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García Pérez, José Ricardo Sánchez Miguel, Emilio Cain, Kate Montoya, Juan Manuel 2024-02-02T08:14:41Z 2024-02-02T08:14:41Z 2019 2099-09-09 García, J. R., Sánchez, E., Cain, K., & Montoya, J. M. (2019). Cross-sectional Study of the Contribution of Rhetorical Competence to Children’s Expository Texts Comprehension between Third- and Sixth-Grade. Learning and Individual Differences, 71, 31–42. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2019.03.005 1041-6080 http://hdl.handle.net/10366/155191 10.1016/j.lindif.2019.03.005 [EN]Readers' rhetorical competence is related to reading comprehension and moderates the impact of rhetorical devices in expository texts since upper elementary school years. In this cross-sectional study, we examine the differences in four measures of rhetorical competence (knowledge of anaphors, organizational signals, refutations, and a total score) in grades three through to six, we determine its contribution to expository text comprehension after controlling the effect of a wide set of linguistic and cognitive variables, and we study whether this contribution is moderated by grade or any of our control variables. First, although we found evidence for some level of rhetorical competence at early ages, data suggest that rhetorical competence development takes many years. Second, we found that knowledge of some rhetorical devices is acquired before knowledge of others. Finally, rhetorical competence was a unique predictor of expository text comprehension, and its influence was evident regardless of grade and all of the control variables. Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness European Regional Development Fund eng Elsevier Inc Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess Cross-sectional study Expository texts Reading comprehension Rhetorical competence Rhetorical devices Cross-sectional Study of the Contribution of Rhetorical Competence to Children’s Expository Texts Comprehension between Third- and Sixth-Grade info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2019.03.005 EDU2012-33593 y EDU2016-76857-P Learning and Individual Differences 71 31 42