In addition to the research, anyone who has ever read a bedtime story to a preschooler knows that listening comprehension is more sophisticated than reading comprehension. Simply stated, children can listen to and talk about much more complex ideas than they can read (and probably write) about. What is obvious from this figure is the fact that access to complex ideas, for many years of the learner’s life, requires oral rather than written input. Based on their review of research, Stricht and James (1984) analyzed the gap between listening and reading comprehension by age of learner (see Figure 1). Decades of research, not to mention personal experiences, confirm that listening comprehension outpaces reading comprehension from early childhood through at least middle school.
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