Article 34th (Individual Differences In The Vocabulary Skills Of Children with Poor Reading Comprehension)

There is a group of children with age-appropriate decoding abilities, but poor reading comprehension due to weak oral language skills. These children are known as poor comprehenders. Poor comprehenders have been shown to have a variety of oral language weaknesses, but there is a particularly large body of research exploring the relationship between poor oral vocabulary skills and reading comprehension difficulties. Thus, their reading comprehension may be poor because they have difficulty understanding the words that they read.

Furthermore, while many studies show that poor comprehenders have semantic difficulties at the group level, evidence at the individual level demonstrates that some poor comprehenders can perform at an age-appropriate level on tasks of semantics. In fact, the poor comprehender population is heterogeneous and individual poor comprehenders may have very different profiles of oral language skill. As a group, poor comprehenders in children with poor reading comprehension often proves to have difficulty vocabulary. However, vocabulary knowledge is very complex and can affect reading comprehension more than one way. The majority have weak vocabulary skills that take the form of semantic weakness, while the minority has age-appropriate vocabulary skills but poor syntactic or hearing writing skills. They provide the result that the importance of how poor comprehension in reading can be overcome.

Annisa Masnasuri Kesai

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