Partial Word Knowledge and Vocabulary Growth during Reading Comprehension

Matthew Effects, Reading Comprehension, and Vocabulary 1 Running Head: Matthew Effects, Reading Comprehension, and Vocabulary Matthew Effects in Young Readers: Reading Comprehension and Reading Experience Aid Vocabulary Development

Investigating Engineering Students’ Academic Reading Comprehension: The Contribution of Attitude, Breadth and Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge

The objectives of this study were to investigate Engineering students’ attitudes and problems in academic reading comprehension and to determine the contribution of academic reading attitude, breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge to academic reading comprehension. The participants were 122 undergraduate students of Engineering at Iran University of Science and Technology. The Vocabulary Lev...

Fostering the Development of Vocabulary Knowledge and Reading Comprehension Though Contextually-Based Multiple Meaning Vocabulary Instruction

The primary purpose of this study was to assess the effects of contextuallybased multiple meaning (i.e., words with multiple meanings) vocabulary instruction on the vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension of students. Third and 5th grade students received either contextuallybased multiple meaning vocabulary instruction embedded in the standard language arts instruction offered to all stu...

Word Knowledge in a Theory of Reading Comprehension

ISSN: 1088-8438 (Print) 1532-799X (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/hssr20 Word Knowledge in a Theory of Reading Comprehension Charles Perfetti & Joseph Stafura To cite this article: Charles Perfetti & Joseph Stafura (2014) Word Knowledge in a Theory of Reading Comprehension, Scientific Studies of Reading, 18:1, 22-37, DOI: 10.1080/10888438.2013.827687 To link to this ar...

Reading vocabulary knowledge and deafness.

With respect to reading vocabulary knowledge and deafness, this article addresses two broad questions: (1) Why is vocabulary knowledge related to reading comprehension ability? (2) How is reading vocabulary (i.e., word meanings) acquired? The article argues that the answers to these questions are best addressed by a vocabulary acquisition model labeled the knowledge model. In essence, this mode...