The comparisons of various naming speeds among reading-disabled children and age-matched- as well as reading-level-matched control groups

• Main Authors: Hsieh Chun-Ming, 謝俊明
• Other Authors: 曾世杰
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/03816559319389089282

碩士 === 國立臺東大學 === 教育研究所 === 92 === This study tried to examine the differences of 7 naming speeds among reading-disabled children and their control groups. According to Wolf’s (2000) hypothesis, naming speed is one of the very likely causations of reading disabilities. This study tried to test whether naming speed still plays an important role in young Taiwanese readers whose written language orthography was very different from those of the participants in Wolf’s studies. The researcher compared mean differences of 7 naming-speed tests between reading-disabled (RD) group and two control groups matched with age(age-matched, AM) and reading level(reading-level matched, RM). The RD group was composed of 31 students, aged 9 to 12, who had severe difficulties in reading comprehension and Chinese character recognition. Observations, interviews, and related tests were conducted to make sure that children in RD group met a list of strictly defined RD criteria. Among the groups, demographic variables such as gender, social economic status, and class were controlled by careful case-by-case matching procedures. All participants received 7 naming-speed subtests (Lin, 2001). Scores of a Chinese character recognition test (Huang, 1999) and a reading comprehension test (Chen, 1999) were collected as dependent measures. As predicted, RDs were significantly slower than AMs in all 7 naming subtests. RDs were also slower than RMs in all 7 naming subtests, however only 4 out of 7 post-hoc comparisons reached the significant level of .05. These results indicated that naming speed could impose a one-way influence on reading. The opposite way of influence was not possible because the reading abilities of RDs and RMs were controlled and had to be considered equal in the design. Therefore the naming speed differences between RDs and RMs could not be accounted for by reading abilities. Correlation analysis revealed that naming speed has stronger relationship with character recognition than with reading comprehension. Also, certain naming speeds did accounted for the variances of character recognition and reading comprehension in different groups. This again supports the significance of naming in Chinese reading processing. Theoretical and practical implications as well as suggestions for future researchers were discussed in the thesis. Keywords: Double deficit hypothesis naming-speed reading disability