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Cross-script transfer of word reading fluency in a mixed writing system : Evidence from a longitudinal study in Japanese
Inoue, Tomohiro Georgiou, George K. Imanaka, Hirofumi Oshiro, Takako Kitamura, Hiroyuki Maekawa, Hisao Parrila, Rauno
Inoue, Tomohiro
Georgiou, George K.
Imanaka, Hirofumi
Oshiro, Takako
Kitamura, Hiroyuki
Maekawa, Hisao
Parrila, Rauno
Abstract
We examined the cross-lagged relations between word reading fluency in the two orthographic systems of Japanese: phonetic (syllabic) Hiragana and morphographic Kanji. One hundred forty-two Japanese-speaking children were assessed on word reading fluency twice in Grade 1 (Times 1 and 2) and twice in Grade 2 (Times 3 and 4). Nonverbal IQ, vocabulary, phonological awareness, morphological awareness, and rapid automatized naming were also assessed in Time 1. Results of path analysis revealed that Time 1 Hiragana fluency predicted Time 2 Kanji fluency after controlling for the cognitive skills. Time 2 Hiragana fluency did not predict Time 3 Kanji fluency or vice versa after the autoregressor was controlled, but Hiragana and Kanji fluency were reciprocally related between Times 3 and 4. These findings provide evidence for a cross-script transfer of word reading fluency across the two contrastive orthographic systems, and the first evidence of fluency in a morphographic script predicting fluency development in a phonetic script within the same language.
Keywords
cross-script transfer, Japanese, word reading fluency, writing systems
Date
2019
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Journal article
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Applied Psycholinguistics
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Volume
40
Issue
2
Page Range
235-251
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Faculty of Education and Arts
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