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Reading Fluency: How does it Develop and How can it be Fostered?
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SSHRC Awarded IG 2016: The objectives of the proposed study are:
1] To test the validity of a widely-used model of reading fluency longitudinally (from Grade 1 to Grade 5) and across languages varying in orthographic consistency (English, Dutch, and Greek);
2] To examine the role of orthographic learning in reading fluency development across languages (English, Dutch, and Greek); and
3] To examine the effectiveness of two reading fluency interventions in English.
To accomplish these objectives we will conduct three longitudinal studies (two studies will involve typically-developing children and one study dysfluent readers) and we will integrate information derived from both offline (paper-and-pencil tasks) and online (eye-tracking) ways of measuring fluency.We know surprisingly little about how a child gradually develops into a fluent reader and whether the process of becoming fluent is similar across languages with different orthographic characteristics. This work will contribute to the development of a more comprehensive model of reading fluency, documenting how different component skills (e.g., rapid naming, letter-sound fluency, orthographic knowledge) uniquely and jointly contribute to it. By testing our hypotheses across languages varying in orthographic consistency (English, Dutch, and Greek), we also address a major limitation of existing theories of reading development, namely that they possibly apply only to English.
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- Date created
- 2015-10-14
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- Interventions
- Writing
- Canada
- Comprehension
- Netherlands
- Cross-Linguistics
- Education
- Educational Psychology
- Counselling Psychology
- Grant application
- Fluency
- Europe
- Successful SSHRC
- Insight Grant
- IG
- English
- Reading
- Children
- Greek
- 2016
- Dutch
- Literacy
- Sshrc grants
- Orthographic Learning
- Linguistics
- Eye Movement
- Greece
- 21st Century
- Canada
- Netherlands
- Greece
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- Type of Item
- Research Material
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- © de Jong, Peter. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2024.