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- Title
Reading Comprehension Deficits in Adolescents: Addressing Underlying Language Abilities.
- Authors
Nippold, Marilyn A.
- Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to discuss reading comprehension deficits in adolescents in relation to their word reading skills and lexical and syntactic development. Although reading comprehension strategies (e.g., "Find the main idea") are often recommended, it is argued that before these can be effective, students' underlying language deficits should be addressed. Method: Data from a longitudinal study are analyzed to determine the relationship between reading comprehension, word reading, and lexical and syntactic development in adolescents. Results: The findings indicate that poor reading comprehension in adolescents is predicted by concurrent deficits in word reading ability, lexical development, and syntactic development. Conclusion: When poor comprehension is accompanied by deficits in word reading ability and/or lexical and syntactic development, intervention should target the underlying areas of deficiency. Studies designed to improve reading comprehension in adolescents are needed.
- Subjects
OREGON; LANGUAGE disorders; ABILITY; STATISTICAL correlation; COMPARATIVE grammar; LANGUAGE acquisition; PROBABILITY theory; READING; RESEARCH funding; SCHOOLS; STATISTICS; DATA analysis; MULTIPLE regression analysis; PHONOLOGICAL awareness; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ONE-way analysis of variance; ADOLESCENCE; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Language, Speech & Hearing Services in Schools, 2017, Vol 48, Issue 2, p125
- ISSN
0161-1461
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1044/2016_LSHSS-16-0048