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Professor Kate Cain

Professor, Research Group Lead: Language and Literacy

  1. 2007
  2. 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

  3. 2006
  4. Published

    Assessment matters: issues in the measurement of reading comprehension.

    Cain, K. & Oakhill, J., 12/2006, In: British Journal of Educational Psychology. 76, 4, p. 697-708 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  5. 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

  6. Published

    Individual differences in children's memory and reading comprehension : an investigation of semantic and inhibitory deficits.

    Cain, K., 07/2006, In: Memory. 14, 5, p. 553 -569

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Children's reading comprehension : the role of working memory in normal and impaired development.

    Cain, K., 2006, Working memory and education.. Pickering, S. J. (ed.). Amsterdam: Academic Press, p. 61-91 31 p. (Educational psychology series).

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

  8. 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

  9. 2005
  10. Published

    Age- and ability-related differences in young readers’ use of conjunctions.

    Cain, K., Patson, N. & Andrews, L., 11/2005, In: Journal of Child Language. 32, 4, p. 877-892 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  11. Published

    The relation between children's reading comprehension level and their comprehension of idioms.

    Cain, K. E., Lemmon, K. & Oakhill, J., 1/01/2005, In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 90, p. 65-87 23 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  12. 2004
  13. Published

    Individual differences in the inference of word meanings from context: the influence of reading comprehension, vocabulary knowledge, and memory capacity.

    Cain, K., Lemmon, K. & Oakhill, J., 12/2004, In: Journal of Educational Psychology. 96, 4, p. 671-681 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  14. Published

    Children's reading comprehension ability: Concurrent prediction by working memory, verbal ability, and component skills.

    Cain, K. E., Bryant, P. E. & Oakhill, J., 03/2004, In: Journal of Educational Psychology. 96, 1, p. 31-42 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  15. 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

  16. Published

    The development of comprehension skills

    Oakhill, J. V. & Cain, K., 2004, Handbook of children's literacy. Nunes, T. & Bryant, P. (eds.). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 155 180 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)

  17. 2003
  18. Published

    Text comprehension and its relation to coherence and cohesion in children’s fictional narratives.

    Cain, K., 09/2003, In: British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 21, 3, p. 335-351 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  19. 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

  20. Published

    The dissociation of word reading and text comprehension: Evidence from component skills.

    Oakhill, J. V., Cain, K. & Bryant, P. E., 2003, In: Language and Cognitive Processes. 18, 4, p. 443-468 26 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  21. 2001
  22. Published

    Comprehension skill, inference making ability and their relation to knowledge.

    Cain, K., Barnes, M. A., Bryant, P. E. & Oakhill, J. V., 1/09/2001, In: Memory and Cognition. 29, 6, p. 850-859 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  23. 2000
  24. 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

  25. Published

    Investigating the causes of reading comprehension failure: the comprehension-age match design.

    Cain, K., Oakhill, J. V. & Bryant, P. E., 03/2000, In: Reading and Writing. 12, 1-2, p. 31-40 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  26. Published

    Children’s difficulties in text comprehension: assessing causal issues

    Oakhill, J. & Cain, K., 2000, In: Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. 5, 1, p. 51-59 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  27. 1999
  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. Published

    Problems in text comprehension: current perspectives and recent research

    Oakhill, J. & Cain, K., 1999, Problems and interventions in literacy development . Reitsma, P. & Verhoeven, L. (eds.). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 177-192 16 p. (Neuropsychology and Cognition; vol. 15).

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

  31. 1998
  32. Published

    Assessment of comprehension in reading

    Oakhill, J. & Cain, K., 1998, The psychological assessment of reading . Beech, J. R. & Singleton, C. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 176-203 28 p.

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

  33. 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

  34. Published

    Individual differences in young children's comprehension skill: toward an integrated mode

    Oakhill, J., Cain, K. & Yuill, N. M., 1998, Reading and spelling : development and disorders . Hulme, C. & Joshi, R. M. (eds.). Marwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, p. 343-367 25 p.

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

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