Reading in Czech. Part I: Tests of reading in a phonetically highly consistent spelling system
✍ Scribed by Z. Matějček
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 76 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1076-9242
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✦ Synopsis
The grapheme-phoneme consistency makes reading in Czech relatively easy. As soon as a Czech child learns to pronounce correctly one letter after another, he/she can read almost any word and any text. Reading tests in Czech are not just lists of words but consist of consecutive texts graded by difficulty of vocabulary and content. Speed of reading appears to be the best individual indicator of development of reading in an individual child. It correlates highly with other indicators of reading efficiency, except number of errors. Czech normal readers make on average only very few mistakes in meaningful texts. Analysis of errors takes into account their position, quality and meaning.