during reading comprehension and derives implications for research, practice, and policy related to instruction and assessment.

Considering the research foci and findings, we identified seven categories: (a) comparison of the strategy use in L1 and L2 reading; (b) comparison of EAL readers' and monolinguals' comprehension strategy use; (c) different L1 groups' strategy use; (d) the role of languages in the strategy use; (e) the relationship between reading proficiency and comprehension strategy use; (f) strategies in ...

The research question is, The purpose of this study was to analyze the improvement of the students reading skills after they have taken presentations on reading strategies. 712 Hülya KüçükoÄŸlu / Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 70 ( 2013 ) 709 â€" 714 3.Method Reading proficiency is the most fundamental skill for ...

For many years, reading instruction was based on a concept of reading as the application of a set of isolated skills such as identifying words, finding main ideas, identifying cause and effect relationships, comparing and contrasting and sequencing. Comprehension was viewed as the mastery of these skills. One important classroom study conducted ...

1 The project from which data were drawn for the current study was also used in two studies described above Ardoin et al. (Citation 2019, Citation 2024).We also have a manuscript under review employing data drawn from this same project that examines the time participants spent reading in the question region and how that time varies as related to student characteristics and students' response ...

Abstract. The science of reading should be informed by an evolving evidence base built upon the scientific method. Decades of basic research and randomized controlled trials of interventions and instructional routines have formed a substantial evidence base to guide best practices in reading instruction, reading intervention, and the early ...

Amy M. Elleman, Middle Tennessee State University, P.O. Box 69, Murfreesboro, TN 37132, USA. Email: [email protected]. In this article, we briefly review the theoretical and empir-ical research in comprehension and consider the reasons for stagnant scores in reading comprehension in the United States.

This blog post is part of our Research Article of the Month series. For this month, we highlight " Beyond Decoding: A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Language Comprehension Interventions on K-5 Students' Language and Literacy Outcomes," an article published in the journal Reading Research Quarterly in 2020. Important words related to research are bolded, and definitions of these terms ...

Findings reveal that key areas in ERP research on language processing predominantly focus on sentence comprehension, reading comprehension, and mismatch negativity, with notable emphasis on topics such as speech perception, temporal dynamics, and working memory. The current study advocates for future investigations to concentrate on larger ...

Fluent word reading is hypothesized to facilitate reading comprehension by improving automatic word reading, thus releasing a reader's cognitive resources to focus on meaning. ... studies in this corpus did not report comprehension measures when an adult modeled fluent reading. Research is also needed to compare the effects of RR with adult ...

Further research investigating the prevalence of low HL in the general population and actions focused on health education, communication, and information are necessary. ... The pooled prevalence of low HL were 44.02% (95%CI: 36.12-52.24) for reading and numeracy comprehension items, 50.62% (95%CI: 41.82-59.39) for word recognition items ...

unofficial reading lessons, supporting their reading comprehension. 22. Wide recreational reading expands pupils' knowledge about the world and about language, as well as their understanding of subject-specific academic and technical vocabulary. 23. Such knowledge eases their access to the whole curriculum. Higher

Whereas research by Drechsel et al. (2014) indicated that teaching university students how to teach reading strategies can be useful for one-on-one tutoring, our research took this a step further by providing students with the competence to teach a scientifically based reading instruction program to an entire class in regular lessons.

These findings are in line with a previous research syntheses on reading comprehension outcomes with older students (Edmonds et al., 2009; Scammacca et al., 2007). Two of the studies addressed fluency in which repeated reading of text was compared with continuous reading. The amount of time students read the text was held constant but in one ...

Despite decades of research in reading comprehension, international and national reading scores indicate stagnant growth for U.S. adolescents. In this article, we review the theoretical and empirical research in reading comprehension. We first explore different theoretical models for comprehension and then focus on components shown to be ...