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Orthographic facilitation in oral vocabulary acquisition

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Ricketts, Jessie, Bishop, D. V. M. (Dorothy V. M.) and Nation, Kate (2009) Orthographic facilitation in oral vocabulary acquisition. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Vol.62 (No.10). pp. 1948-1966. doi:10.1080/17470210802696104

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Abstract

An experiment investigated whether exposure to orthography facilitates oral vocabulary learning. A total of 58 typically developing children aged 8-9 years were taught 12 nonwords. Children were trained to associate novel phonological forms with pictures of novel objects. Pictures were used as referents to represent novel word meanings. For half of the nonwords children were additionally exposed to orthography, although they were not alerted to its presence, nor were they instructed to use it. After this training phase a nonword-picture matching posttest was used to assess learning of nonword meaning, and a spelling posttest was used to assess learning of nonword orthography. Children showed robust learning for novel spelling patterns after incidental exposure to orthography. Further, we observed stronger learning for nonword-referent pairings trained with orthography. The degree of orthographic facilitation observed in posttests was related to children's reading levels, with more advanced readers showing more benefit from the presence of orthography.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: L Education > LB Theory and practice of education
P Language and Literature > PE English
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute of Education ( -2013)
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): English language -- Orthography and spelling, English language -- Vocabulary, Learning ability -- Testing, Child development, Reading comprehension -- Great Britain
Journal or Publication Title: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISSN: 1747-0218
Official Date: October 2009
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October 2009Published
Volume: Vol.62
Number: No.10
Page Range: pp. 1948-1966
DOI: 10.1080/17470210802696104
Status: Peer Reviewed
Access rights to Published version: Open Access

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