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The effects of a spelling task on the subsequent performance of dyslexics
Author(s) -
Everatt J.,
Brannan P.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
dyslexia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.694
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1099-0909
pISSN - 1076-9242
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-0909(199602)2:1<22::aid-dys32>3.0.co;2-8
Subject(s) - spelling , dyslexia , task (project management) , psychology , cognitive psychology , anxiety , cognition , reading (process) , linguistics , neuroscience , philosophy , management , psychiatry , economics
This study investigates the effects of a prior spelling task on the performance of subsequent tasks by adult dyslexics and non‐dyslexics. The findings suggest that dyslexics' performance in a non‐verbal memory task and, to a lesser extent, a spatial reasoning task are detrimentally affected by the prior spelling task. The implications of these findings are discussed in terms of the anxiety felt and the lowering of self‐esteem produced by consistent failure in a task, the effects of spelling performance in examinations, and the problems of using pre‐tests in studies of differential performance between dyslexics and non‐dyslexics.