ABSTRACT

The present study examined the strategies used by Greek novice readers in the initial phases of reading acquisition. Fifty (50) children were assessed at four successive testing periods throughout 1st grade of Primary School. Thus, 21 boys (42%) and 29 girls (58%) participated in this study. Their mean age at the beginning of the study was 74.43 (s = 3.62) and 74.55 (s = 3.68) respectively. Reading performance measures included reading speed and accuracy scores for letters, words and nonwords. No evidence was found to support the development of a logographic process in learning to read Greek. Yet, the results of the present study indicate that the fast rate of letter knowledge acquisition promotes the development of an alphabetic approach in reading. Correlation analyses suggested that reading progress is depended upon the knowledge of 80% or more of the letters.

摘要

本研究检查了希腊新手读者在阅读习得的初始阶段使用的策略。五十 (50) 名儿童在整个小学一年级的四个连续测试阶段接受评估。因此，21 名男孩 (42%) 和 29 名女孩 (58%) 参与了这项研究。他们在研究开始时的平均年龄分别为 74.43 (s = 3.62) 和 74.55 (s = 3.68)。阅读成绩衡量指标包括字母、单词和非单词的阅读速度和准确度分数。没有发现任何证据支持学习阅读希腊语的语标过程的发展。然而，本研究的结果表明，字母知识的快速获取促进了字母顺序阅读方法的发展。