Can Solving of Wordchains Be Explained by Phonological Skills Alone?

Autor/inn/en	Asbjornsen, Arve E.; Obrzut, John E.; Eikeland, Ole-Johan; Manger, Terje
Titel	Can Solving of Wordchains Be Explained by Phonological Skills Alone?
Quelle	In: Dyslexia, 16 (2010) 1, S.24-35 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1076-9242
Schlagwörter	Rural Schools; Short Term Memory; Word Recognition; Multiple Regression Analysis; Foreign Countries; Verbal Ability; Phonology; Junior High School Students; Dyslexia; Models; Reading Processes; Norway + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Worterkennung; Ausland; Mündliche Leistung; Fonologie; Junior High Schools; Student; Students; Sekundarstufe I; Schüler; Schülerin; Dyslexics; Legasthenie; Lese-Rechtschreib-Schwäche; Analogiemodell; Leseprozess; Norwegen
Abstract	The present study focussed on the determinants for effective solving of the Wordchains Test (WCT) in a normative sample of Norwegian junior high-school students. Forty voluntary participants from a rural school district in Western Norway completed the WCT along with tests of general intellectual capacity, single word and non-word reading, auditory working memory, and visual scanning. All measures correlated significantly with each other except for general non-verbal abilities were not correlated with visual scanning. A stepwise multiple regression analysis, using the WCT as the dependent variable, yielded a model that included single word reading, letter recognition, and working memory as independent variables. This model accounted for 75% of the variance in WCT performance. This finding suggests that phonological skills only have an indirect influence on WCT performance. Thus, the core deficit in dyslexia, i.e. impaired phonological skills, may be related to the development of word recognition skills, but have no direct effect on the WCT performance in a normative sample. (Contains 5 tables.) (As Provided).
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