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Auditory and visual factors related to spelling success
Author(s) -
Lesiak Judi,
Lesiak Walter J.,
Kirchheimer Jay
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6807(197910)16:4<491::aid-pits2310160406>3.0.co;2-e
Subject(s) - spelling , psychology , cognitive psychology , visual memory , visual perception , echoic memory , audiology , cognition , perception , linguistics , neuroscience , medicine , philosophy
Compared good and poor spellers at the third‐ and sixth‐grade levels on seven tasks that measured visual and auditory discrimination, memory, analysis and synthesis skills. The results indicated that five tasks discriminated between good and poor spellers at the third‐grade level: tasks requiring visual discrimination and visual memory of words; auditory discrimination, memory, analysis and synthesis; and auditory‐visual integration. Two tasks discriminated between good and poor spellers at the sixth‐grade level: tasks requiring auditory discrimination, memory, analysis and synthesis; and auditory‐visual integration. Memory for words and sentences did not discriminate between good and poor spellers at either grade level.