高校生の英語リーディング能力の発達 : 説明要因を中心に

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This study longitudinally investigated the development of Japanese high school students' reading ability, focusing on its explanatory factors. The participants were given six English tests, and based on the data path models illustrating the structures of the participants' English reading ability were presented. The main findings were the major explanatory variables in the lower grades were knowledge of written language including grammar, and in the upper grades, their phonological ability including listening played an active role. These diachronic shifts were also confirmed in the comparison of better readers and low-level readers' models. More skilled readers had phonological abilities as the explanatory factors of their English reading performance, while in low-level readers grammatical knowledge was a constant determinant factor. As a pedagogical implication, for low-level readers, a training to improve their lexical and grammatical knowledge combined with phonological awareness is recommended.
全国英語教育学会の論文