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Orthographic learning during reading: examining the role of self-teaching.
Full Abstract
Thirty-four second grade children read target homophonic pseudowords (e.g., slurst/slirst) in the context of real stories in a test of the self-teaching theory of early reading acquisition. The degree of orthographic learning was assessed with three converging tasks:
homophonic choice, spelling, and target naming. Each of the tasks indicated that orthographic learning had taken place because processing of target homophones (e.g., yait) was superior to that of their homophonic controls (e.g., yate). Consistent with the self-teaching hypothesis, we obtained a substantial correlation (r=.52) between orthographic learning and the number of target homophones correctly decoded during story reading. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses indicated that neither RAN tasks nor general cognitive ability predicted variance in orthographic learning once the number of target homophones correctly decoded during story reading had been partialed out. In contrast, a measure of orthographic knowledge predicted variance in orthographic learning once the number of targets correctly decoded had been partialed. The development of orthographic knowledge appears to be not entirely parasitic on decoding ability. (c) 2002 Elsevier Science (USA).
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Author information
Author/s: Cunningham, Anne E (AE); Perry, Kathryn E (KE); Stanovich, Keith E (KE); Share, David L (DL);
Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. acunning(-atsign-)uclink .berkeley.edu
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Journal: Journal of experimental child psychology (J Exp Child Psychol), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Jul; vol 82 (issue 3) : pp 185-99
Dates: Created 2002/07/02; Completed 2002/10/10; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 12093106, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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