Decoding Skills vs. Reading Fluency in Korean High School EFL Learners’ Reading ComprehensionDecoding Skills vs. Reading Fluency in Korean High School EFL Learners’ Reading Comprehension
- Other Titles
- Decoding Skills vs. Reading Fluency in Korean High School EFL Learners’ Reading Comprehension
- Authors
- 강유선; 허윤지; 문보람; 박여은
- Issue Date
- 2014
- Publisher
- 한국영어교육학회
- Keywords
- decoding skills; reading fluency; reading comprehension; Korean EFL learners
- Citation
- 영어교육, v.69, no.4, pp.123 - 143
- Indexed
- KCI
- Journal Title
- 영어교육
- Volume
- 69
- Number
- 4
- Start Page
- 123
- End Page
- 143
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/99879
- DOI
- 10.15858/engtea.69.4.201412.123
- ISSN
- 1017-7108
- Abstract
- Despite the general understanding of the prominent role of basic reading sub-skills, such as decoding abilities and reading fluency, in the reading comprehension of younger and proficient first and second language readers, little is known about the role of these skills in older and less skilled readers in foreign language contexts. The present study was designed to investigate how decoding skills and reading fluency relate to the reading comprehension of such readers, and to identify the relative strengths between the two. Two hundred twenty two Korean high school students participated, and their performance on decoding, reading fluency, and reading comprehension tasks was analyzed. The results showed that both decoding skills and reading fluency were strongly correlated to reading comprehension. Moreover, between the two fundamental reading sub-skills, decoding skills outperformed reading fluency in explaining reading comprehension, making a unique contribution beyond the effects of reading fluency. These findings suggest that a basic skill like word decoding still deserves instructional attention even at the secondary schools in EFL contexts.
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