The English Oral Reading Fluency Test: Relationships to Comprehension and Test Takers' Attitudes

Autor/inn/en	Tunskul, Thidawan; Piamsai, Chatraporn
Titel	The English Oral Reading Fluency Test: Relationships to Comprehension and Test Takers' Attitudes
Quelle	In: LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 9 (2016) 1, S. 25-44 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2630-0672
Schlagwörter	Forschungsbericht; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Oral Language; Language Fluency; Language Tests; Political Science; Undergraduate Students; Reading Comprehension; Comparative Analysis; Evaluation Methods; Reading Tests; Scores; Accuracy; Intonation; Suprasegmentals; Correlation; Student Attitudes; Test Anxiety; Positive Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Thailand (Bangkok) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Language test; Sprachtest; Staatslehre; Politikwissenschaft; Politische Wissenschaft; Leseverstehen; Lesetest; Korrelation; Schülerverhalten; Examination phobia; Testangst; Prüfungsangst; Ausland
Abstract	This study compared various measures used to assess oral reading fluency skills in relation to reading comprehension. The participants were 54 first year students from the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University. An English Oral Reading Fluency (EORF) test and a set of comprehension questions were devised. Then, the scores of rate, accuracy and prosody were compared to investigate to what extent different oral reading fluency measures contributed to comprehension by using multiple regression analysis. The results revealed that only accuracy made a statistically significant unique contribution to comprehension. When focusing on the relationships of each oral reading fluency measure (rate, accuracy and prosody) with comprehension, it was found that there were significant positive moderate correlations between accuracy and comprehension, and prosody and comprehension. In addition, the study examined the test takers' attitudes toward the EORF test regarding their anxiety, attitudes and opinion. The findings indicated that even though some students had exhibited certain signs of anxiety from taking the EORF test, those who experienced no anxiety outnumbered them, and the majority of the test takers had positive attitudes and opinions toward the EORF test. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Language Institute of Thammasat University. The Prachan Campus, 2 Prachan Road, Bangkok 10200 Thailand. e-mail: learnjournal@gmail.com; Web site: https://www.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/learn
Begutachtung	Peer reviewed
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01