The Relationship between Grade Nine Boys’ and Girls’ Oral Reading Fluency and Their Reading Comprehension Ability文献综述

 2022-09-08 12:07:07

The relationship between Middle School boysrsquo; and girlsrsquo; Oral Reading Fluency and their Reading Comprehension Ability

摘要：Reading, as one of the language abilities, is of tremendous importance in studentsrsquo; study. It is the educatorsrsquo; duty to find out some factors related to studentsrsquo; reading comprehension and try to help studetns improve their reading ability. Many researches have confirmed that studentsrsquo; reading fluency, including silent reading fluency, oral reading fluency and retell fluency, is highly related to their reading comprehension. However, as it is known to all, there are many differences between boys and girls, such as motivation, interest, learning attitude and so on. Therefore, it is a necessity for us to study the relationship between boysrsquo; and girlsrsquo; oral reading fluency and their reading comprehension respectively. Does oral reading fluency have the same effect on reading comprehension for boys and girls? Is the relavancy the same? This study is aimed to find out the relationship between middle school boysrsquo; and girlsrsquo; oral reading fluency and their reading comprehension ability.

关键词：oral reading fluency; reading comprehension; boys; girls; relationship; relevancy

一、文献综述

As Francis Bacon once said, reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have more cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Reading plays a vital role in onersquo;s development. On the one hand, reading a lot can help students get familiar with some reading skills and apply them into their academic exams so that they can get good grades. On the other hand, reading can also broaden studentsrsquo; horizons and even cultivate their sense of cultural awareness. To conclude, reading is so important that we can not afford to ignore it. For students, they should try their best to read more and improve their reading comprehension. For educators, they should spare no effort to help students make progress in reading skills as well as reading comprehension.

Reading is of tremendous significance, but what reading exactly is? Opinions differ from person to person. One of them is like this: Reading is a complex performance that requires simultaneous coordination among many tasks (as cited in Fuchs, Fuchs, Hosp, amp; Jenkins, 2001). That is to say, readers need to balance several different tasks at the same time when they are reading. Then, what are those tasks are? What activities do readers need to do when reading? According to Rosenblatt, readers are required to do many tasks at the same time while reading, including the understanding of a complex and difficult concept which the author tries to convey to his readers, interpreting the written language into something abstract in their own minds, and finally making sense of it. In other words, when readers are reading a written text, they are thinking about it. And as a result, they get to construct the meaning from it. This is the exact process of reading (Turkyilmaz, Can, Yildirim, amp; Ates, 2014). The above description of “reading” is kind of theoretical. And to be practical, readers are acquiring information or reading othersrsquo; stories to enrich their own experiences while reading. After having a clear understanding of the definition of reading, letrsquo;s come to the importance of it.

Compared to speaking and writing, reading is a passive process. In other words, reading is a kind of input. However, this doesnrsquo;t mean reading is less important than speaking or writing. On the contrary, reading is of great importance in various aspects, like daily life, study and so on. According to National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), learning to read is perhaps childrsquo;s greatest school accomplishment (see also Rasinski amp; Padak 2008). And as Strommen amp; Mates cited, learning to read is valued by many societies and the ability to read is considered most important aim of education (Strommen, amp; Mates, 2004; Turkyilmaz, Can, Yildirim, amp; Ates, 2014). From this, we can know that reading ability is valued so much that it can be seen as the most important goal in onersquo;s education. Therefore, students are encouraged to get command of reading skills and the educators are obliged to teach students how to read efficiently. In terms of middle school education, here are another two vivid examples to illustrate the importance of reading. They are the reform of the senior high school entrance examination as well as the reform of the English textbooks in middle school.

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