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1990 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Determinants of Inter- and Intra-Individual Differences in Text Comprehension.

Research Project

Project/Area Number 62510067
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field Psychology
Research InstitutionDokkyo University

Principal Investigator

HATANO Giyoo  Dokkyo University, Faculty of Liberal Arts Professor, 教養部, 教授 (60049575)

Project Period (FY) 1987 – 1989
KeywordsReading / Inter-individual differences / Intra-individual differences / Word naming speed / Text comprehension / Decoding skill
Research Abstract

Aims of the present study were to investigate whether Perfetti's verbal efficiency theory could be applied to Japanese (in Part I) and to English, French or German, learned as a foreign language (in Part II). More specifically, it was examined (a) whether students, reading comprehension of a text in the target language would be affected by their vocalization latency of words in that language, and (b) whether the effects would be greater for pseudowords than for real words, and for harder words than easier words..
In Part I vocalization latencies of words written in hiragan Ba and kanji were found to be shorter for skilled readers than for less skilled readers at the 5th-grada, The reader differences were found not to be greater for pseudowords than for realwords (Experiments 1-3), suggesting that the acquisition of decoding skill of hragana is easy and there are no general decoding rules for Kanji. Differences between skilled and less skilled readers among university students were negligible in naming words either in hiragana or Kanji (Experiments 4 & 5), probably because the lexical access was uniformly automatic for them.
In Part II vocalization latencies of English words were found to be a significant (negatieve) predictor of the score on the test of English reading comprehension (Experiments 5 & 6). However, no significant correlation was found between the vocalization latency and reading comprehension either for Fench or German (Experiment 6).

  • Research Products

    (6 results)

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All Publications (6 results)

  • [Publications] 波多野 誼余夫: "外国語における読解能力と単語音読潜時の関連" 獨協大学外国語教育研究. 10.

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  • [Publications] Hatano, G., KuharaーKojima, K., Saito, H.: "Application of the verbal efficiency theory to syllabic and logographic orthographies." Reading Research Quarterly.

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  • [Publications] 小嶋 恵子, 波多野 誼余夫, 齋藤 洋典: "母語と外国語における読解力と単語命名潜時の関連" 日本心理学会第54回大会論文集. 674 (1990)

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  • [Publications] 小嶋 恵子, 波多野 誼余夫, 齋藤 洋典: "幼児における平仮名文字の命名潜時と特殊音節の読みの関連" 日本教育心理学会第32回総会発表論文集. 107 (1990)

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  • [Publications] Hatano, G.: "Text comprehension and vocalization latency for words in foreign languages." Studies in Foreign Language Teaching, Dokkyo University. 10.

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  • [Publications] Hatano, G., Kuhara-Kojima, K., & Saito, H.: "Application of the verbal efficiency theory to syllabic and logographic orthographies." Reading Research Quarterly.

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      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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Published: 1993-08-12  

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