2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Developmental changes in the component skills of foreign language reading comprehension ability
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22520616
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Foreign language education
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | 読解力 / 外国語 / 構成技能 / L2 リーディング |
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| Research Abstract |
Reading comprehension is a complex cognitive skill that is supported by various component skills. The field of L2 (second language) reading research has identified a wide range of component skills underlying L2 reading ability. However, the understanding of the relative importance of different components and the change in their weights in the course of development has yet to be accomplished. To fill this gap, this research project has conducted three studies (one with university students, another with secondary school students, and a meta-analysis). Through these studies, the project has found relatively large and stable contributions of L2 linguistic knowledge components (vocabulary and grammar) and smaller and less stable contributions of comprehension components (first language reading comprehension and L2 listening comprehension) and processing efficiency components (lexical/sublexical processing and sentence processing).
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