Considering the Role of Executive Function in Reading Comprehension: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

ABSTRACT In the present study, we used latent variable structural equation modeling to investigate relations between oral language, decoding, and two components of executive function (cognitive flexibility and working memory) and reading comprehension in a sample of 271 native English-speaking 9.00- to 14.83-year-olds. Results of the mediation analyses indicated that both oral language and decoding fully mediated the relations between working memory and cognitive flexibility and reading comprehension. These findings suggest that executive function is likely associated with reading comprehension through its relation with decoding and oral language and provide additional support for the role of executive function in reading comprehension as a potentially crucial precursor to skilled reading.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Scientific Studies of Reading

• Publication date

  2020-05-03

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science, Education, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1080/10888438.2019.1643868PMID 32982142PMCID PMC7518696
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