Andreas Hohmann, Maximilian Siener
Talent Identification in Youth Soccer: Prognosis of U17 Soccer Performance on the Basis of General Athleticism and Talent Promotion Interventions in Second-Grade Children
Frontiers in sports and active living
use easytoread materials people intellectual disabilities become widespread effectiveness scarcely evaluated study framework provided kintschs constructionintegration model 1988 used examine reading comprehension levels different passages spanish text designed following easytoread guidelines ii relationships reading comprehension literal inferential various linguistic features texts sixteen students mild intellectual disability low levels reading skills asked read easytoread texts complete reading comprehension test corpus texts composed set fortyeight pieces news selected wwwnoticiasfaciles spanish digital newspaper publishes daily journalistic texts following international guidelines design easytoread documents ifla tronbacke b 1997 guidelines easytoread materials ifla hague participants correctly answered 80 comprehension questions showing significantly higher scores literal questions inferential questions analyses texts linguistic features revealed number coreferences variable best predicted literal comprehension contrary previous literature seemed indicate relationship two variables inverse case inferential comprehension number sentences significant negative predictor higher sentence density lower ability students find relationships effects rest linguistic variables word frequency word length comprehension null results provide preliminary empirical support use easytoread texts bring question validity popular design guidelines eg augmenting word frequency optimally match texts reading levels students intellectual disability two factors suggested contributing effect sentence density inferential comprehension long texts present higher conceptual density ideas store retrieve integrate increases demand inferential reasoning ii long texts perceived difficult affects reading motivation consequently induces passive reading strategies need research elucidate origin main findings larger heterogeneous sample students intellectual disability highlighted