Developmental Trajectory and Influencing Factors of Silent Reading Fluency for Chinese School-aged Children

Abstract

Abstract: Reading fluency is important for academic learning. A sample of 145 initial primary students was followed up for one year and children’ silent reading fluency was examined for three times. Children were also tested by IQ, word decoding, oral vocabulary, oral reading fluency at the first wave. Latent growth modeling was used to examine children’s initial levels and growth in silent reading fluency and the predictions of initial levels and growth from word decoding, oral vocabulary, oral reading fluency. Results indicated that: (1) silent reading fluency increased linearly during grade one to grade two, and the initial levels and growth were found to be significantly variable, but both were not correlated significantly. (2) Word decoding contributed significantly to the initial levels of silent reading fluency. However, the growth of silent reading fluency was predicted significantly by oral vocabulary and oral reading fluency.

Key words: silent reading fluency, word decoding, oral vocabulary, oral reading fluency

摘要： 流畅的阅读在儿童学习中具有重要作用。对145名一年级儿童进行了历时一年的三个时间点的追踪研究，测查了他们的智力、字词解码、口语词汇、口语流畅和默读流畅，采用潜变量增长模型检验儿童早期的汉语默读流畅是否呈现线性增长，并且考察默读流畅的发展是否受语言相关技能（字词解码、口语词汇、口语流畅）的影响。结果表明：（1）早期默读流畅呈线性增长，起始水平和后期的增长速度不存在显著相关，但二者均存在显著的个体差异；（2）字词解码影响默读流畅的起始水平，口语词汇和口语流畅影响着默读流畅的发展速度。

关键词: 默读流畅, 字词解码, 口语词汇, 口语流畅

CLC Number:

B844.1

LI Liping, WU Xinchun, FENG Ansheng, CHEN Yun. Developmental Trajectory and Influencing Factors of Silent Reading Fluency for Chinese School-aged Children[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2019, 17(5): 627-633.

李利平, 伍新春, 封安生, 陈芸. 学龄儿童早期汉语默读流畅的发展轨迹及影响因素[J]. 心理与行为研究, 2019, 17(5): 627-633.

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