The purpose of this study was to determine the relation between reading and working
memory (WM) in the context of 3 major theories: the domain-specificity theory (debate) of …

The authors report a systematic meta-analytic review of the relationships among 3 of the
most widely studied measures of children's phonological skills (phonemic awareness, rime …

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 set out to investigate the relationship between L2 vocabulary knowledge (VK) and
second-language (L2) reading/listening comprehension. More than 100 individual studies …

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

Practical, effective, evidence-based reading interventions that change students' lives
Essentials of Understanding and Assessing Reading Difficulties is a practical, accessible, in …

The main aim was to analyse the effect of 8 weeks of Pokémon GO on cognitive
performance (memory, selective attention, concentration, mathematical calculation and …

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

A comprehensive manual for pre-and in-service ESL, EFL, and EIL educators who work with
multilingual students at the secondary and postsecondary levels, this text balances insights …