Reading comprehension in French 1st and 2nd grade children: Contribution of decoding and language comprehension |
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| Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Hakima?MegherbiEmail author Alix?Seigneuric Marie-France?Ehrlich |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota, 56 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA;(2) Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, USA |
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| Abstract: | This paper reports a study conducted with French first-grade and second-grade children (mean age: 6;8 and 7;8 respectively).
The first aim was to re-examine the Gough and Tunmer’s (1986) Simple View in assessing the specific contribution of decoding
ability and language comprehension to reading comprehension. The second one was to analyse the difficulties of children in
reading comprehension. Reading and listening comprehension were assessed using both visual and auditory version of the same
test. Decoding ability was assessed by means of a nonword reading test. On the basis of reading comprehension scores, skilled
and less skilled comprehenders were contrasted, and then two groups of less skilled comprehenders were differentiated on the
basis of the decoding scores.
Hierarchical regression analyses computed on the whole sample showed that listening comprehension was a more powerful predictor
than decoding ability in first- and second-grade children. In both grades, the pattern of performance in less skilled comprehenders
showed a relative independence between decoding and reading comprehension. The good decoders’ group and the poor decoders’
group showed similar poor performance in reading comprehension and poor performance in listening comprehension. However, their
difficulties could stem from different sources. Some instructional recommendations were formulated taking into account individual
differences in decoding and spoken language abilities, as soon as the first months of formal reading acquisition. |
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