The Indicating Factors of Oral Reading Fluency of Monolingual and Bilingual Children in Egypt

Hussien, Abdelaziz M.

doi:10.5539/ies.v7n2p75

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“…The only comparable data is that of Hussien, 53 which showed a median oral reading rate of 90 WPM in 6th grade children. The obvious reason for the higher reading rate in Husseins's study is the higher grade levels of the children (6th versus 3rd grade readers).…”

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Toward developing a standardized Arabic continuous text reading chart

Alabdulkader

Leat

2017

Journal of Optometry

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PurposeNear visual acuity is an essential measurement during an oculo-visual assessment. Short duration continuous text reading charts measure reading acuity and other aspects of reading performance. There is no standardized version of such chart in Arabic. The aim of this study is to create sentences of equal readability to use in the development of a standardized Arabic continuous text reading chart.MethodsInitially, 109 Arabic pairs of sentences were created for use in constructing a chart with similar layout to the Colenbrander chart. They were created to have the same grade level of difficulty and physical length. Fifty-three adults and sixteen children were recruited to validate the sentences. Reading speed in correct words per minute (CWPM) and standard length words per minute (SLWPM) was measured and errors were counted. Criteria based on reading speed and errors made in each sentence pair were used to exclude sentence pairs with more outlying characteristics, and to select the final group of sentence pairs.ResultsForty-five sentence pairs were selected according to the elimination criteria. For adults, the average reading speed for the final sentences was 166 CWPM and 187 SLWPM and the average number of errors per sentence pair was 0.21. Childrens’ average reading speed for the final group of sentences was 61 CWPM and 72 SLWPM. Their average error rate was 1.71.ConclusionsThe reliability analysis showed that the final 45 sentence pairs are highly comparable. They will be used in constructing an Arabic short duration continuous text reading chart.

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Toward developing a standardized Arabic continuous text reading chart

Alabdulkader

Leat

2017

Journal of Optometry

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“…3, No. 1;2014 Answering the last key question of the current study "What is the effect of the genre (informational and poetic) on oral reading rate, oral reading accuracy and oral reading comprehension of the fifth and tenth grade students?" A Paired-Samples T Test was used as explained in Table 2.…”

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“…3, No. 1;2014 Latin orthographies, usually English, which makes the science of reading at most the science of reading English (Perfetti & Cao, 2013, p. 5). As consequences, reading research has limited relevance and implications for a universal science of reading (Share, 2008, p. 584).…”

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“…The point here is that how many words children can read aloud per minute? This requires considering many variables, chief among them, the uniqueness of orthography (Abu-Hajaj, 2006;Hussien, 2014), and genre being read, as explained above. Arabic orthography, for example, is transparent, if presented vowelized, and is a homographic, if introduced unvowelized.…”

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Reading Arabic Shallow and Deep Genres: Indispensible Variables to Science of Reading

Hussien

2014

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Most principles and propositions in the science of reading are derived from research on Latin orthographies, usually, in English while much less is known about Semitic orthographies, namely, Arabic. This study investigated the effect of vowels and type of genre on oral accuracy, oral rate, and oral comprehension in reading Arabic orthography. A convenience sample of 85 children (34 fifth male graders and 51 tenth male graders) was selected from two public schools in Saudi Arabia. The researcher developed two reading measures; the Fifth Grade Reading Measure and Tenth Grade Reading Measure. Each measure has two genres (informational and poetic) and two versions (shallow/vowelized and deep/unvowelized). Each child individually completed the two versions of the measure in his grade. The results revealed that the students read the shallow genres (informational and poetic) more accurately and with more comprehension but less rapidly than reading the deep genres. In addition, the students read the informational genre (shallow and deep) more accurately, rapidly, and with more comprehension than the poetic genre (shallow and deep). The discussion concludes that a) the nature of Arabic orthography, mainly vowels, is an indispensible variable to the literature of science of reading, b) oral reading accuracy, oral reading rate and oral reading comprehension are affected by the unique characteristics of the genre, and c) vowels in Arabic are important to improve oral reading accuracy, and oral reading comprehension for the first grades in primary school and later grades in secondary school as well.

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“…Unfortunately, there is no adequate research on this topic. Noting the limitation in the literature review for this study, the studies of Hussien (2014aHussien ( , 2014b should be mentioned. Hussien examined the language performance of bilingual children in both Arabic and English and concluded that they performed better than their monolingual counterparts (2014a) and that learning English has a positive effect on their Arabic skills (2014b).…”

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Omani Young Children’s Language Proficiencies: The Outcomes of a Bilingual Education Program

Tekin¹

2014

MJSS

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The Indicating Factors of Oral Reading Fluency of Monolingual and Bilingual Children in Egypt

Cited by 16 publications

References 77 publications

Toward developing a standardized Arabic continuous text reading chart

Toward developing a standardized Arabic continuous text reading chart

Reading Arabic Shallow and Deep Genres: Indispensible Variables to Science of Reading

Omani Young Children’s Language Proficiencies: The Outcomes of a Bilingual Education Program

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