Selma Babayi?it
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
University of the West of England
study examined role oral language skills reading comprehension listening comprehension levels 125 monolingual l1 bilingual l2 englishspeaking learners 1215 months sd 465 england testing conducted english l1 learners outperformed l2 peers measures oral language text comprehension two groups performed comparable levels wordreading accuracy speed oral language indexed vocabulary morphosyntactic skills emerged powerful unique predictor reading listening comprehension levels although tendency oral language strongly related l2 reading comprehension relationship listening comprehension comparable across two language groups finally individual differences oral language skills emerged primary factor explained language group differences text comprehension levels educational implications findings discussed