Mediating Effects of Inferencing on the Relation Between Component Skills and Reading Comprehension of Struggling Adult Readers: Variations by Assessment Type

EasyChair Preprint 3914

Abstract

This study examined whether inferencing mediated the relations between language-based component skills and reading comprehension (sentence and passage-level comprehension) of struggling adult readers, after controlling for other lower-level skills. Word reading fluency and vocabulary knowledge were predictive of sentence-level comprehension. Inferencing mediated the relation between vocabulary and passage-level comprehension. Component skills varied as a function of comprehension measure administered. These findings suggest a need to administer multiple measures of comprehension to understand the underlying component processes involved in struggling adults’ reading comprehension skills.

Keyphrases: Inferencing, reading comprehension, struggling adult readers

@booklet{EasyChair:3914,
  author    = {Elizabeth Tighe and Amy Johnson and Gal Kaldes and Danielle S. McNamara},
  title     = {Mediating Effects of Inferencing on the Relation Between Component Skills and Reading Comprehension of Struggling Adult Readers: Variations by Assessment Type},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 3914},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2020}}