Predictors of single word spelling in English speaking children: a cross sectional study

Niolaki, Georgia Z. and Vousden, Janet and Terzopoulos, Aris and Taylor, Laura M. and Sephton, Shani and Masterson, Jackie (2020) Predictors of single word spelling in English speaking children: a cross sectional study. Journal of Research in Reading, 43 (4). pp. 577-596. ISSN 0141-0423

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Abstract

Background
The study aimed to explore to what extent variables associated with lexical and sublexical spelling processes predicted single word spelling ability and whether patterns of lexical and sublexical processes were different across ages.

Methods
Beginning (mean age 7 years, N = 144) and advanced (mean age 9 years, N = 114) English-speaking spellers completed tasks associated with sublexical processing (phonological ability and phonological short-term memory), lexical processing (visual short-term memory and visual attention span) and factors known to predict spelling (e.g., rapid automatised naming).

Results
Phonological ability, rapid automatised naming, visual short-term memory and visual attention span were significant predictors of spelling accuracy for beginning spellers, while for more advanced spellers, only visual attention span was a significant predictor.

Conclusions
The findings suggested that for beginning spellers, both lexical and sublexical processes are important for single word spelling, but with increasing literacy experience, lexically related variables are more important.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number:	10.1111/1467-9817.12330
Dates:	Date Event 3 September 2020 Accepted 28 September 2020 Published Online
Uncontrolled Keywords:	spelling, phonological ability (PA), rapid automatised naming (RAN), visual attention span processing (VAS), visual short-term memory (VSTM)
Subjects:	CAH04 - psychology > CAH04-01 - psychology > CAH04-01-01 - psychology (non-specific)
Divisions:	Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences > College of Psychology
Depositing User:	Gemma Tonks
Date Deposited:	04 Jul 2023 15:16
Last Modified:	11 Jun 2024 13:03
URI:	https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/14550

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