Journal
SCIENTIFIC STUDIES OF READING
Volume 26, Issue 1, Pages 1-20Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/10888438.2020.1850733
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- Institute of Education Sciences, US Department of Education [R305A120147, R305A180055]
- Eunice Kennedy Schriver National Institute of Child Health and HumanDevelopment [P50HD052120]
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This study examined the relation between reading prosody and reading comprehension through a systematic review and meta-analysis. The results showed a moderate relation between reading prosody and reading comprehension, with the strength of the relation varying depending on different prosody features.
We examined the relation between reading prosody and reading comprehension, using a systematic review and meta-analysis to estimate the strength of the relation and to understand whether the strength of the relation varies by prosody feature (adult-like contour, F0 sentence-final declination, grammatical pauses, ungrammatical pauses, prosody scale), students' developmental phase of reading skill as examined by grade level, and orthographic depth. A total of 35 studies (N = 9,349; Grades 1-9, 8 languages) met inclusion criteria. Overall a moderate relation (.51) was found between reading prosody and reading comprehension. Furthermore, the strength varied by prosody feature such that the relation was stronger for prosody rating scale than for pitch indicators such as adult-like contour and F0 sentence-final declination. However, grade and orthographic depth were not significant moderators. These results suggest that the relation between reading prosody and reading comprehension is not unitary and should consider specific aspects of reading prosody.
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