Comprehension Monitoring in Beginning Readers

Autor: Pekka Niemi, Riitta Kinnunen, Marja Vauras
Rok vydání: 1998
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Zdroj: Scientific Studies of Reading. 2:353-375
ISSN: 1532-799X
1088-8438
DOI: 10.1207/s1532799xssr0204_4
Popis: In this study, 132 first graders' comprehension-monitoring skills were examined and related to their decoding and listening-comprehension skills. Decoding skills were tested with a word-picture matching task and with word-naming and word-nonword decision tasks. Story-listening tasks were used in determining the level of listening comprehension. Children's comprehension monitoring was measured by means of an online method in which reactions to embedded comprehension obstacles (lexical, syntactical, factual falsehoods, or contradictions) were assessed. The number of "lookbacks" and the time spent in reading the target words/sentences were recorded and used as indicators of activities involved in comprehension monitoring. The results indicated that monitoring one's comprehension is already present in beginning reading but that the level of decoding and listening-comprehension skills affects the ways and efficacy of monitoring.
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