title: Is Oral/Text Reading Fluency a "Bridge" to Reading Comprehension?
abstract: In the present study we investigated developmental relations among word reading fluency, listening comprehension, and text reading fluency to reading comprehension in a relatively transparent language, Korean. A total of 98 kindergartners and 170 first graders in Korea were assessed on a series of tasks involving listening comprehension, word reading fluency, text reading fluency, and reading comprehension. Results from multigroup structural equation models showed that text reading fluency was a dissociable construct for both kindergartners and first graders. In addition, a developmental pattern emerged: listening comprehension was not uniquely related to text reading fluency for first graders, but not for kindergartners, over and above word reading fluency. In addition, text reading fluency was uniquely related to reading comprehension for kindergartners, but not for first graders, after accounting for word reading fluency and listening comprehension. For first graders, listening comprehension dominated the relations. There were no differences in the pattern of relations for skilled and less skilled readers in first grade. Results are discussed from a developmental perspective for reading comprehension component skills including text reading fluency.
authors: Florida Center for Reading Research and Florida State University, 1107 W. Call Street, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA.
authors: Young-Suk Grace
authors: YS
authors: Kim
authors: Busan National University of Education, Busan, South Korea.
authors: Chea Hyeong
authors: CH
authors: Park
authors: Florida Center for Reading Research and Florida State University, 1107 W. Call Street, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA.
authors: Richard K
authors: RK
authors: Wagner
keywords: Developmental model; Korean; Listening comprehension; Oral/text reading fluency; Reading comprehension; Transparent orthography
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