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  • 17 - Reading Fluency, Reading Rate, and Comprehension

  • from Part IV - Expanding Reading Comprehension Skills
  • William Grabe, Northern Arizona University, Junko Yamashita, Nagoya University, Japan
  • Book:
    Reading in a Second Language
    Published online:
    01 September 2022
    Print publication:
    08 September 2022, pp 403-418

  • Summary

    Chapter 17: Reading Fluency, Reading Rate, and Comprehension. This chapter reviews research on the role of reading fluency on reading comprehension in both L1 and L2 contexts. Reading fluency is a complex topic in itself, sometimes seen as a component skill contributing to comprehension and sometimes viewed as a reading goal in itself. Reading fluency is defined according to multiple criteria: automaticity, rate, accuracy, and prosodic phrasing. Research on fluency also involves fluent word reading and fluent text passage reading. As research has demonstrated over decades, word reading fluency contributes to early reading development, but text passage reading is a strong predictor of later reading comprehension. This appears to be true in both L1 and L2 contexts. The chapter reviews the major research findings and concludes with implications for instruction.