We report a systematic meta-analytic review of studies comparing reading comprehension
and its underlying components (language comprehension, decoding, and phonological …

This chapter reviews research on L1ers' individual differences in the proficiency of
understanding and speaking their L1, as a function of age and/or level of education. In …

The present meta‐analysis examined the overall average correlation (weighted for sample
size and corrected for measurement error) between passage‐level second language (L2) …

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 …

This paper focuses on the advantages that bilinguals have over monolinguals when
acquiring an additional language. Bilinguals are more experienced language learners and …

This volume focuses on research in bilingual and multilingual education. It discusses the
results of research conducted in different multilingual educational contexts and particularly …

What distinguishes this book is its broad, yet thorough, view of theory, process, and research
on adult second-language reading. Offering extensive discussions of upper-register second …

This chapter builds on prior reviews of reading theory, research, and assessment published
in the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics and uses them and additional current research …

The present study was developed to assess teachers' beliefs on (1) the role of prior
language knowledge in language learning;(2) the perceived usefulness of language …

Accumulated recent research suggests that prior knowledge of multiple languages leads to
advantages in learning additional languages. In the current article, we review studies …