The Role of Sentence Recall in Reading and Language Skills of Children with Learning Difficulties.

By Tracy Packiam Alloway, Susan E. Gathercole *. 2005

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The present study explores the relationship between sentence recall and reading and language skills in a group of 7–11-year-old children with learning difficulties. While recent studies have found that performance on sentence recall tasks plays a role in learning, it is possible that this contribution is a reflection of shared resources with working memory. In order to investigate whether sentence recall was uniquely associated with reading and language skills, differences associated with IQ and working memory capacity were statistically controlled. A sample of 72 children was tested on measures of verbal complex memory, verbal short-term memory, sentence recall, expressive vocabulary, verbal and performance IQ, reading and language skills. Both sentence recall and verbal complex memory shared unique links with reading skill, and sentence recall was uniquely associated with language skills. This finding indicates that resources in long-term memory also play an important diagnostic role in reading and language abilities. The implications for educational practice are discussed.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Natalie Lavers
2. R. Savage
3. V. Pillay
4. Selma Babayiğit
5. Y. Chiu

In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Natalie Lavers
2. R. Savage
3. V. Pillay
4. Selma Babayiğit
5. Y. Chiu

Citations in the corpus

• The Role of Oral Language Skills in Reading and Listening Comprehension of Text: A Comparison of Monolingual (L1) and Bilingual (L2) Speakers of English Language. (2014, background): “Although sentence imitation tests also involve verbal memory skills, there is evidence of unique links of sentence imitation with both reading comprehension and oral language comprehension levels over and above the verbal short-term and working memory skills (Alloway & Gathercole, 2005).”
• Working Memory and Reading Difficulties: What We Know and What We Don’t Know About the Relationship (2007, methodology): “One recent study by Alloway and Gathercole (2005) used sentence recall as a measure of long-term memory, and contrasted WM and this LTM measure in the prediction of reading and language abilities in reading-disabled children between the ages of 7 and 11 years.”