The Role of Inferencing in Struggling Adult Readers' Comprehension of Different Texts: A Mediation Analysis

Autor/inn/en	Tighe, Elizabeth L.; Kaldes, Gal; McNamara, Danielle S.
Titel	The Role of Inferencing in Struggling Adult Readers' Comprehension of Different Texts: A Mediation Analysis
Quelle	102 (2023), Artikel 102268 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
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Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1041-6080
Schlagwörter	Inferences; Reading Comprehension; Vocabulary Development; Morphology (Languages); Metalinguistics; Reading Fluency; Prediction; Decoding (Reading); Adult Literacy; Literacy Education; Reading Difficulties; Reading Materials; Listening Comprehension; Oral Reading; Adult Basic Education; Language Tests; Reading Tests; Factor Structure; Adult Education; Adult Students; Two Year College Students; Community Colleges; Remedial Instruction; Test of Adult Basic Education; Woodcock Reading Mastery Test; Gates MacGinitie Reading Tests + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Inference; Inferenz; Leseverstehen; Wortschatzarbeit; Morphology; Morphologie; Metalanguage; Metasprache; Vorhersage; Dekodierung; Reading difficulty; Leseschwierigkeit; Hörverständnis; Oral work; Reading; Mündliche Übung; Leseprozess; Lesen; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult education; Erwachsenenbildung; Language test; Sprachtest; Lesetest; Faktorenstruktur; Adult basic education; Adult training; Student; Students; Erwachsenenalter; Studentin; Schüler; Schülerin; Community college; Community College; Förderkurs
Abstract	Inferencing skills uniquely contribute to the reading comprehension skills of older grade-school and college students. Evidence also suggests that children's reading component skills, such as decoding and language comprehension, differentially contribute to various reading comprehension assessments. However, additional research is needed to investigate the complex relations of foundational reading skills and inferencing skills to sentence-level and passage-level reading comprehension assessments with struggling adult readers. This study examined the relations between struggling adult readers' (N = 125) text-based (decoding, fluency), language based (morphological awareness, vocabulary, language comprehension), and inferencing skills. The indirect effects of language-based reading component skills to sentence-level and passage-level reading comprehension measures through inferencing were also examined. Vocabulary and morphological awareness indirectly predicted passage-level reading comprehension through inferencing. Word reading fluency and vocabulary knowledge uniquely predicted sentence-level comprehension whereas inferencing skills predicted passage-level comprehension. These results suggest that inferencing is an important contributor to the reading comprehension skills of struggling adult readers. These findings also emphasize a need for multiple measures of comprehension to understand the complexity and underlying component processes involved in struggling adults' reading comprehension skills. Educational implications for adult literacy programs are discussed. (As Provided).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01