OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Reading and Writing is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The impact of self-assessment, planning and goal setting, and reflection before and after revision on student self-efficacy and writing performance	29
Effects of reading interventions implemented for upper elementary struggling readers: A look at recent research	27
Handwriting fluency and the quality of primary grade students’ writing	26
Foreign language reading anxiety and its correlates: a meta-analysis	25
Reading achievement declines during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from 5 million U.S. students in grades 3–8	25
Reading in print versus digital media uses different cognitive strategies: evidence from eye movements during science-text reading	23
Predictors and outcomes of behavioral engagement in the context of text comprehension: when quantity means quality	19
Discovery of the key contextual factors relevant to the reading performance of elementary school students from 61 countries/regions: insight from a machine learning-based approach	18
Research and teaching writing	18
Discourse synthesis: Textual transformations in writing from sources	17
Psychometric properties of an English Writing Self-Efficacy scale: aspects of construct validity	17
Reading and math skills development among Finnish primary school children before and after COVID-19 school closure	17
Reasoning beyond history: examining students’ strategy use when completing a multiple text task addressing a controversial topic in education	16
Language skills, and not executive functions, predict the development of reading comprehension of early readers: evidence from an orthographically transparent language	16
E-book reading in kindergarten and story comprehension support	16
Motivational predictors of reading comprehension in middle school: Role of self-efficacy and growth mindsets	15
Prediction of kindergarten and first-grade reading skills: unique contributions of preschool writing and early-literacy skills	14
Mapping multiple documents: From constructing multiple document models to argumentative writing	14
The effects of distant professional development model on second grade teachers’ instruction and students’ quality of procedural papers	13
Collaborative writing as a bridge from peer discourse to individual argumentative writing	13
The mirror reflects more for genial than for casual: right-asymmetry bias on the visual word recognition of words containing non-reversal letters	12
Effectiveness of an SRSD writing intervention for low- and high-SES children	12
The mediating effects of reading amount and strategy use in the relationship between intrinsic reading motivation and comprehension: differences between Grade 4 and Grade 6 students	12
Scoring rubric reliability and internal validity in rater-mediated EFL writing assessment: Insights from many-facet Rasch measurement	11
Writing expository essays from social studies texts: a self-regulated strategy development study	11

Rapid automatized naming and spelling performance in alphabetic languages: a meta-analysis	10
Defining the relationship between fine motor visual-spatial integration and reading and spelling	10
The role of transcription and executive functions in writing: a longitudinal study in the transition from primary to intermediate Grades	10
Handwriting versus keyboarding: Does writing modality affect quality of narratives written by beginning writers?	10
The COVID-19 impact on reading achievement growth of Grade 3–5 students in a U.S. urban school district: variation across student characteristics and instructional modalities	10
Latent profiles of attitudes toward print and digital reading among adolescents	10
Concurrent and longitudinal predictors of beginning writing in Chinese: the unique role of copying skills	10
Reading comprehension on word- and sentence-level can be predicted by orthographic knowledge for German children with poor reading proficiency	10
The impact of academic buoyancy and emotions on university students’ self-regulated learning strategies in L2 writing classrooms	9
Relationships between writing motives, writing self-efficacy and time on writing among Chinese students: path models and cluster analyses	9
Writing intervention with elementary students struggling with writing: examining approach profiles to the teacher feedback on writing quality and motivational variables	9
Examining teachers’ early writing knowledge and practices	9
Is typewriting more resources-demanding than handwriting in undergraduate students?	9
Characteristics of the preschool home literacy environment which predict writing skills at school	9
Supporting struggling readers at secondary school: an intervention of reading strategy instruction	9
The contributions of separate pinyin skills and oral vocabulary to Chinese word reading of U.S. Mandarin immersion third graders	9
Modeling chinese high school EFL writers’ language mindsets, goal orientations, and feedback-seeking behavior: the interaction effect between language mindsets and writing competence	9
Dynamic assessment as a predictor of reading development: a systematic review	9
What do teachers know about dyslexia? It’s complicated!	9
Direct and indirect effects of independent language skills on the integrated writing performance of Chinese-speaking students with low proficiency	9
Written text production in Greek-speaking children with Developmental Language Disorder and typically developing peers, in relation to their oral language, cognitive, visual-motor coordination, and ha	9
The role of morphological awareness in the development of reading comprehension in Hebrew-speaking second-graders	9
Impacts of the COVID-19 disruption on the language and literacy development of monolingual and heritage bilingual children in the United States	9
Teaching writing in primary education (grades 1–6) in Australia: a national survey	9
The varied influence of the home literacy environment on Chinese preschoolers’ word reading skills	9
Mathematics-writing profiles for students with mathematics difficulty	8
Evaluating effects of different forms of revision instruction in upper-primary students	8
Effects of negative emotional valence on readers’ text processing and memory for text: an eye-tracking study	8
Examining the effects of integrated instruction on Chinese sixth-graders’ reading comprehension, motivation, and strategy use in reading fiction books	8
The relationship between autism traits and listening comprehension among Chinese preschool children with autism spectrum disorder	8
Word-to-text integration in English as a second language reading comprehension	8
Children’s surface, textbase, and situation model representations of written and illustrated written narrative text	8
A better start literacy approach: effectiveness of Tier 1 and Tier 2 support within a response to teaching framework	8
Source inclusion in synthesis writing: an NLP approach to understanding argumentation, sourcing, and essay quality	7
Exploring kindergarten teachers’ classroom practices and beliefs in writing	7
The relationships between paired associate learning and Chinese word writing in kindergarten children	7
Modelling typing disfluencies as finite mixture process	7
A longitudinal study of multi-word constructions in L2 academic writing: the effects of frequency and dispersion	7
Early literacy in Arabic: the role of SES, home literacy environment, mothers’ early literacy beliefs and estimation of their children’s literacy skills	7
Strategies that promote historical reasoning and contextualization: a pilot intervention with urban high school students	7
Is it the size, the movement, or both? Investigating effects of screen size and text movement on processing, understanding, and motivation when students read informational text	7
Examining undergraduates’ text-based evidence identification, evaluation, and use	7
What’s in a word? Effects of morphologically rich vocabulary instruction on writing outcomes among elementary students	7
Tender Shoots: a parent book-reading and reminiscing program to enhance children’s oral narrative skills	7
Effects of metalinguistic awareness on Chinese as a second language spelling through the mediation of reading and copying	7
Basic reading and reading-related language skills in adults with deficient reading comprehension who read a transparent orthography	7
Levels of skills and predictive patterns of reading comprehension in bilingual children with an early age of acquisition	7
Pausing and breathing while reading aloud: development from 2nd to 7th grade in French speaking children	6
How syntactic awareness might influence reading comprehension in English–French bilingual children	6
The relationship between second language college students’ perceptions of online feedback on draft-writing and academic procrastination	6

The longitudinal relationship between early inhibitory control skills and emergent literacy in preschool children	6
Differential effects and success stories of distance education in Covid-19 lockdowns on the development of reading comprehension in primary schools	6
Typical 6-year-old children’s confusion between “b” and “d” in reading cannot be assimilated to reversal	6
Effect of alternating-color words on oral reading in grades 2–5 Chinese children: evidence from eye movements	6
Writing a synthesis versus reading: strategies involved and impact on comprehension	6
Validity of automated text evaluation tools for written-expression curriculum-based measurement: a comparison study	6
Semantic and syntactic constraints in resolving homography: a developmental study in Hebrew	6
Comprehension and critique: an examination of students’ evaluations of information in texts	6
Chinese secondary school students’ reading engagement profiles: associations with reading comprehension	6
Multilingual writing development: Relationships between writing proficiencies in German, heritage language and English	6
Orthographic learning through self-teaching among learners of English as a second language	6
Examining the impacts of the structures writing intervention for teaching fourth-grade students to write informational text	6
Clozing in on reading comprehension: a deep cloze test of global inference making	6
What textbooks offer and what teachers teach: an analysis of the Dutch reading comprehension curriculum	6
Learning science through argumentative synthesis writing and deliberative dialogues: a comprehensive and effective methodology in secondary education	6
Relation between digital tool practices in the language arts classroom and reading comprehension scores	6
The effectiveness of self-regulated strategy development on improving English writing: Evidence from the last decade	6
How does first language achievement impact second language reading anxiety? Exploration of mediator variables	6
Examining the contribution of RAN components to reading fluency, reading comprehension, and spelling in German	5
Write this way: examining teachers’ supportive strategies to facilitate children’s early writing in preschool	5
Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on reading performance of second grade children in Germany	5
Unpacking an online peer-mediated and self-reflective revision process in second-language persuasive writing	5
Verbal fluency as a predictor of autism spectrum disorder diagnosis and co-occurring attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms	5
Dual-stage and dual-deficit? Word recognition processes during text reading across the reading fluency continuum	5
Relationships between self-regulation, social skills and writing achievement in digital schools	5
Associations between morphological awareness and literacy skills in German primary school children: the roles of grade level, phonological processing and vocabulary	5
Do EFL learners use different grammatical complexity features in writing across registers?	5
Effects of context and discrepancy when reading multiple documents	5
Toward a better understanding of skill integration in integrated writing: a structural equation modeling study of EFL secondary learners’ test performance	5
Response to Intervention in first-grade writing instruction: a large-scale feasibility study	5
A sentence-combining intervention for struggling writers: response to intervention	5
What’s your pleasure? exploring the predictors of leisure reading for fiction and nonfiction	5
The direct and indirect effects of language and cognitive skills on Chinese reading comprehension	5
Same or different: Chinese character reading and word reading of young readers with development	5
Precursors of reading text comprehension from paper and screen in first graders: a longitudinal study	5
The involvement of inhibition in word and sentence reading	5
Linguistic constraints on the cross-linguistic variations in L2 word recognition	5
Vocabulary limitations undermine bilingual children’s reading comprehension despite bilingual cognitive strengths	5
Collaborative writing of argumentative syntheses by low-performing undergraduate writers: explicit instruction and practice	5
Exploring the writing-reading connection among Arabic-speaking kindergarten children: the role of fine motor skills and orthographic knowledge	5
Choosing the right question: the effect of different question types on multiple text integration	5
Pathways from morphological awareness to reading fluency: the mediating role of phonological awareness and vocabulary	5
Online interventions to help college students to improve the degree of integration of their argumentative synthesis	5
Belief bias when adolescents read to comprehend multiple conflicting texts	5
Preschool morphological awareness contributes to word reading at the very earliest stages of learning to read in a transparent orthography	5
Introduction to the special issue on synthesis tasks: where reading and writing meet	5
How do executive functions explain early Chinese reading and writing?	5
Parent–child interactions longitudinally mediate the association between shared literacy activities and emergent literacy and oral language skills	5
Writing-to-Learn in Elementary Classrooms: A National Survey of U.S. Teachers	5
The effect of communicative purpose and reading medium on pauses during different phases of the textualization process	5
Children with handwriting difficulties: developing orthographic knowledge of alphabet-letters to improve capacity to write alphabet symbols	5
Use of morphological and contextual cues in children’s lexical inferencing in L1 and L2	5