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Professor Kate Cain

Professor, Research Group Lead: Language and Literacy

  1. Published

    Profiles of children with specific reading comprehension difficulties.

    Cain, K. & Oakhill, J., 12/2006, In: British Journal of Educational Psychology. 76, 4, p. 683-696 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  2. Published

    Matthew effects in young readers: reading comprehension and reading experience aid vocabulary development

    Cain, K. & Oakhill, J., 09/2011, In: Journal of Learning Disabilities. 44, 5, p. 431-443 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  3. Published

    The influence of connectives on young readers' processing and comprehension of text.

    Cain, K. & Nash, H. M., 05/2011, In: Journal of Educational Psychology. 103, 2, p. 429-441 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  4. Published

    Reading development and difficulties: an introduction.

    Cain, K., 2010, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. 260 p. (BPS Textbooks in Psychology)

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  5. Published

    Reading and listening comprehension and their relation to inattention and hyperactivity

    Cain, K. & Bignell, S., 2014, In: British Journal of Educational Psychology. 84, 1, p. 108-124 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Reading comprehension difficulties in struggling readers

    Cain, K., 2013, Unravelling reading comprehension: behavioral, neurobiological, and genetic components. Miller, B., Cutting, L. E. & McCardle, P. (eds.). Baltimore, Md.: Paul Brookes Publishing, p. 54-65 12 p. (The Extraordinary Brain Series: The Dyslexia Foundation).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  7. Published

    Reading for meaning: the skills that drive comprehension development

    Cain, K., 2010, Interdisciplinary perspectives on learning to read: culture, cognition and pedagogy. Hall, K., Goswami, U., Harrison, C., Ellis, S. & Soler, J. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 74-86 13 p. (Routledge Psychology in Education).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  8. Published

    Reading comprehension development from seven to fourteen years: implication for assessment

    Cain, K. & Oakhill, J., 2012, Measuring up: advances in how we assess reading ability. Sabatini, J. P., Albro, E. & O'Reilly, T. (eds.). Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Education

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  9. Published

    Literacy development: the interdependent roles of oral language and reading comprehension

    Cain, K., 7/05/2015, Routledge handbook of communication disorders. Bahr, R. H. & Silliman, E. R. (eds.). London: Routledge

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  10. Published

    Reading comprehension and vocabulary: is vocabulary more important for some aspects of comprehension?

    Cain, K. & Oakhill, J., 12/2014, In: L'année Psychologique. 114, 4, p. 647-662 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  11. Published

    Reading comprehension development from 8 to 14 years the contribution of component skills and processes

    Cain, K. & Oakhill, J., 2009, Beyond decoding: the behavioral and biological foundations of reading comprehension. Wagner, R. K., Schatschneider, C. & Phythian-Sence, C. (eds.). New York: The Guildford Press

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  12. Published

    The nature of the relationship between comprehension skill and the ability to tell a story

    Cain, K. & Oakhill, J., 06/1996, In: British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 14, 2, p. 187-201 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  13. Published

    Inference making ability and its relation to comprehension failure

    Cain, K. & Oakhill, J., 12/1999, In: Reading and Writing. 11, 5-6, p. 489-503 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  14. Published

    Ways of reading: how knowledge and use of strategies are related to reading comprehension

    Cain, K., 06/1999, In: British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 17, 2, p. 293-309 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  15. Published

    Children's reading comprehension difficulties: a consideration of the precursors and consequences

    Cain, K., 2009, Contemporary perspectives on reading and spelling . Wood, C. & Connelly, V. (eds.). Oxford: Routledge, p. 59-75 17 p. (New Perspectives on Learning and Instruction).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  16. Published

    Reading comprehension difficulties: correlates, causes, and consequence

    Cain, K. & Oakhill, J., 2007, Children's comprehension roblems in oral and written text: a cognitive perspective . Cain, K. & Oakhill, J. (eds.). New York: Guilford Press, p. 41-75 35 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  17. Published

    The ability to learn new word meanings from context by school-age children with and without language comprehension difficulties

    Cain, K., Oakhill, J. V. & Elbro, C., 08/2003, In: Journal of Child Language. 30, 3, p. 681-694 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  18. Published

    Phonological skills and comprehension failure: a test of the phonological processing deficit hypothesis

    Cain, K., Oakhill, J. & Bryant, P. E., 09/2000, In: Reading and Writing. 13, 1-2, p. 31-56 26 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  19. Published

    Reading processes in children

    Cain, K., 2006, Encyclopedia of language and linguistics. Brown, K. (ed.). 2nd ed. ed. Oxford: Elsevier, Vol. 10. p. 379-386 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNEntry for encyclopedia/dictionary

  20. Published

    Reading comprehension difficulties

    Cain, K., 2004, Handbook of children’s literacy . Nunes, T. & Bryant, P. (eds.). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 313-338 26 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  21. Published

    Comprehension skill and inference making ability: issues of causality

    Cain, K. & Oakhill, J., 1998, Reading and spelling: development and disorders. Hulme, C. & Joshi, R. M. (eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, p. 329-342 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  22. Published

    Story knowledge and comprehension skill

    Cain, K., 1996, Reading comprehension difficulties: processes and remediation . Cornoldi, C. & Oakhill, J. (eds.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaun Associates, p. 167-192 26 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  23. Published

    The dimensionality of language ability in young children

    Language and Reading Research Consortium, 11/2015, In: Child Development. 86, 6, p. 1948-1965 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  24. Published

    Oral language and listening comprehension: same or different constructs?

    Language and Reading Research Consortium, 1/05/2017, In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 60, 5, p. 1273-1284 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  25. Published

    Theories of reading development

    Cain, K. (Editor), Compton, D. L. (Editor) & Parrila, R. K. (Editor), 2017, John Benjamins Publishers. 534 p. (Studies in Written Language and Literacy; vol. 15)

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  26. Published

    The Simple View of Reading across development: the prediction of grade 3 reading comprehension by prekindergarten skills

    Chiu, Y.-D. & Language and Reading Research Consortium, 09/2018, In: Remedial and Special Education. 39, 5, p. 289-303 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  27. Published

    Modeling the nature of grammar and vocabulary trajectories from pre-kindergarten to third grade

    Language and Reading Research Consortium, Jiang, H., Logan, J. & Jia, R., 17/04/2018, In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 61, p. 910-923 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  28. Published

    The dimensionality of oral language in kindergarten Spanish-English dual-language learners

    Language and Reading Research Consortium, Yeomans-Maldonado, G., Bengochea, A. & Mesa, C., 11/2018, In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 61, p. 2779-2795 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  29. Published

    Vocabulary development and reading comprehension: a reciprocal relationship

    Cain, K. & Oakhill, J. V., 18/04/2018, Oxford : Oxford University Press.

    Research output: Other contribution

  30. Published

    Introduction to the Special Issue: Integration: The Keystone of Comprehension

    Cain, K. & Oakhill, J., 3/02/2021, In: Discourse Processes. 58, 1

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineEditorial

  31. Forthcoming

    The influence of reader and text characteristics on sixth graders’ inference making

    Cain, K., Currie, N., Francey, G., Davies, R., Gray, S., Bridges, M., Restrepo, M. A., Thompson, M. & Ciraolo, M. F., 8/10/2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Research in Reading.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  32. Published

    The effect of prompts on the shared reading interactions of parents and children with Down syndrome

    Burgoyne, K. & Cain, K., 31/08/2022, In: International Journal of Disability, Development and Education. 69, 4, p. 1327-1341 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  33. Published

    Young children’s comprehension of temporal relations in complex sentences: the influence of memory on performance

    Blything, L., Davies, R. & Cain, K., 11/2015, In: Child Development. 86, 6, p. 1922-1934 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  34. Published

    Children's processing and comprehension of complex sentences containing temporal connectives: the influence of memory on the time course of accurate responses

    Blything, L. P. & Cain, K. E., 1/10/2016, In: Developmental Psychology. 52, 10, p. 1517-1529 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  35. Published

    The role of memory and language ability in children’s production of two-clause sentences containing before and after

    Blything, L. & Cain, K., 1/06/2019, In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 182, p. 61-85 25 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  36. Published

    Question Asking During Reading Comprehension Instruction: A Corpus Study of How Question Type Influences the Linguistic Complexity of Primary School Students’ Responses

    Blything, L. P., Hardie, A. & Cain, K., 1/07/2020, In: Reading Research Quarterly. 55, 3, p. 443-472 30 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  37. Published

    Pragmatic aspects of communication and language comprehension in groups of children differentiated by teacher ratings of inattention and hyperactivity.

    Bignell, S. & Cain, K., 11/2007, In: British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 25, 4, p. 499-512 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  38. Published

    Predicting second grade listening comprehension using prekindergarten measures

    Alonzo, C., Yeomans-Maldonado, G., Murphy, K., Bevens, B. & Language and Reading Research Consortium, 1/10/2016, In: Topics in Language Disorders. 36, 4, p. 312-333 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  39. Published

    Do iPads promote symbolic understanding and word learning in children with autism?

    Allen, M., Hartley, C. & Cain, K., 12/02/2015, In: Frontiers in Educational Psychology. 6, 9 p., 138.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  40. Published

    iPads and the use of “Apps” by children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: do they promote learning?

    Allen, M. L., Hartley, C. K. & Cain, K. E., 30/08/2016, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 7, 7 p., 1305.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  41. Published

    Improving language-focused comprehension instruction in primary-grade classrooms: impacts of the Let’s Know! experimental curriculum

    Language and Reading Research Consortium, Pratt, A. & Logan, J., 09/2014, In: Educational Psychology Review. 26, 3, p. 357-377 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  42. Published

    Use of the curriculum research framework (CRF) for developing a reading-comprehension curricular supplement for the primary grades

    Language and Reading Research Consortium, 03/2016, In: Elementary School Journal. 116, 3, p. 459-486 28 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  43. Published

    The dimensionality of Spanish in young Spanish-English dual language learners

    Language and Reading Research Consortium, 06/2015, In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 58, p. 754-766 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  44. Published

    Learning to read: should we keep things simple?

    Language and Reading Research Consortium, 04/2015, In: Reading Research Quarterly. 50, 2, p. 151-169 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  45. Published

    A pilot study of the impact of double-dose robust vocabulary instruction on children’s vocabulary growth

    Language and Reading Research Consortium, Arthur, A. & Davis, D., 2016, In: Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness. 9, 2, p. 173-200 28 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  46. Published

    Ten steps to conducting a large, multi-site, longitudinal investigation of language and reading in young children

    Language and Reading Research Consortium, Farquharson, K. & Murphy, K. A., 30/03/2016, In: Frontiers in Developmental Psychology. 7, p. 1-16 16 p., 419.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  47. Published

    Pressure points in reading comprehension: a quantile multiple regression analysis

    Language and Reading Research Consortium, 05/2017, In: Journal of Educational Psychology. 109, 4, p. 451-464 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  48. Published

    Improving the language skills of Pre-Kindergarten students: Preliminary impacts of the Let’s Know! experimental curriculum.

    Language and Reading Research Consortium (LARRC), Johanson, M. & Arthur, A., 06/2016, In: Child and Youth Care Forum. 45, 3, p. 367–392 26 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  49. Published

    Development of comprehension monitoring in beginner readers

    Language and Reading Research Consortium & Yeomans-Maldonado, G., 11/2017, In: Reading and Writing. 30, 9, p. 2039-2067 29 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  50. Published

    The dimensionality of inference making: Are local and global inferences distinguishable?

    Language and Reading Research Consortium (LARRC) & Muijselaar, M. M. L., 02/2018, In: Scientific Studies of Reading. 22, 2, p. 117-136 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  51. Published

    Are working memory and behavioral attention equally important for both reading and listening comprehension? A developmental comparison

    Language and Reading Research Consortium, Jiang, H. & Farquharson, K., 09/2018, In: Reading and Writing. 31, 7, p. 1449-1477 29 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  52. Published

    Inference making in young children: The concurrent and longitudinal contributions of verbal working memory and vocabulary

    Language and Reading Research Consortium (LARRC), Currie, N. K. & Muijselaar, M. M. L., 30/11/2019, In: Journal of Educational Psychology. 111, 8, p. 1416-1431 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  53. Published

    The Role of Prekindergarten Spanish in Predicting First-Grade English Word Reading Among Dual-Language Learners

    Language and Reading Research Consortium (LARRC), Mesa, C. & Yeomans-Maldonado, G., 1/06/2019, In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 62, 6, p. 1755-1774 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  54. Published

    Improving reading comprehension in the primary grades: Mediated effects of a language-focused classroom intervention

    Language and Reading Research Consortium, Jiang, H. & Logan, J., 15/08/2019, In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 62, 8, p. 2812-2828 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  55. Published

    English and Spanish predictors of grade 3 reading comprehension in bilingual children

    Language and Reading Research Consortium (LARRC), Mesa, C. & Yeomans-Maldonado, G., 17/03/2021, In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 64, 3, p. 889-908 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  56. Published

    Impacts of the Let’s Know! Curriculum on the Language and Comprehension-Related Skills of Prekindergarten and Kindergarten Children

    Language and Reading Research Consortium, Lo, M.-T. & Xu, M., 31/08/2022, In: Journal of Educational Psychology. 114, 6, p. 1205–1224 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

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