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A Study on Comparison of Reading Abilities Characteristics and Relation between Reading Difficulties-at risk Students and General Students in Elementary School

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2019, 20(1), pp.111-136
  • DOI : 10.19049/JSPED.2019.20.1.06
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education
  • Received : February 21, 2019
  • Accepted : March 26, 2019
  • Published : March 31, 2019

KIM YOUNGGULL 1 WOO JEONG HAN 1 Kim, Nam-Jin 2

1대구사이버대학교
2대구대학교 한국특수교육문제연구소

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ABSTRACT

Reading is an essential basic function of academic learning and social life, and it is necessary to provide early intervention if there are difficulties in reading in the lower grades, as these difficulties are likely to persist. The purpose of this study were to compare the characteristics and the relation between word recognition and reading comprehension of reading difficulties-at risk students and general students in order to provide effective reading instruction. To do this, 1,380 elementary school students in grades 1 to 6 were screened for ‘Reading Skills Screening Test’. The results of this study are as follows: First, in the word recognition and reading comprehension areas, general students’ means were higher than reading difficulties-at risk students and had statistical significance. Second, subordinate variables affecting word recognition were letter knowledge, phonological awareness, word awareness, and spelling. In addition, subordinate variables affecting reading comprehension were vocabulary knowledge, text comprehension and listening comprehension. Based on these results, some discussion and suggestions were provided for teaching reading difficulties-at risk students.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.