Reading comprehension and strategy use: Comparing bilingual children to their monolingual peers and to bilingual adults.

ABSTRACT: The current study investigated the predictive ability of language knowledge and reported strategy use on reading comprehension performance in English-speaking monolingual and bilingual students. One hundred fifty-five children in grade 4 through 6 (93 bilinguals and 62 monolinguals) were assessed on receptive vocabulary, word reading fluency, reading comprehension, and reading strategy use in English. An additional 38 adult bilinguals (i.e., English Language Learners) were assessed on the same measures. Although, the bilingual adult group and bilingual children had significantly lower English vocabulary knowledge relative to the monolingual children, the bilingual adults exhibited reading comprehension performance that was on par with the monolingual children; both groups outperformed the

SUBMITTER: Friesen DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9730700 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature