Psychological Development and Education ›› 2021, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (5): 691-700.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2021.05.10

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The Relation between Oral Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension among Chinese Children: A 3-year Longitudinal Study

ZHOU Tingna1, LI Yixun2, LI Hong3, XU Zhonggeng1, ZHANG Feng1, CHENG Yahua1   

  1. 1. Department of Psychology, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211;
    2. Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland, College Park 20742, USA;
    3. Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Psychology Education(Beijing Normal University), Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Published:2021-09-23

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Abstract: The present study followed a sample of Chinese second-grade (n=196) through fourth-grade students to evaluate the dynamic developmental relations between oral reading fluency (including word reading fluency and text reading fluency) and reading comprehension. Cross-lagged panel model was conducted to test for the presence of leading and lagging influences after controlling for nonverbal reasoning, character recognition, vocabulary knowledge, rapid automatized naming (RAN) and the auto-regression effects. The results showed that:(1) previous levels of word reading fluency acted as leading indicators of reading comprehension growth, but the reverse relation was not found; (2) Bidirectional predictive relation was found between text reading fluency and reading comprehension. The results support cognitive resources and automaticity theory and supplement the interactive-compensatory model of reading.

Key words: oral reading fluency, reading comprehension, longitudinal study, Chinese children

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