Simple view of reading

Chung-Ang University Study Validates the Simple View of Reading for Enhancing Second and Foreign Language Learners' Experience

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金曜日, 8月 18, 2023

It attributes a person's reading comprehension ability to two skills—word recognition (decoding) and language comprehension.

Key Points: 
  • It attributes a person's reading comprehension ability to two skills—word recognition (decoding) and language comprehension.
  • However, SVR is known to have some limitations in the context of second as well as foreign languages (SFL).
  • Their analysis revealed decoding skills and language comprehension skills to be the primary components for effective SFL reading instruction.
  • Title of original paper: Extending the Simple View of Reading in Second and Foreign Language Learning: A Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling Approach