The Role of Working Memory in Explaining Reading ComprehensionPerformance in University Students

This study investigates the crucial role of working memory capacity in reading comprehensionin young adults; it describes readers’ working memory abilities and their reading comprehensioncapacities, and it examines the effect of students’ working memory on their reading comprehension.To this end, two tests measuring storage abilities and reading comprehension are administered to onehundred third year English language students. Finally the calculated correlations have shown a verysignificant relationship between working memory and reading comprehension.