Visuospatial Working Memory and the Hybrid Reading Fluency Measure

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Volume 33, No. 2

contributor.author:

Bazan, Bartolo

date.accessioned:

2021-10-14T23:19:04Z

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2021-10-14T23:19:04Z

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2021-10-15

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In this study, I sought to investigate whether visuospatial working memory (VWM) explains individual differences in reading fluency growth. One hundred and thirty Japanese junior and senior high school students were administered the Mr. Peanut and reversed Corsi tasks, respectively as measures of VWM, followed by three waves of reading fluency assessment. To assess reading fluency, a novel reading fluency measure was constructed by combining the participants’ comprehension scores with their reading speeds into a single measure using many-facet Rasch measurement. Latent growth curve analyses revealed that VWM significantly predicted variation in the individual growth trajectories at the initial status but did not significantly predict rate of change. Results of Rasch analyses indicated that the novel reading comprehension-speed measure assessed a unidimensional construct, thus suggesting that the construction of this measure is both a practical and valid approach to estimating reading fluency as well as reading passage difficulty.

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endingpage:

167

identifier.citation:

Bazan, B. (2021). Visuospatial working memory and the hybrid reading fluency measure. Reading in a Foreign Language, 33(2), 141-167. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/67398

identifier.issn:

1539-0578

identifier.uri:

http://hdl.handle.net/10125/67398

number:

2

publicationname:

Reading in a Foreign Language

publisher:

University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center Center for Language & Technology

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/rfl/item/530

startingpage:

141

subject:

L2 reading fluency latent growth modeling many-facet Rasch measurement the Rasch model visuospatial working memory

title:

Visuospatial Working Memory and the Hybrid Reading Fluency Measure

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Article

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Text

volume:

33