A Research on reading fluency in Chinese Children with Dyslexia

Abstract

Abstract: The study was to explore the effect of age of acquisition and sentence length on reading fluency in 10 dyslexic and 10 age and IQ matched normal readers. Result indicated that the total reading fluency scores of the dyslexic group were significantly slower than the control group. Reading times of the dyslexic group were significantly longer than the control group. The accuracy of the dyslexic group were significantly worse than control group. They have more errors in adding, missing, and replacing. Both the age of acquisition and sentence length has a significant impact on reading fluency of the dyslexic group. As the processing difficulty of words to make it increases, sentence length effect was amplified. Age of acquisition affect the replacing error, sentence length affect the adding error.

Key words: dyslexia, reading fluency, syntactic complexity, sentence length, Age of acquisition

摘要： 采用篇章朗读任务,探讨了词汇的获得年龄与句子长度对10名阅读障碍儿童与10名普通儿童的阅读流畅性影响。结果发现,阅读障碍儿童的阅读流畅性比普通儿童差,表现为朗读时间更长,准确性差,出现更多的省略错误、替代错误、添加错误。词汇获得年龄和句子长度对阅读障碍儿童的阅读流畅性都有显著的影响,随着单字词加工难度增加,句长效应被放大。词汇获得年龄影响替代错误的发生,句子长度影响省略错误的发生。

关键词: 阅读障碍, 阅读流畅性, 句法难度, 句长, 词汇获得年龄

CLC Number:

B842.5

Chan Zhang, Xiaosong Gai. A Research on reading fluency in Chinese Children with Dyslexia[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2013, 11(3): 340-345.

张婵, 盖笑松. 汉语阅读障碍儿童的阅读流畅性研究[J]. 心理与行为研究, 2013, 11(3): 340-345.

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