Oral Language Production and Reading Achievement Among Selected Students

Since only limited evidence exists to identify the particular aspects of oral language production that are most closely associated with differences in reading performance, this study was adapted to a design that controlled for age, sex, and intelligence, for the purposes of exploring this relation among two groups of Amerindian children. The Thorndike-Lorge Intelligence Test and the Metropolitan Achievement Test were administered to 62 Ss. The Ss were divided into two groups, based on the reading comprehension scores, of above and below average reading abilities. An oral language sample of each S was tape recorded and analyzed, resulting in no significant sex differences for language production. No significant relation between intelligence and reading achievment in second grade boys was found. V. Tiberia