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

Georgia Niolaki; Janet Vousden; Aris Terzopoulos; Laura Taylor; Shani Shepton; Jackie Masterson

doi:10.1111/1467-9817.12330

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

Georgia Niolaki, Janet Vousden, Aris Terzopoulos, Laura Taylor, Shani Shepton, Jackie Masterson

School of Psychological, Social and Behavioural Sciences

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	43
Pages (from-to)	577-596
Number of pages	20
Journal	Journal of Research in Reading
Volume	43
Issue number	4
Early online date	28 Sept 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9817.12330
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2020

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© 2020 The Authors. Journal of Research in Reading published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of United Kingdom Literacy Association

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Keywords

phonological ability (PA)
rapid automatised naming (RAN)
spelling
visual attention span processing (VAS)
visual short-term memory (VSTM)

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Education
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Psychology (miscellaneous)

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