The study examines language, memory and reading skills in children from two private schools in Victoria, British Columbia. Phonological processing and word-level decoding were significantly correlated, suggesting that familiarity with letters and their associated sounds are important for word-level reading. Phonological processing and decoding skill performance were significantly correlated with STM span and not WM span, suggesting that word-level decoding is not attentionally demanding for this sample of children. Decoding speed was inversely related to STM span; faster reading times and larger STM spans were highly predictive of one another. The children’s WM and STM task performance were relatively similar and may be reflective of efficient strategy use, such as word recognition, which reduces attention for processing in WM.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uvic.ca/oai:dspace.library.uvic.ca:1828/3189 |
| Date | 07 January 2011 |
| Creators | Best, Jacqueline Brooke |
| Contributors | Harrison, Gina Louise |
| Source Sets | University of Victoria |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | Available to the World Wide Web |
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