How logical reasoning mediates the relation between lexical quality and reading comprehension

Segers, Eliane

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“…In general, the measures of intelligence and reading comprehension were significantly related to most of the reasoning conditions, without showing differential association with the imaginable and neutral conditions, which were used to compute the visual impedance effect. A relation between reasoning and reading (accuracy, time, and, especially, comprehension) has been validated through this study's findings, in agreement with previous studies (Ahmed et al, 2016;Cromley & Azevedo, 2007;Graesser, Singer, & Trabasso, 1994;Kendeou et al, 2014;Segers & Verhoeven, 2016;Tzeng, 2010). Inference making, which is a basic process in reasoning, is also a significant element of reading comprehension (Daugaard et al, 2017).…”

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“…A relation between reasoning and reading (accuracy, time, and, especially, comprehension) has been validated through this study's findings, in agreement with previous studies (Ahmed et al, 2016;Cromley & Azevedo, 2007;Graesser, Singer, & Trabasso, 1994;Kendeou et al, 2014;Segers & Verhoeven, 2016;Tzeng, 2010). In general, the measures of intelligence and reading comprehension were significantly related to most of the reasoning conditions, without showing differential association with the imaginable and neutral conditions, which were used to compute the visual impedance effect.…”

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“…In fact, the literacy skill most related with reasoning may be reading comprehension. More specifically, it has been found that children with RD do not estimate their perception of the text as precisely as children with typical development (Oakhill, Hartt, & Samols, 2005), and they show a lower level of skills in inference making (Segers & Verhoeven, 2016). Moreover, some studies have shown that together with their reading problems, people with reading comprehension difficulties manifest deficiencies when performing tests in inference-making and comprehension monitoring (Cain & Oakhill, 2006).…”

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“…Moreover, some studies have shown that together with their reading problems, people with reading comprehension difficulties manifest deficiencies when performing tests in inference-making and comprehension monitoring (Cain & Oakhill, 2006). More specifically, it has been found that children with RD do not estimate their perception of the text as precisely as children with typical development (Oakhill, Hartt, & Samols, 2005), and they show a lower level of skills in inference making (Segers & Verhoeven, 2016).…”

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Testing the visual impedance effect in children with and without reading difficulties using a new visual reasoning task

2019

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This study examined reasoning skills in children, specifically transitive reasoning and the visual impedance effect, with a new visual/pictorial task. The visual impedance effect is the effect produced by the possible interference in the reasoning process of irrelevant details elicited from the premises of a reasoning task. The new task had no reading requirements, which made it suitable for testing reasoning in primary school children, especially children with reading difficulties (RD), such as dyslexia. The study aimed also to validate the possible use of the task for studying reasoning and detecting the visual impedance effect without the interference of reading skills and to investigate the association between transitive reasoning and reading abilities. A pilot study (N = 10) was used to test the suitability of the new task for primary school children. Afterwards, the task was tested on a larger sample of children of third to sixth Grade, with and without RD (N = 84). Results showed that the new task is able to detect the main reasoning effects as well as the visual impedance effect. The findings are discussed, with the new task considered appropriate for studying reasoning skills in child populations both with and without RD.

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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Testing the visual impedance effect in children with and without reading difficulties using a new visual reasoning task

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“…However, it was significant on grade level 9-12 when the model was replicated with latent variables and also on grade level 8 when a general factor was taken into account. A recent study by Segers and Verhoeven (2016) also supports an indirect effect of vocabulary on reading comprehension through inference making, finding that measures of syllogistic reasoning mediated the effect of vocabulary on children's text comprehension (grade 4). In addition, support comes from two studies with adults: a replication of the DIME model with college students (Cromley, Snyder-Hogan, & Luciw-Dubas, 2010) and a think-aloud study with university students (Cromley & Wills, 2016).…”

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From words to text: inference making mediates the role of vocabulary in children’s reading comprehension

2017

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The members of LaCPI also included postdoc Rikke Vang Christensen and eighteen students. We Running head: INFERENCES AND VOCABULARY IN READING COMPREHENSION 2 would like to thank all the members of LaCPI as well as the children, parents, and schools who participated in the study. AbstractWe examined the relationship between inference making, vocabulary knowledge, and verbal working memory on children's reading comprehension in 62 6 th graders (aged 12). The effect of vocabulary knowledge on reading comprehension was predicted to be partly mediated by inference making for two reasons: Inference making often taps the semantic relations among words, and the precise word meanings in texts are selected by readers on the basis of context. All independent variables were significantly and moderately correlated with reading comprehension. In support of our prediction, the link between vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension was significantly mediated by inference making even when verbal working memory was controlled. An alternative mediation hypothesis (vocabulary as a mediator of the effect of inference making on comprehension) was not supported by the data. The study replicates and extends the findings of earlier work (Cromley &

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Adult Vocabulary Modulates Speed of Word Integration Into Preceding Text Across Sentence Boundaries: Evidence From Self‐Paced Reading

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Kronmüller

2019

Reading Research Quarterly

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An important component of reading comprehension is the reader's capacity to make inferences that can maintain the coherence between propositions within the text. However, the cognitive and linguistic skills that underlie online inference making remain elusive. The authors aimed to clarify the effects of vocabulary and text comprehension on word‐to‐text integration during reading. In a self‐paced reading study, the authors measured participants’ integration of words across sentence boundaries by comparing reading times at a critical word and the subsequent region, when preceded by the same critical word (repetition condition), by a lexically associated word (association condition), or by a word with no direct lexical link (inference condition). Furthermore, the authors assessed vocabulary knowledge, text comprehension, working memory, decoding, and fluid intelligence in the sample. Results showed that richer vocabulary was associated with immediate integration, as evidenced by reading time differences between the critical word and the subsequent word in the inference condition. Other individual differences did not predict self‐paced reading times. Findings suggest that lexical knowledge plays a stronger role relative to other individual skills in online inference making and contributes to refining understanding of the mechanisms that underlie efficient reading.

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How logical reasoning mediates the relation between lexical quality and reading comprehension

Cited by 26 publications

References 30 publications

Testing the visual impedance effect in children with and without reading difficulties using a new visual reasoning task

Testing the visual impedance effect in children with and without reading difficulties using a new visual reasoning task

From words to text: inference making mediates the role of vocabulary in children’s reading comprehension

Adult Vocabulary Modulates Speed of Word Integration Into Preceding Text Across Sentence Boundaries: Evidence From Self‐Paced Reading

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