The Relationship between Grade Nine Boys’ and Girls’ Oral Reading Fluency and Their Reading Comprehension Ability

Abstract Many researches have been conducted home and abroad to investigate the relationship between students’ oral reading fluency and their reading comprehension ability。 This relationship has been confirmed by a lot of researches。 However, gender differences haven’t been taken into consideration。 Since oral reading fluency can help students improve their reading comprehension to some extent, it is necessary to look at the correlation in boys and girls respectively in order to provide gender-based suggestions。 The aim of this study is to figure out whether the degree of correlation in boys and girls are the same or not。 73031

The participants, with similar level of the mastery of English, come from 5 different classes, with 4 boys and 4 girls in each class。 Provided with the reading passages, they are supposed to finish the tasks of oral reading recording and reading comprehension following each passage。 After five days, all the data have been collected and analyzed。 

The results show that girls have a closer relationship between their oral reading fluency and reading comprehension ability than boys。 Based on the main finding, some suggestions are put forward for middle school students to improve their reading comprehension ability。 

Keywords: relationship; oral reading fluency; reading comprehension ability; gender differences

初三男女生口头阅读流畅度与阅读理解能力之间的关系 

摘  要对于学生的口头阅读流畅度和阅读理解能力之间的关系，国内外很多学者都对此进行了大量的研究，从而证实了这两者之间关系的存在。然而，大部分学者都没有把性别差异考虑进去。因为学生的口头阅读流畅度可以在一定程度上帮助他们提高阅读理解能力，因此，对男女生之间的这种关系进行单独的研究显得尤为重要。在此基础上，再有针对性地对男女生提出不同的建议。此次研究的目的在于探究男女生在这两者之间的关系上，相关度是否一致。

此次研究共有40名初三学生参与，他们来自5个不同的班级，平均每个班级有4名女生和4名男生。同时，他们的英语水平都差不多。通过所给的阅读材料，他们先要把自己的口头阅读录下来，然后再完成相关的阅读理解题。5天之后，所有的数据都得到了收集和分析。

实验结果显示，在口头阅读流畅度和阅读理解能力这两者关系上，女生之间的相关度更大。在这个结论的基础上，对初中男女生分别提出了几点建议，其目的在于提高初中生的阅读理解能力。

毕业论文关键词：关系；口头阅读流畅度；阅读理解能力；性别差异 

Contents

1。 Introduction 1

2。 Literature Review 2

2。1 The Definition and Importance of Reading 2

2。2 Researches on the Relationship between Students’Oral Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension Ability 3

2。3 Studies on the Differences between Boys and Girls in terms of Learning English 4

3。 Methodology 5

3。1 Research Questions 5

3。2 Participants 5

3。3 Instruments and Procedures 5

3。3。1 The Analysis of Oral Reading Fluency 5

3。3。2 The Analysis of Reading Comprehension 6