Working memory deficits in poor comprehenders reflect underlying language impairments

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Memory skills in good and poor comprehenders were assessed, using experiments investigating phonological and semantic contributions to short-term memory and verbal and spatial working memory. Normal sensitivity to phonological manipulations was shown by poor comprehenders, although abstract word recall was poor. Poor comprehenders achieved normal spatial spans, although verbal spans were impaired.

Research, Memory, Reading disability, Reading disorders

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Investigating individual differences in children's real-time sentence comprehension using language-mediated eye movements

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Verb-mediated referential processing was investigated in an eye movement monitoring task to study the influence of individual differences in the ability of children to process language on-line. The results suggest that less-skilled comprehenders possessed normal sensitivity to linguistic constraints but appeared to show limitations with memory or attention.

United States, Evaluation, Language acquisition, Eye movements, Reading comprehension

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Orthographic learning via self-teaching in children learning to read English: effects of exposure, durability, and context

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Using a set of novel words and self-teaching techniques, development of orthographic learning and visual word recognition in children learning to read English is analyzed.

United Kingdom, Australia, Methods, Analysis, English education, Word recognition, Reading skills, Phonetic spelling

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