Reading speed, prosody, and comprehension results

The impact that the theory of automaticity has traditionally had on the explanation of reader development, together with the rise of concern that schoolchildren should acquire greater reading fluency, has caused a proliferation of studies that focus their attention on the speed of the readers. In ge...

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Autor: Recio-Pineda, Sara Recio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade de Brasília (UnB)
Repositorio:Revista Horizontes de Linguística Aplicada
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/26979
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/horizontesla/article/view/26979
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Fluency
Prosody
Speed
Comprehension
Reading
Prosodia
Velocidad
Comprensión
Lectura
Fluidez
Fluência
Prosódia
Velocidade
Compreensão
Leitura
Descripción
Sumario:The impact that the theory of automaticity has traditionally had on the explanation of reader development, together with the rise of concern that schoolchildren should acquire greater reading fluency, has caused a proliferation of studies that focus their attention on the speed of the readers. In general, however, these works have forgotten to interpret how reading prosody affects comprehension. The purpose of this paper is to explain how the variables of speed and prosody affect comprehension on a sample of 72 primary school students. A quantitative correlational method is used for this. The results point out that it is the prosody (and not the duration of the reading) what affects the quality of understanding in reading.