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On the development of reading in good and poor readers
Author(s) -
Magnusson Eva,
Nauclér Kerstin
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
international journal of applied linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.712
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1473-4192
pISSN - 0802-6106
DOI - 10.1111/j.1473-4192.1991.tb00014.x
Subject(s) - reading comprehension , reading (process) , comprehension , psychology , linguistics , decoding methods , cognitive psychology , computer science , algorithm , philosophy
Data from a longitudinal study with language‐disordered and matched linguistically normal children are used to assess good and poor reading development from grade 1 to grade 4. Reading level is defined as comprehension, not as decoding ability, and the development of the subjects’comprehension, reading accuracy, and reading rate indicates that decoding is not necessarily the prerequisite of comprehension. By means of a linguistically based model for the analysis of reading errors, it is shown that good and poor comprehenders also differ as to reading strategies: good comprehenders tend to use meaningful units to a greater extent than poor comprehenders, their reading errors are more often negligible, and they violate syntactic rules less frequently than do poor readers.