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

• Published in: Journal 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
• Language: English
• 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

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...