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Joshua F. Lawrence; Rebecca Knoph; Autumn McIlraith; Paulina A. Kulesz; David J. Francis – Reading Research Quarterly, 2022
General academic words are those which are typically learned through exposure to school texts and occur across disciplines. We examined academic vocabulary assessment data from a group of English-speaking middle school students (N = 1,747). We tested how word frequency, complexity, proximity, polysemy, and diversity related to students' knowledge…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Academic Language, Word Frequency, Difficulty Level
Phillips Galloway, Emily; McClain, Janna Brown; Uccelli, Paola – Reading Research Quarterly, 2020
Merging evidence from psychological models of reading comprehension, ethnographic research on language and literacy, and textual linguistics lines of research, the authors take the position that psychological models of reading comprehension often overlook written language comprehension and production as context-embedded, sociocultural processes.…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Reading Comprehension, Middle School Students, Reading Skills
Pae, Tae-Il – Reading Research Quarterly, 2019
This study examines relations between the first language (L1) and second language (L2) in reading and writing for 211 upper middle school Korean students learning English as a foreign language. Results using path analysis suggest that L1 ability is a significant independent predictor of L2 ability in both reading and writing, providing evidence of…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Transfer of Training, English (Second Language)
Kim, James S.; Hemphill, Lowry; Troyer, Margaret; Thomson, Jenny M.; Jones, Stephanie M.; LaRusso, Maria D.; Donovan, Suzanne – Reading Research Quarterly, 2017
This study examined the efficacy of a supplemental, multicomponent adolescent reading intervention for middle school students who scored below proficient on a state literacy assessment. Using a within-school experimental design, the authors randomly assigned 483 students in grades 6-8 to a business-as-usual control condition or to the Strategic…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, Reading Difficulties, Adolescents
Lee, Juhee; Schallert, Diane L. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2016
A yearlong classroom-based intervention was designed to explore the reading-writing connection in second-language literacy by examining whether the development of reading improves writing and vice versa. Middle school learners of English as a foreign language (N = 300) in South Korea were assigned to three treatments that involved extensive…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Reading Writing Relationship, Literacy, Literacy Education