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How does rapid automatized naming influence orthographic knowledge?
Martinez, Dalia Georgiou, George K. Inoue, Tomohiro Falcón, Alberto Parrila, Rauno
Martinez, Dalia
Georgiou, George K.
Inoue, Tomohiro
Falcón, Alberto
Parrila, Rauno
Abstract
Rapid automatized naming (RAN) is a strong predictor of reading fluency across languages, and some researchers have attributed this to the contribution of RAN to the development of orthographic knowledge, which is predictive of reading fluency. However, to date, it remains unclear whether RAN (alphanumeric and nonalphanumeric) predicts orthographic knowledge (OK) and what skills may mediate their relation. To examine the RAN–OK relations, we assessed 114 Grade 3 Spanish-speaking Mexican children (58 girls; Mage = 7.9 years, SD = 0.3) on RAN (objects and digits), orthographic knowledge (lexical and sublexical; accuracy and response time), speed of processing, multi-element processing, phonemic awareness, and reading fluency. Path analyses showed first that, OK (both lexical and sublexical) partly mediated the effects of RAN on reading fluency. Second, multiple mediation analyses showed an indirect effect of both RAN tasks on lexical and sublexical OK through phonological awareness. In view of Ehri’s amalgamation hypothesis and Share’s self-teaching hypothesis, our findings suggest that RAN may reflect, in part, the speed with which the phonological representations of letters are accessed and retrieved, which subsequently influences how quickly orthographic representations can be formed and accessed.
Keywords
orthographic knowledge (OK), rapid automatized naming (RAN), reading fluency, phonemic awareness, Spanish, multi-element processing
Date
2021
Type
Journal article
Journal
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
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Volume
204
Issue
Page Range
1-14
Article Number
Article 05064
ACU Department
Faculty of Education and Arts
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