Reading Comprehension in Kurdish-Persian Bilingual Students: Evaluation of the Simple View of Reading Kamari Elahea, Bavandpour Zeynabb aMA Gratuate Student of General Linguistics, Young Researchers and Elite Clube, Eyvan-e-Gharb Branch, Islamic Azad University, Eyvan, Iran bMA Gratuate Student of General Linguistics, Payam-e-Noor University, Tehran Jounoob, Tehran, Iran Online published on 6 August, 2014. Abstract This aim of this article is to investigate the relationship among decoding skills (D), reading comprehension (RC) and listening skills in Kurdish-Persian Bilingual students in order to evaluate Gough and Tunmers (1986) simple view of reading. According to this model Reading Comprehension = Decoding × Listening Comprehension. To this end, 20 male third grade students were asked to participate in this study. Through a word-nonword reading, multiple-choice listening test and multiple-choice cloze tests assessments, D, LC and RC were measured respectively. To find the relationship between these components, correlational analysis and linear regression analysis were used. The results supported the validity of the simple view of reading. Top Keywords The simple view of reading, Reading comprehension, Listening comprehension, Decoding, Bilingualism. Top |