語を構成する各文字は読めるが、語全体を流暢に読めない幼児における読みの流暢性の獲得過程 : 縦断研究

抄録

The purpose of the present study was to investigate longitudinally the development of fluency in reading words and nonwords in typically developing children who could read all the letters in the words but could not read the whole words fluently. The participants were 5 children aged 4 to 5. Words and nonwords were used as stimuli in a reading task. The number of correct and fluent readings increased more rapidly for the words than for the nonwords in 3 of the children. Correct and fluent readings of both the words and the nonwords by the fourth child increased rapidly. The fifth child could only 1 word and 1 nonword by the final measurement day. At the beginning of the study, the mean reading time for the words by 2 of the 5 children was shorter than for the nonwords. The present results suggest that a variety of rates or processes exist in the development of reading fluency for words and nonwords in typically developing children.