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

Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many
of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second …

Developmental dyslexia, reading disability, and reading impairment all refer to unexpected
and unexplained poor performance in reading. Expected levels of reading performance can …

The aim of this study was to investigate the functional organisation of working memory and
related cognitive abilities in young children. A sample of 633 children aged between 4 and 6 …

Provides an overview of state-of-the-art research on the science of reading, revised and
updated throughout The Science of Reading presents the most recent advances in the study …

Very few studies have directly compared reading acquisition across different orthographies.
The authors examined the concurrent and longitudinal predictors of word decoding and …

The effects of classroom noise and background speech on speech perception, measured by
word-to-picture matching, and listening comprehension, measured by execution of oral …

Children are more impaired than adults by unfavorable listening conditions such as
reverberation and noise. Nevertheless, the acoustical conditions in classrooms often do not …

In this two‐year longitudinal study, we sought to examine the developmental relationships
among early narrative listening comprehension and language skills (ie, vocabulary …

This study examined the dynamic relationships among the components of the Simple View
of Reading (SVR) in a transparent orthography (Finnish) and the predictive value of …