The relationship between expressive vocabulary knowledge and reading skills for adult struggling readers

This study examined expressive vocabulary and its relationship to reading skills for 232 native English‐speaking adults who read between the third‐ and fifth‐grade levels. The Boston Naming Test (BNT) was used to measure expressive vocabulary. Participants scored lower than the normative sample of a...

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Published inJournal of research in reading Vol. 37; no. S1; pp. S87 - S100
Main Authors Hall, Ryan, Greenberg, Daphne, Laures-Gore, Jacqueline, Pae, Hye K.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.03.2014
Wiley-Blackwell
Subjects
Accuracy
Adults
Cues
English
Expressive Language
Naming
Native Speakers
Reading Ability
Reading Difficulties
Reading Skills
Regression (Statistics)
Stimuli
Vocabulary Skills
oral language skills
vocabulary
adult literacy
reading comprehension
word reading
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Summary:This study examined expressive vocabulary and its relationship to reading skills for 232 native English‐speaking adults who read between the third‐ and fifth‐grade levels. The Boston Naming Test (BNT) was used to measure expressive vocabulary. Participants scored lower than the normative sample of adults on all aspects of the test; they had fewer spontaneously correct answers, and were not helped by stimulus or phonemic cues. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that expressive vocabulary accounted for significant variance in both reading comprehension and exception word reading, but not for general word reading or nonword reading.
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ISSN:0141-0423
1467-9817
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9817.2012.01537.x