In typical school classrooms, children are required to listen in environments with poor acoustics and to process and comprehend complex messages from the teacher and from peers in order to achieve academic success. To predict children’s listening abilities in the classroom, research is warranted to begin to examine the specifi c aspects of comprehension that are most affected when listening in ...

According to Gough and Tunmer's Simple View of Reading, Reading Comprehension = Decoding (D) x Listening Comprehension (C). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the model with a sample of First Nations children, known to have average decoding and listening comprehension but poor reading comprehension. In addition, the authors examined the contribution of naming speed and phonological aware...

BACKGROUND Metacognition and working memory (WM) have been found associated with success in reading comprehension, but no studies have examined their combined effect on the training of reading comprehension. Another open question concerns the role of listening comprehension: In particular, it is not clear whether training to improve reading comprehension must necessarily be based on processing ...

Recent advance in neuropsychology has evidenced a facilitative role of sensorimotor activity for the development in L2 speech perception. The study attempted to examine the relationship between reading aloud (RA) performance, grammatical knowledge and listening ability with 31 college-level Japanese EFL users. The result demonstrated highly significant correlations between all the variables, an...

Based on the assumption that good decoding skills constitute a bootstrapping mechanism for reading comprehension, the present study investigated the relative contribution of the former skill to the latter compared to that of three other predictors of reading comprehension (listening comprehension, vocabulary and phonemic awareness) in 392 French-speaking first graders from low SES families. Thi...

Chapelle (2003) proposed three general types of input enhancement that help L2 learners “acquire features the linguistic they are exposed to during course reading or listening for meaning” (p. 40): salience, modification, and elaboration. In 2010, Cárdenas-Claros Gruba argued Chapelle’s different “can be have been operationalized through options” primarily utilized in teaching reading, listenin...

This article presents the ENglish Reading Online (ENRO) project that offers data on English reading and listening comprehension from 7,338 university-level advanced learners native speakers of representing 19 countries. The database also includes estimates rate seven component skills English, including vocabulary, spelling, grammar, as well rich demographic language background data. We first de...