Background: This study examines the role of decoding and vocabulary skills as longitudinal
predictors of reading comprehension in young first (L1) and second (L2) language learners …

Background The present study examined patterns and predictors of reading comprehension
growth in first language (L1) and second language (L2) readers in the upper grades of …

Listening comprehension and word decoding are the two major determinants of the
development of reading comprehension. The relative importance of different language skills …

This study investigated individual differences in vocabulary acquisition in 8–9-year-old
children with impaired reading comprehension. Despite fluent and accurate reading, age …

The present study investigated language skills and reading comprehension with English
monolingual and Spanish–English bilingual children in grades 2–5. Of the 377 children in …

The present study followed a sample of first‐grade (N= 316, Mage= 7.05 at first test) through
fourth‐grade students to evaluate dynamic developmental relations between vocabulary …

Specific effects of word decoding, vocabulary and listening comprehension abilities on the
development of reading comprehension were longitudinally examined for a representative …

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 …

The aim of this study was to examine variation in early reading comprehension development
for second language (L2) readers compared with first language (L1) readers and to …

This study examined factors related to reading comprehension in adolescents who spoke
English as a first language (L1) and English as a second language (L2). Measures of …