The purpose of this study was to uncover any differences in the early reading and spelling
processes of children learning to read in a first language (L1) and children learning to read …

MOLLY FULLER COLLINS Boston University, Massachusetts, USA nterest in the
relationship between early language development and children's later reading skill has …

Vocabulary learning is dominant in language acquisition, whether the language is a second
or a foreign language, and crucial to the learners‟ overall language acquisition. One of the …

Although there is evidence for a close link between the development of oral vocabulary and
reading comprehension, less clear is whether oral vocabulary skills relate to the …

Reading comprehension is a multi-dimensional process that includes the reader, the text,
and factors associated with the activity of reading. Most research and theories of …

The present study investigated the role of vocabulary depth in reading comprehension
among a diverse sample of monolingual and bilingual children in grades 2–4. Vocabulary …

We report a longitudinal study investigating the predictors of reading comprehension and
word reading accuracy between the ages of 7 to 8 (UK Year 3) and 10 to 11 years (Year 6) …

Background Strong associations between infant vocabulary and school‐age language and
literacy skills would have important practical and theoretical implications: Preschool …

In this 8‐year longitudinal study, we traced the vocabulary growth of Chinese children,
explored potential precursors of vocabulary knowledge, and investigated how vocabulary …

Using nationally-representative, longitudinal data on a cohort of Spanish-speaking English
language learners in the US, this study investigated the extent to which early oral language …