Bilingual people are often claimed to have an advantage over monolingual people in
cognitive processing owing to their ability to learn and use two languages. This advantage is …

There is a growing awareness of the importance of academic vocabulary, and more
generally, of academic language proficiency, for students' success in school. There is also a …

This article presents our new Academic Vocabulary List (AVL), derived from a 120-million-
word academic subcorpus of the 425-million-word Corpus of Contemporary American …

The two major determinants of reading comprehension are language comprehension and
decoding, but prior studies of the development of reading comprehension from an early age …

Hundreds of thousands of teachers have used this highly practical guide to help K–12
students enlarge their vocabulary and get involved in noticing, understanding, and using …

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

This extensively revised and expanded edition of the bestselling text and teaching resource
incorporates the newest research in vocabulary learning and instruction into a complete and …

We investigated the effect of writing interventions on written composition for students in
primary grades (K-G3) with a focus on whether effects vary as a function of different …

Despite the current theoretical momentum for the importance of academic English and the
acknowledgment that academic materials increase in complexity through the grades, little …

Abstract SPAULL, Nicholas; PRETORIUS, Elizabeth and MOHOHLWANE, Nompumelelo.
Investigating the comprehension iceberg: Developing empirical benchmarks for early-grade …