AUTHOR=Zheng Haoyuan , Miao Xuecong , Dong Yang , Yuan Daniel-Chongbo TITLE=The relationship between grammatical knowledge and reading comprehension: A meta-analysis JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=14 YEAR=2023 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1098568 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1098568 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=

The study aimed to examine the cohesive tie effect on reading comprehension through the grammatical knowledge cognition process. The present meta-analysis examined the correlation between grammatical knowledge and reading comprehension based on empirical results published between 1998 and 2021. This study selected 86 studies with a total of 14,852 readers whose grades were grouped from primary school to university. The results showed that the overall correlation effect size between grammatical knowledge and reading comprehension was large, and the significant interaction effect of the grade group was confirmed through moderator analysis. The results suggested that the grammatical knowledge’s function of the cohesive tie has a transfer effect across different text comprehension scripts.