A cross-linguistic, longitudinal study of the foundations of decoding and reading comprehension ability
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Caralovas, Marketa, Lervåg, Arne, Mikulajova, Marina, Defior, Sylvia, Seidlová-Málková, Gabriela and Hulme, Charles. (2019). A cross-linguistic, longitudinal study of the foundations of decoding and reading comprehension ability. Scientific Studies of Reading. 23(5), pp. 386 - 402. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2019.1580284
Authors | Caralovas, Marketa, Lervåg, Arne, Mikulajova, Marina, Defior, Sylvia, Seidlová-Málková, Gabriela and Hulme, Charles |
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Abstract | The present study investigated the moderating role of orthographic consistency on the development of reading comprehension in four language groups (English, n = 179; Spanish, n = 188; Czech, n = 135; Slovak, n = 194) from kindergarten to Grade 2. In all languages, early variations in phoneme awareness/letter knowledge, rapid automatised naming, and emerging decoding skills, but not oral language, predicted variations in decoding skills at the end of Grade 1; these in turn predicted reading comprehension in Grade 2. For the three consistent orthographies (Spanish, Slovak, and Czech), kindergarten language skills were another significant predictor of Grade 2 reading comprehension. This effect was absent in the English sample, where variations in decoding skills were a more powerful predictor. These results provide the first longitudinal evidence for effects of orthographic consistency on the development of reading comprehension and provide support for the simple view of reading. |
Year | 2019 |
Journal | Scientific Studies of Reading |
Journal citation | 23 (5), pp. 386 - 402 |
Publisher | Routledge |
ISSN | 1088-8438 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2019.1580284 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85062985890 |
Page range | 386 - 402 |
Research Group | Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education (ILSTE) |
Publisher's version | File Access Level Controlled |
Place of publication | United States of America |
Editors | K. Landerl |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/85264/a-cross-linguistic-longitudinal-study-of-the-foundations-of-decoding-and-reading-comprehension-ability
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