Summary of Reading Investigations July 1, 1939 to June 30, 1940

Gray, William S.

doi:10.1080/00220671.1941.10881015

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“…Finally, we examined one additional measure of educationally based language outcomes in this study: second-language vocabulary learning 1 . While there is a long history of research on processes underlying reading comprehension dating back to the 1930s (see Gray, 1941 for a summary of early work on reading comprehension), the same cannot be said for vocabulary learning in adults. Of particular interest to us was foreign-language vocabulary learning.…”

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The role of maintenance and disengagement in predicting reading comprehension and vocabulary learning.

Martin

Shipstead

Harrison

et al. 2020

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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This study uses a novel framework based on work by Shipstead, Harrison, and Engle (2016) that includes measures of both working memory capacity and fluid intelligence in an attempt to better understand the processes that influence successful reading comprehension at the latent level. Further, we extend this framework to a second educationally relevant ability: second-language vocabulary learning. A large sample of young adults received a battery of working memory, fluid intelligence, language comprehension, and memory updating tasks. The results indicate that individual differences in reading comprehension and vocabulary learning benefit from the ability to maintain active information, as well as to disengage from no longer relevant information. Subsequently, we provide an interpretation of our results based on the maintenance and disengagement framework proposed by Shipstead et al. (2016).

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Section: Maintenance and Disengagement In Other Complex Verbal Abilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%