Volume 25, No. 1 Special Issue: Reading in Less Commonly Taught Languages Character reading fluency, word segmentation accuracy, and reading comprehension in L2 Chinese

Character reading fluency, word segmentation accuracy, and reading comprehension in L2 Chinese

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Volume 25, No. 1 Special Issue: Reading in Less Commonly Taught Languages
contributor.author:
Shen, Helen H. Jiang, Xin
date.accessioned:
2020-05-22T02:15:56Z
date.available:
2020-05-22T02:15:56Z
date.issued:
2013-04
description.abstract:
This study investigated the relationships between lower-level processing and general reading comprehension among adult L2 (second-language) beginning learners of Chinese, in both target and non–target language learning environments. Lower-level processing in Chinese reading includes the factors of character-naming accuracy, character-naming speed, and word segmentation accuracy. The results of this study show that all three components contribute to reading comprehension in conjunction. Among them, character-naming accuracy was identified as the strongest predictor for reading comprehension; this was followed by character-naming speed. Character reading accuracy was also identified as a major predictor for word segmentation. The findings of this study partially support the studies conducted on alphabetic languages. Based on the results, pedagogical implications are discussed and recommendations for improved teaching are formulated.
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endingpage:
25
identifier.doi:
10125/66679
identifier.issn:
1539-0578
identifier.uri:
http://hdl.handle.net/10125/66679
number:
1
publisher:
University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center Center for Language & Technology
rfl.topic:
Reading in Languages other than English
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/rfl/item/268
startingpage:
1
subject:
reading fluency character recognition reading comprehension L2 Chinese
title:
Character reading fluency, word segmentation accuracy, and reading comprehension in L2 Chinese
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Special
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Text
volume:
25