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CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 20, Issue 3, Pages 139-142Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0963721411408673
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reading; decoding; comprehension; oral language; reading comprehension impairment; intervention
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The goal of reading is to extract meaning from text, and this depends upon both decoding and language-comprehension skills. Recently there has been growing interest in children who can read accurately but have poor comprehension. Reading-comprehension impairment is relatively common, although it often goes unrecognized in the classroom. Children with reading-comprehension impairment have a range of oral-language weaknesses, which impede their comprehension of both written and spoken language. Recent studies indicate that these underlying oral-language difficulties can be ameliorated by school-based interventions, which can, in turn, improve both reading-and listening-comprehension skills. Early interventions to reduce such language-learning weaknesses potentially have very important educational, social, and economic implications.
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