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Reading Strategies and the development of Reading Skills of primary school pupils in the Czech Republic

NAJVAROVÁ, Veronika and Petr NAJVAR

Basic information

Original name

Reading Strategies and the development of Reading Skills of primary school pupils in the Czech Republic

Name in Czech

Čtenářské strategie a čtenářské dovednosti žáků 1.stupně ZŠ v ČR

Authors

NAJVAROVÁ, Veronika (203 Czech Republic, guarantor) and Petr NAJVAR (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

první. Berlín, Book of Abstracts, 2007

Publisher

DGLS

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Audiovizuální tvorba

Field of Study

50300 5.3 Education

Country of publisher

Germany

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14410/07:00022456

Organization unit

Faculty of Education

ISBN

978-3-9809663-6-8

Keywords in English

reading strategies; reading skills; primary school

Tags

International impact
Změněno: 12/12/2007 12:55, Mgr. Veronika Najvarová, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

In this paper, the results of an empirical research that was carried out in the 2005 and 2006 are presented. The research was inspired by the findings of the PIRLS international research project in which Czech pupil failed to meet expectations. We tested the reading skills of pupils (279 pupil in 7 schools) in the final year of primary education (grade 5) in the Czech Republic. Czech teachers traditionally tend to concentrate mainly on the technical aspects of teaching reading, giving the functional aspects less attention. This should be changed by the basic school reform that is currently taking place in Czech schools. This research project combined qualitative and qualitative research methodologies. In a questionnaire, pupils were asked to answer questions concerning their family and school backgrounds, as well as attitudes towards reading. Using a test, their reading skills were examined. The fact that a PIRLS text was used in the test will make it possible to compare the results of Czech pupil with those of pupils from other European countries. Based on these quantitative results, those pupils were selected that achieved very high or very low scores in the reading skills test. These students were further tested and interviews were conducted with them. These interviews and further results allow analyses of those reading strategies that characterise and are used by good readers.

In Czech

V příspěvku popisujeme průběh a výsledky výzkumu, který proběhl v roce 2005/6. Výzkum navazuje na výsledky mezinárodního výzkumu PIRLS. Byly testovány čtenářské dovednosti žáků (279 žáků ze 7 škol) v posledním roce docházky na prvním stupni. Ve výzkumu byla použita kombinace metod kvantitativního a kvalitativního přístupu. Bylo využito žákovského dotazníku a testu čtenářských dovedností. Na základě výsledků těchto metod byli vybráni žáci pro další testování.

Links

LC06046, research and development project
Name: Centrum základního výzkumu školního vzdělávání (Acronym: RECES)
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Research Centre on Schooling