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- Title
The influence of speech perception, oral language ability, the home literacy environment, and pre-reading knowledge on the growth of phonological sensitivity: A one-year longitudinal investigation.
- Authors
Burgess, Stephen R.
- Abstract
Individual differences in phonological sensitivity are among the most powerful predictors of early word decoding ability and a deficit in phonological sensitivity is thought to be the primary stumbling block for those children who have difficulty learning to read. However, only recently have researchers begun to search for the potential causes and correlates in phonological sensitivity development. In the present one-year longitudinal study, the influences of speech perception, oral language ability, emergent literacy, and the home literacy environment (HLE) on the growth of phonological sensitivity were examined in a group of 115 four- and five-year-old children. When the variables were entered simultaneously into a multiple regression equation, emergent literacy, oral language, and the HLE contributed significant unique variance. However, when the autoregressor was controlled, only phonological sensitivity at Time 1 and HLE contributed significant unique variance to predicting growth in phonological sensitivity. Results are discussed in terms of their implications for the education of preschool as well as school-aged children.
- Subjects
CHILDREN &; the environment; GENERAL education; LITERACY; INDIVIDUAL differences; LONGITUDINAL method; AUDITORY perception
- Publication
Reading & Writing, 2002, Vol 15, Issue 7/8, p709
- ISSN
0922-4777
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1020954606695