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Phonological awareness and rapid automatized naming as longitudinal predictors of reading in five alphabetic orthographies with varying degrees of consistency
Landerl, Karin Freudenthaler, H. Harald Heene, Moritz de Jong, Peter F. Desrochers, Alain Manolitsis, George Parrila, Rauno Georgiou, George K.
Landerl, Karin
Freudenthaler, H. Harald
Heene, Moritz
de Jong, Peter F.
Desrochers, Alain
Manolitsis, George
Parrila, Rauno
Georgiou, George K.
Abstract
Although phonological awareness (PA) and rapid automatized naming (RAN) are confirmed as early predictors of reading in a large number of orthographies, it is as yet unclear whether the predictive patterns are universal or language specific. This was examined in a longitudinal study across Grades 1 and 2 with 1,120 children acquiring one of five alphabetic orthographies with different degrees of orthographic complexity (English, French, German, Dutch, and Greek). Path analyses revealed that a universal model could not be confirmed. When we specified the best-fitting model separately for each language, RAN was a consistent predictor of reading fluency in all orthographies, whereas the association between PA and reading was complex and mostly interactive. We conclude that RAN taps into a language-universal cognitive mechanism that is involved in reading alphabetic orthographies (independent of complexity), whereas the PA–reading relationship depends on many factors like task characteristics, developmental status, and orthographic complexity.
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Date
2019
Type
Journal article
Journal
Scientific Studies of Reading
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Volume
23
Issue
3
Page Range
220-234
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ACU Department
Faculty of Education and Arts
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Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access
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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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