Syntactic awareness and reading ability: is there any evidence for a special relationship?

Cain, Kate (2007) Syntactic awareness and reading ability: is there any evidence for a special relationship? Applied Psycholinguistics, 28 (4). pp. 679-694. ISSN 1469-1817

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Abstract

Syntactic awareness has been linked to word reading and reading comprehension (Tunmer & Bowey, 1984). The predictive power of two syntactic awareness tasks (grammatical correction, word-order correction) for both aspects of reading was explored in eight- and ten-year-olds. The relative contributions of vocabulary, grammatical knowledge, and memory to each were assessed. After vocabulary, memory explained variance on the word-order correction task; in contrast grammatical knowledge explained performance on the grammatical correction task. The relation between syntactic awareness and reading comprehension was mediated by vocabulary, grammatical knowledge, and memory; in contrast, word reading and syntactic awareness shared unique variance not explained by these controls. The implications for how we measure syntactic awareness and its relation with reading ability are discussed.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Applied Psycholinguistics
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? syntactic awarenessgrammatical knowledgeworking memoryvocabularyreading comprehensionlinguistics and languagelanguage and linguisticsgeneral psychologyexperimental and cognitive psychologypsychology(all)bf psychology ??
ID Code:
847
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Deposited On:
14 Dec 2007 15:00
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Yes
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Published
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