Psychological Development and Education ›› 2019, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (6): 686-696.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2019.06.06

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The Developmental Trajectories of Reading Fluency and Its Predictive Effects on Reading Comprehension in Chinese Primary School Students

CHENG Yahua1, ZHOU Tingna1, ZHAO Ying2, LI Hong2, WU Xinchun2   

  1. 1. Department of Psychology, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211;
    2. Research Center of Children's Reading and Learning, Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Published:2019-11-20

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Abstract: 149 children in grade one were followed up for three years from grade one entering to grade three. Latent growth modeling was conducted to examine the developmental trajectory of reading fluency and the predictive effects of the initial level and growth rates in reading fluency on reading comprehension after controlling for the related variables. Results indicated that children's word reading fluency increased in a non-linear trajectory, while sentence reading fluency increased in a linear trajectory during the follow-up period. The individual difference of word reading fluency showed a decreasing trend while individual difference increased in sentence reading fluency. The results also showed that initial status and growth rates of word reading fluency made a significant direct contribution to reading comprehension at Time 5 after controlling for the related variables. In addition, initial status of sentence reading fluency did not have the predictive effects on reading comprehension at Time 5. Growth rates of sentence reading fluency, however, made a significant direct contribution to reading comprehension at Time 5. The present findings have an important role in elucidating developmental changes of children's reading fluency. The findings underscore the importance of growth in reading fluency for reading comprehension and add to the literature about the nature of the reading fluency and reading comprehension relationship in Chinese.

Key words: reading fluency, reading comprehension, developmental trajectories, latent growth modeling

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  • G442
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