Avkodning : En kunskapsöversikt om elevers avkodning och dess implikationer för läsförståelse

Sammanfattning: This knowledge overview aims to examine the importance of decoding for students learning how to read and if it can be used as a tool to measure approximate future development in reading comprehension. The study aims to answer the questions “What does current research say about decoding and its implications for monolingual students and their future reading comprehension?” and “What tests are used by researchers to measure students decoding, reading comprehension and fluency”. Reading comprehension is explained as an umbrella term for several smaller groups. Mainly decoding, phonological awareness and language comprehension.  In this overview several scientific studies about decoding and its potential implications will be analyzed and compared with each other and prior research. This research was collected through the database ERIC (EBSCO) with key words with the purpose of finding scientific papers pertaining to the subject in question.  These studies examine students' current decoding abilities to try to distinguish what their reading comprehension levels will be in the future. These results are then followed up with reading comprehension tests to see if the approximations were correct.  The results indicate that the majority of researchers agree that decoding is a good way of estimating students' future performance and growth in reading comprehension. These results lay the foundation for further research that will examine three things: What is the best way to teach kids decoding in order to help with future reading, How do bi- and multilingual students feel about the Swedish subject in schools and how are students with dyslexia affected by the current strategy used to teach them to read.