ERIC Number: EJ1212526
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-1088-8438
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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.
Scientific Studies of Reading, v23 n3 p220-234 2019
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.
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Naming, Reading Fluency, Predictor Variables, Alphabets, Orthographic Symbols, Beginning Reading, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 2, English, French, German, Indo European Languages, Greek, Language Universals, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Early Childhood Education; Grade 1; Primary Education; Grade 2
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Austria; Greece; Canada; Germany; Netherlands
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