The effect of an expressive reading aloud on readers' comprehension and motivation

2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K04319
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Educational psychology
• Research Institution: Hosei University
• Principal Investigator: FUKUDA Yuki 法政大学, 文学部, 教授 (90241190)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
• Keywords: 朗読 / 黙読 / 理解 / 読み手の感情 / 脳血流動態反応 / 眼球運動

Outline of Final Research Achievements

It was known that only people who read the positive stories aloud expressively felt better than ones who read it aloud. In this study, a silent reading which was ahead of expressive reading aloud was compred with a normal slient reading. As a result, they do silent reading a positive story carefully, understand it deeply, and feel better, when people know that they will expressively read it aloud later. Also the brain area related to positive experiences was activated. After a series of experiments, an experiment for readers’ motivation was condcted. The result suggested that the expressive reading aloud affected readers’ subjective motivation for reading behavior by changes with readers’ feelings.

Free Research Field

教育心理学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究の成果の学術的意義は次の3点である。(1)朗読を予告するといった簡便な方法で読み手自身の読み方を変え，その結果，深い理解やポジティブな感情を得られることなどの効果を示した。(2) テスト得点などだけではなく，脳科学的な観点からも朗読予告の効果を明らかにした。(3) 読書行動を促進するための一つの手段として朗読の効果を示した。これらの結果は，情報を読み飛ばしがちな通常の読み方が簡単に変えられるという点と，また，読書離れに対する１つの解決方法として社会的意義は高い。