Year: 1987
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The ability to learn nevt/ reading vocabulary was assessed in nornlal and poor readers.Ten norrnal readers and ten children reading two or nlore \vords on a rnicro-con-fputer.One list -consisted of prlonetical1y-regular vJords wf"d le tri€ other 1ist included prionet ically-irregular words.The ---Idren were all approxirnately nine years of age an<j in tr}e normal range on l.~j.l~,.T. CUlture Fair Test of 'g'.A,fter being intrOiJUced to the to-beearned words, eacrl subiect oractised identi 1nq her words for-10 ~~I ~ ons of trlree trials each, over a period of five days.sual distractors ~vvere included in the oractice set to assess word-identification accuracv., ! .' :€cognition-rnenlory accuracy as well as word-identification speed.The results suggested that both nornlal and poor readers engage in visualfeature learning and lexical-association -learning wr,en acqui ng new reading vocabulary.However) poor readers appear to engage in less visualf'-'-:1 t urp 1e'~r'nir'\n n'-'r tr•l•d:-1 +h:-ri :"' u•"' rn""l:::i 1 ""•-'a• 1 pr'-.t:' '•.'s ,., 1 u .j • i i':j f'" t' ~t II cJ i i I u I i t= U _. ::J.As a result, establish fewer lexical-visual associations per trial.The resul suggested tn' at thl'{'"" n1a•y biD the '-;:.uc.e '-i f tho '"\ir ln~iJer wnrd-.;dpntl•fl• . . . . .:-
Author: S. I. Tapson
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2310831698