Orthographic facilitation of oral vocabulary acquisition in primary school children
Journal article
Salins, Andrea, Cupples, Linda, Leigh, Greg and Castles, Anne. (2023). Orthographic facilitation of oral vocabulary acquisition in primary school children. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 76(5), pp. 1045-1056. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221102916
Authors | Salins, Andrea, Cupples, Linda, Leigh, Greg and Castles, Anne |
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Abstract | Children’s oral vocabulary acquisition is an important aspect of language development that plays a crucial role in reading and literacy development and subsequent academic success. Therefore, it is important to identify and implement evidence-based effective strategies of vocabulary instruction for primary school children. Orthographic facilitation refers to the benefit afforded to word learning by incidentally presenting spellings when new words are introduced. This study aimed to replicate the orthographic facilitation effect in primary school (Grades 1–6) children and further assess whether children in different grades benefitted differently from the presence of orthography during spoken word learning. To do this, 91 children from Grades 1 to 6 were taught novel picture–word pairs with or without spellings. Word learning was assessed during and after training using behavioural and eye-tracking data from picture-naming and picture–word-matching (PWM) tasks. Irrespective of grade, all children experienced a significant orthographic facilitation effect during training. The post-training results were more task dependent with all grades showing a significant orthographic facilitation effect on the picture-naming task, and only Grades 1 to 4 showing a facilitation effect on the PWM task. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed. |
Keywords | Orthographic facilitation; vocabulary instruction; word learning ; primary school children; eye tracking ; oral vocabulary |
Year | 01 Jan 2023 |
Journal | Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology |
Journal citation | 76 (5), pp. 1045-1056 |
Publisher | Sage Publications Ltd. (UK) |
ISSN | 1747-0218 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221102916 |
PubMed ID | 35570698 |
Web address (URL) | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17470218221102916 |
Open access | Published as non-open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 1045-1056 |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 14 May 2022 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 03 May 2022 |
Deposited | 16 Aug 2024 |
Supplemental file | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Additional information | © Experimental Psychology Society 2022. |
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the International Macquarie Research Excellence Scholarship Programme scholarship (iMQRES) awarded to AS and partially supported by ARC Discovery Project DP200100311 to A. C., Macquarie University technical grant for mobile eye trackers. | |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/90ww6/orthographic-facilitation-of-oral-vocabulary-acquisition-in-primary-school-children
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