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Ryan Hall1, Daphne Greenberg1, Jacqueline Laures Gore1, Hye K Pae2.
Abstract
This study examined expressive vocabulary and its relationship to reading skills for 232 native English-speaking adults who read between the third- and fifth-grade levels. The Boston Naming Test (BNT; Kaplan, Goodglass, & Weintraub, 2001) was used to measure expressive vocabulary. Participants scored lower than the normative sample of adults on all aspects of the test; they had fewer spontaneously correct answers, and were not helped by stimulus or phonemic cues. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that expressive vocabulary accounted for significant variance in both reading comprehension and exception word reading, but not for general word reading or nonword reading.Entities:
Keywords: adult literacy; oral language skills; reading comprehension; vocabulary; word reading
Year: 2014 PMID: 24778459 PMCID: PMC3999701 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9817.2012.01537.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Res Read ISSN: 0141-0423