Relationship between oral reading fluency and reading comprehension among ESL students

Fluency is one of the five components of reading competency alongside with phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary and comprehension. It is related to reading comprehension and it can be used to predict the reading competency of a reader. However, research on such relationship is limited in ESL cont...

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Main Authors:	Khor, Ching Pey, Low, Hui Min, Lee, Lay Wah
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Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit UKM 2014
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7763/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7763/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7763/1/5224-18826-1-PB.pdf

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spelling	ukm-77632016-12-14T06:45:07Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7763/ Relationship between oral reading fluency and reading comprehension among ESL students Khor, Ching Pey Low, Hui Min Lee, Lay Wah Fluency is one of the five components of reading competency alongside with phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary and comprehension. It is related to reading comprehension and it can be used to predict the reading competency of a reader. However, research on such relationship is limited in ESL context. Hence, the purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between three sub-skills of fluency (accuracy, reading rate and prosody) and reading comprehension among a sample of ESL students in a Malaysian school. It also aims to examine the concurrent validity of using the objective (i.e. reading accuracy and rate) and subjective (reading prosody) measures of fluency. It is hoped that the findings could shed light in identifying the possible methods of assessing oral reading fluency in ESL classrooms. The participants were 67 lower secondary school students who learn English as their second language. The students completed a reading comprehension test and then they were asked to read aloud the texts used in the test, individually. The individual reading sessions were audio recorded for the analysis of three sub-skills of reading fluency. Bivariate correlation analysis was then conducted to measure the strength of relationships with reading comprehension. The results revealed that all three sub-skills of fluency were strongly correlated with reading comprehension. Both objective (accuracy and reading rate) and subjective (prosody) rating scales were strongly related, and thus could be used in parallel or interchangeably in the assessment of oral reading fluency. The findings provided evidence that in line with the research findings in English as the first language contexts, reading fluency is closely associated with reading comprehension in an ESL context. Penerbit UKM 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/7763/1/5224-18826-1-PB.pdf Khor, Ching Pey and Low, Hui Min and Lee, Lay Wah (2014) Relationship between oral reading fluency and reading comprehension among ESL students. GEMA: Online Journal of Language Studies, 14 (3). pp. 19-32. ISSN 1675-8021 http://ejournal.ukm.my/gema/index
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description	Fluency is one of the five components of reading competency alongside with phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary and comprehension. It is related to reading comprehension and it can be used to predict the reading competency of a reader. However, research on such relationship is limited in ESL context. Hence, the purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between three sub-skills of fluency (accuracy, reading rate and prosody) and reading comprehension among a sample of ESL students in a Malaysian school. It also aims to examine the concurrent validity of using the objective (i.e. reading accuracy and rate) and subjective (reading prosody) measures of fluency. It is hoped that the findings could shed light in identifying the possible methods of assessing oral reading fluency in ESL classrooms. The participants were 67 lower secondary school students who learn English as their second language. The students completed a reading comprehension test and then they were asked to read aloud the texts used in the test, individually. The individual reading sessions were audio recorded for the analysis of three sub-skills of reading fluency. Bivariate correlation analysis was then conducted to measure the strength of relationships with reading comprehension. The results revealed that all three sub-skills of fluency were strongly correlated with reading comprehension. Both objective (accuracy and reading rate) and subjective (prosody) rating scales were strongly related, and thus could be used in parallel or interchangeably in the assessment of oral reading fluency. The findings provided evidence that in line with the research findings in English as the first language contexts, reading fluency is closely associated with reading comprehension in an ESL context.
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title	Relationship between oral reading fluency and reading comprehension among ESL students
title_short	Relationship between oral reading fluency and reading comprehension among ESL students
title_full	Relationship between oral reading fluency and reading comprehension among ESL students
title_fullStr	Relationship between oral reading fluency and reading comprehension among ESL students
title_full_unstemmed	Relationship between oral reading fluency and reading comprehension among ESL students
title_sort	relationship between oral reading fluency and reading comprehension among esl students
publisher	Penerbit UKM
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Relationship between oral reading fluency and reading comprehension among ESL students

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