The performance of average readers on a battery of psycholinguistic tests

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dc.contributor.authorEser, Belinda
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-02T12:22:16Z
dc.date.available2017-06-02T12:22:16Z
dc.date.issued1991
dc.descriptionA research report submitted to the faculty of education of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education in Educational Psychology. Johannesburg 1991en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis study of the performance of a sample of average readers on a bax t any of psycholinguistic tests, was conducted in order to provide norms fat' these tests. The sample was drawn from two private schools in Johannesburg and was selected on the basis of age~appropriate performance on the Schonell Graded Word Reading Test. Scores on the Psycholinguistic Tests were expected to conform to predictions of an Information Processing Model which identifies two reading strategies: a direct strategy for reading, which depends on the recognition of the visual appearance of the whole word; and a second indirect or phonological strategy, which is dependent on the use of grapheme-phoneme correspondence. This functional model of adult language processing has been applied in the present study to the development of reading abi Ii ties in children. Research has shown that children use dual routes in reading as well, and that I while younger readers are more dependent on the indirect or phonological route, more proficient older readers rely predominantly on the lexical or direct route. It was expected therefore that different reading strategies would be used for different word types at different ages. As the means for the tests supplied by this study conform to p~edictions of the Dual Processing Model and support the pr oposition of developmental changes in reading strategies, these means may be used as an indication of normal processing strategies in children, thereby permitting the identification of deviant reading strategies in children of different ages.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianMT2017en_ZA
dc.format.extentOnline resource (122 leaves)
dc.identifier.citationEser, Belinda (1991) The performance of average readers on a battery of psycholinguistic tests, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg,<http://hdl.handle.net/10539/22778>
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/22778
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.subject.lcshReading--Ability testing
dc.subject.lcshPsycholinguistics--Ability testing
dc.subject.lcshReading disability
dc.titleThe performance of average readers on a battery of psycholinguistic testsen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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