Browsing Institutt for pedagogikk by Author "Melby-Lervåg, Monica"
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Dolean, Dacian; Melby-Lervåg, Monica; Tincas, Ioana; Damsa, Crina I.; Lervåg, Arne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Learning to read efficiently is one of the main skills that children has to learn in school and is important in order to functioning well in modern society. Even if children's reading skills seem to be related to their ...
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Hulme, Charles; Snowling, Margaret J.; West, Gillian; Lervåg, Arne; Melby-Lervåg, Monica (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Oral language is crucial for social interaction and for learning in the classroom; it also provides the foundation for reading comprehension. It follows that children with language difficulties are at high risk of educational ...
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Amland, Tonje; Lervåg, Arne; Melby-Lervåg, Monica (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)There is a relationship between reading and math skills, as well as comorbidity between reading and math disorders. A mutual foundation for this comorbidity could be that the quality of phonological representations is ...
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Melby-Lervåg, Monica; Hagen, Åste Mjelve; Lervåg, Arne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)While we know that interventions targeting oral language can be effective, little is known about what drives these effects. In this study, we examine whether gains in transfer measures are mediated through the specific ...
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Lervåg, Arne; Melby-Lervåg, Monica (Chapter / Bokkapittel / SubmittedVersion, 2022)This chapter focuses on the processes involved in the development of children’s decoding skills: the ability to translate printed words into a speech code, typically assessed by the accuracy and speed of reading aloud. If ...
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Hoff, David Armas; Amland, Tonje; Melby-Lervåg, Monica; Lervåg, Arne; Protopapas, Athanassios (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)A number of cognitive factors have been suggested to underlie development in reading and arithmetic skills. Although the two domains are strongly linked, only a few studies have investigated the processes that are shared ...
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Thurmann-Moe, Anne C; Melby-Lervåg, Monica; Lervåg, Arne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2021)This paper describes a randomised control trial (RCT) of a small group intervention targeting articulatory consciousness in first graders with a reading delay (control condition: n = 57, intervention condition: n = 64). ...
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Rogde, Kristin; Hagen, Åste Mjelve; Lervåg, Arne; Melby-Lervåg, Monica (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)Whether the effects of an oral-language intervention is tested with measures of trained vocabulary (treatment-inherent tests) or standardized measures (treatment-independent tests) can have consequences for the mean effect ...
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Dolean, Dacian; Lervåg, Arne; Visu-Petra, Laura; Melby-Lervåg, Monica (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)Abstract The simple view of reading proposes that the development of reading comprehension in early elementary school is best predicted by children’s fluent decoding and oral language skills. Recent studies challenge this ...
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Hagen, Åste Mjelve; Rogde, Kristin; Lervåg, Arne; Melby-Lervåg, Monica; Norbury, Courtenay (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
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Hagen, Åste Mjelve; Knoph, Rebecca; Hjetland, Hanne Næss; Rogde, Kristin; Lawrence, Joshua; Lervåg, Arne; Melby-Lervåg, Monica (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)Listening comprehension involves the ability to understand and extract meaning from spoken sentences, stories, and instruction. This skill is vital for young children and has long-term effects on school achievement, ...
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Lervåg, Arne; Melby-Lervåg, Monica (Chapter / Bokkapittel / SubmittedVersion, 2022)A skilled reader can derive the meaning from a printed text rapidly and effortlessly. Becoming a skilled reader takes time and practice and is one of the main goals of primary school education. Since the previous edition ...
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Bratlie, Siri Steffensen; Brinchmann, Ellen Irén; Melby-Lervåg, Monica; Torkildsen, Janne von Koss (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Knowledge about the smallest meaningful units of language, morphemes, is crucial for vocabulary and reading comprehension. This meta-analysis of 43 studies examined differences in morphological knowledge in the societal ...
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Donolato, Enrica; Toffalini, Enrico; Rogde, Kristin; Nordahl-Hansen, Anders; Lervåg, Arne; Norbury, Courtenay Frazier; Melby-Lervåg, Monica (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Abstract Background Young people who fail to develop language as expected face significant challenges in all aspects of life. Unfortunately, language disorders are common, either as a distinct condition (e.g., Developmental ...
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Diamanti, Vassiliki; Garcia Grande, German; Protopapas, Athanassios; Melby-Lervåg, Monica; Lervåg, Arne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)Purpose This longitudinal study examined the contribution of preschool morphological awareness to word reading skills and reading comprehension, as well as to the developmental change of reading ability beyond other ...
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Nordahl-Hansen, Anders; Donolato, Enrica; Lervåg, Arne; Norbury, Courtenay Frazier; Melby-Lervåg, Monica (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)This protocol presents the plan for a systematic review that will investigate the effect of oral language interventions for children with intellectual disability (ID), language disorder (LD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), ...
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Melby-Lervåg, Monica; Lervåg, Arne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)We report a systematic meta-analytic review of studies comparing reading comprehension and its underlying components (language comprehension, decoding, and phonological awareness) in first- and second-language learners. ...
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Thurmann-Moe, Anne C; Melby-Lervåg, Monica; Lervåg, Arne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)Artikkelen drøfter hvordan single case design (SCD) kan brukes i vurdering av spesialpedagogiske tiltak, og diskuterer spørsmål knyttet til validitet og alternative innfallsvinkler for vurdering av effekt. Det presenteres ...
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Lervåg, Arne; Dolean, Dacian; Tincas, Ioana; Melby-Lervåg, Monica (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Few studies have examined how socioeconomic status (SES) affects two essential parts of human development, namely vocabulary and reading comprehension, in children facing severe poverty. The Roma population is the largest ...
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Thurmann-Moe, Anne C; Melby-Lervåg, Monica; Lervåg, Arne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)Abstract This study evaluates the effect of an intervention whose aim is to make articulatory consciousness a tool in decoding and spelling. The sample comprises 11 students with severe dyslexia (2 SD below the mean ...