Predicting Korean EFL Learners’ Reading Comprehension with Decoding Skills and Oral Vocabulary Knowledge

• 영문명: Predicting Korean EFL Learners’ Reading Comprehension with Decoding Skills and Oral Vocabulary Knowledge
• 발행기관: 팬코리아영어교육학회(구 영남영어교육학회)
• 저자명: Hyobin Ahn
• 간행물 정보: 『영어교육연구』제28권 1호, 1~19쪽, 전체 19쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 교육학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2016.03.31

영문 초록

The present study investigated the role of decoding skills and oral vocabulary knowledge inpredicting Korean EFL students’ reading comprehension abilities. In doing so, reading volumeand frustration degree were also considered as predicting variables of reading comprehension.The participants of the study were forty-two seventh-grade Korean middle school students, whowere tested on the measures of pseudo- and real-word decoding, oral vocabulary knowledge,reading volume, degree of frustration, and reading comprehension. Data were first analyzedwith correlation analysis, and a series of hierarchical regression analyses were further conductedin order to examine the relative predictive power of decoding skills and oral vocabularyknowledge. The results indicated that all of the variables were statistically significantlycorrelated to each other and both decoding skills and oral vocabulary knowledge explainedunique variance in reading comprehension even after controlling for the effects of readingvolume and frustration. However, when compared, oral vocabulary knowledge turned out to bea more powerful predictor of reading comprehension than decoding skills. Implications ontheory, policy, and classroom instructions are discussed.

목차

I. INTRODUCTION

II. LITERATURE REVIEW

III. METHOD

IV. RESULTS

V. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION

REFERENCES