28.1821, Books: Individual differences in reading comprehension: Welie
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Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 19:46:59
From: Jolanda Rozendaal [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Individual differences in reading comprehension: Welie
Title: Individual differences in reading comprehension
Subtitle: A componential approach to eighth graders' expository text comprehension
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series
Publication Year: 2017
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
http://www.lotpublications.nl/
Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/individual-differences-in-reading-comprehension
Author: Camille Welie
Paperback: ISBN: 9789460932 Pages: Price: ----
Abstract:
Why do secondary school students differ in their text comprehension? This is
an important question, because many secondary school students lack the level
of text comprehension required to enable learning from their school book
texts. This thesis contributes to answering this question, by focusing on
individual differences that could explain why secondary school students differ
in their comprehension of expository texts.
In earlier research, sentence reading fluency, general vocabulary knowledge
and metacognitive knowledge have been identified as important components of
skilled reading comprehension. This thesis examines whether knowledge of
connectives, text reading fluency, text structure inference skill and reading
motivation are components that add to the understanding of the individual
differences in reading comprehension. Furthermore, it is examined whether the
contribution of these four components depends on readers’ language backgrounds
(monolinguals versus bilinguals) or on their level of other cognitive
resources.
The results show that knowledge of connectives and text structure inference
skill make an additional contribution to eighth graders’ expository text
comprehension, whereas text reading fluency and reading motivation do not.
Language background and cognitive resources do not impact the contribution of
any of the four components, with one exception: the contribution of knowledge
of connectives is reinforced by readers’ metacognitive knowledge.
This book contributes to our understanding of expository text comprehension
skill and as such hopes to contribute to improved text comprehension among
secondary school students.
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
Language Acquisition
Sociolinguistics
Written In: English (eng)
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