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Predictors of reading words and pseudowords in highly transparent orthography

Purpose: It is well-know that phonological awareness (PA), rapid automatized naming (RAN) and working memory (WM) are some of the best predictors of text reading, regardless of orthography. Less attention has been given to relationship between these predictors and reading of words and pseudowords in the period when child`s reading is nearly automatized. Accordingly, the aim of this study is to define the role of these three predictors (PA, RAN and WM) for reading of words and pseudwords in Croatian-speaking children who obtained three years of formal reading instruction. Method: 26 typically developing children (mean age=10 ; 06) participated in this study. Reading speed and accuracy were measured by lists of words and pseudowords. Phonological structure (number of syllables and syllable structure) of all items was controlled, besides controlling the word frequency in the word list according to the word frequency in the child language. PA was measured with three tasks: phoneme deletion, phoneme addition and spoonerism. Naming of colours was used as a measure of RAN and for WM standardised measure of digit span (WISC-IV-HR) and pseudoword repetition were used. Results and Conclusion: In order to define the predictive role of PA, WM and RAN for speed and accuracy of words and pseudowords reading the hierarchical linear regression was carried out. The analysis showed following: RAN and PA proved to be significant predictors of reading speed (46% of variance), while only RAN was significant predictor of reading accuracy (17%). For reading pseudowords only PA was significant predictor of reading speed (28, 5%) and accuracy (42%). It could be concluded that phonological awareness is the best predictor for reading of words and pseudowords in the period of reading automatization.

Reading ; phonological awareness ; rapid automatized naming

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