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

Autor/in	Hussien, Abdelaziz M.
Titel	The Indicating Factors of Oral Reading Fluency of Monolingual and Bilingual Children in Egypt
Quelle	In: International Education Studies, 7 (2014) 2, S.75-90 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1913-9020
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Oral Reading; Reading Fluency; Reading Comprehension; Reading Rate; Accuracy; Suprasegmentals; Monolingualism; Bilingualism; Semitic Languages; Grade 6; Intermediate Grades; Bilingual Education; Reading Tests; Goodness of Fit; Models; Educational Indicators; Reading Achievement; Comparative Analysis; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Orthographic Symbols; Statistical Analysis; Egypt + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Oral work; Reading; Mündliche Übung; Leseprozess; Lesen; Leseverstehen; Reading readiness; Reading speed; Lesegeschwindigkeit; Bilingualismus; Arabisch; Hebräisch; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06; Mittelstufe; Bilingual teaching; Bilingualer Unterricht; Lesetest; Analogiemodell; Educational indicato; Bildungsindikator; Leseleistung; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Statistische Analyse; Ägypten
Abstract	This study examined oral reading fluency (ORF) of bilingual and monolingual students. The author selected a sample of 510 (258 males and 252 females) native Arabic-speaking sixth-graders (62 bilinguals and 448 monolinguals) in Egypt. The purposes were; (a) to examine oral reading rate, oral reading accuracy, prosody, and oral reading comprehension as indicating factors in ORF, and b) to investigate the impact of bilingual education on students' ORF in Arabic. Participants individually completed the author-developed Oral Reading Fluency Measure. Results indicated a very good fit between the proposed model and the observed data i.e., oral reading rate, oral reading accuracy, prosody, and oral reading comprehension are significant indicators of ORF. Interestingly, results revealed that the bilingual students performed better than their monolingual counterparts on oral reading rate, oral reading accuracy, and prosody but not on oral reading comprehension. The discussion concludes that (a) in addition to oral reading rate, oral reading accuracy, and prosody, oral reading comprehension is a significant indicating factor of ORF, (b) learning a second language, English, has a positive effect on ORF in the first language, Arabic, and (c) the nature of Arabic orthography is an indispensible factor when examining ORF in science of reading. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01