Augmenting the simple view of reading for struggling adult readers: A unique role for background knowledge

A Talwar, E L. Tighe, D Greenberg - Scientific Studies of Reading, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This study explored the background knowledge (BK) and reading comprehension (RC)
relationship for struggling adult readers. Using confirmatory factor analyses, a single-factor …

Functional illiteracy and developmental dyslexia: looking for common roots. A systematic review

R Vágvölgyi, K Bergström, A Bulajić, M Klatte… - Journal of Cultural …, 2021 - Springer
A considerable amount of the population in more economically developed countries are
functionally illiterate (ie, low literate). Despite some years of schooling and basic reading …

[图书][B] La comprensión lectora en la enseñanza del español LE/L2: de la teoría a la práctica

V Rodrigo - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
La comprensión lectora en la enseñanza del español LE/L2: de la teoría a la práctica
presents state-of-the-art theory and teaching practices for integrating reading skills into the …

Do struggling adult readers monitor their reading? Understanding the role of online and offline comprehension monitoring processes during reading

EL Tighe, G Kaldes, A Talwar… - Journal of Learning …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Comprehension monitoring is a meta-cognitive skill that is defined as the ability to self-
evaluate one's comprehension of text. Although it is known that struggling adult readers are …

Oral language comprehension of young adults with low-level reading comprehension

I Bar-Kochva, R Vágvölgyi, J Schrader… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Significant difficulties in reading comprehension, despite attendance of compulsory
schooling, are a worldwide phenomenon. While previous research on adults with low …

Exploring moderational and mediational relations among word reading, vocabulary, sentence processing and comprehension for struggling adult readers

DP Feller, A Talwar, D Greenberg… - Journal of Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background A significant portion of adults struggle to read at a basic level. Word reading
(defined here as decoding and word recognition) appears to play a pivotal role for this …

Low-skilled adult readers look like typically developing child readers: A comparison of reading skills and eye movement behavior

AE Barnes, YS Kim - Reading and Writing, 2016 - Springer
Adults enrolled in basic education exhibit poor academic performance, often reading at
elementary and middle-school levels. The current study investigated the similarities and …

[HTML][HTML] Do easy-to-read adaptations really facilitate sentence processing for adults with a lower level of education? An experimental eye-tracking study

M Rivero-Contreras, PE Engelhardt, D Saldana - Learning and Instruction, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Easy-to-Read guidelines recommend visual support and lexical simplification
to facilitate text processing, but few studies have empirically verified the efficacy of these …

Eye movements of developing Chinese readers: Effects of word frequency and predictability

N Liu, X Wang, G Yan, KB Paterson… - Scientific studies of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The frequency and contextual predictability of words have a fundamental role in determining
where and when the eyes move during reading in both alphabetic and non-alphabetic …

Unpacking the simple view of Reading for struggling adult readers

A Talwar, D Greenberg, EL Tighe… - Journal of Learning …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The Simple View of Reading (SVR), which posits that reading comprehension is the product
of decoding and linguistic comprehension, has been studied extensively with school-age …