A meta-analysis of the relation between syntactic skills and reading comprehension: a cross-linguistic and developmental investigation

X Tong, L Yu, SH Deacon - Review of educational research, 2024‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Theories of reading comprehension have widely predicted a role for syntactic skills, or the
ability to understand and manipulate the structure of a sentence. Yet, these theories are …

Continuity and change in the home literacy environment as predictors of growth in vocabulary and reading

M Sénéchal, JA LeFevre - Child development, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
One hundred and ten English‐speaking children schooled in French were followed from
kindergarten to Grade 2 (Mage: T1= 5; 6, T2= 6; 4, T3= 6; 11, T4= 7; 11). The findings …

Oral reading fluency as a screening tool with English learners: A systematic review

KW Newell, RS Codding… - Psychology in the …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Students learning to read in more than one language are a growing population in schools.
Early screening and identification of reading difficulties may lead to better outcomes for all …

Exploring trends in 21st century Canadian K-12 French as second language research: A research synthesis

S Arnott, M Masson, S Lapkin - Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2019‏ - erudit.org
This research synthesis aims to investigate the broader trends in K-12 French as a second
language (FSL) published research from 2000-2017 (inclusive). We assembled a database …

Effect of music training on promoting preliteracy skills: Preliminary causal evidence

S Moreno, D Friesen, E Bialystok - Music perception, 2011‏ - online.ucpress.edu
the present study investigated whether music training fosters children's preliteracy skills.
Sixty children were randomly assigned to participate in a 20-day training program in either …

Cross-language transfer of word reading accuracy and word reading fluency in Spanish-English and Chinese-English bilinguals: Script-universal and script-specific …

A Pasquarella, X Chen, A Gottardo… - Journal of Educational …, 2015‏ - psycnet.apa.org
This study examined cross-language transfer of word reading accuracy and word reading
fluency in Spanish–English and Chinese–English bilinguals. Participants included 51 …

Linguistic and metalinguistic outcomes of intense immersion education: How bilingual?

N Hermanto, S Moreno, E Bialystok - International journal of …, 2012‏ - Taylor & Francis
Anglophone children in Grades 2 and 5 who attended an intensive French immersion
program were examined for linguistic and metalinguistic ability in English and French …

An emergent interaction between reading fluency and vocabulary in the prediction of reading comprehension among French immersion elementary students

K Lee, X Chen - Reading and Writing, 2019‏ - Springer
This study investigated an emergent interaction between word reading fluency and
vocabulary knowledge in the prediction of reading comprehension among French …

Cross-language transfer in English immersion programs in Germany: Reading comprehension and reading fluency

SK Gebauer, ACM Zaunbauer, J Möller - Contemporary Educational …, 2013‏ - Elsevier
Cross-language effects on reading skills are of particular interest in the context of foreign
language immersion programs. Although there is an extensive literature on cross-language …

Longitudinal predictors of spelling and reading comprehension in Chinese as an L1 and English as an L2 in Hong Kong Chinese children.

T Li, C McBride-Chang, A Wong… - Journal of Educational …, 2012‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Predictors of age 10 spelling and reading comprehension skills in both Chinese and English
from vocabulary knowledge, phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming (RAN) …