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Revisiting print exposure: exploring differential links to vocabulary, comprehension and reading rate
Author(s) -
MartinChang Sandra Lyn,
Gould Odette N.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of research in reading
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.077
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1467-9817
pISSN - 0141-0423
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9817.2008.00371.x
Subject(s) - reading (process) , psychology , reading comprehension , vocabulary , comprehension , variance (accounting) , test (biology) , literacy , cognitive psychology , linguistics , pedagogy , paleontology , philosophy , accounting , business , biology
Undergraduates ( N =171) completed a revised version of the Author Recognition Test (Stanovich & West, 1989). The resulting print exposure scores were divided into two dimensions: personal reading experience (primary print knowledge – PPK) and secondary print knowledge (SPK). Both PPK and SPK were correlated with print exposure, but not with each other. PPK correlated more strongly with reading‐related variables (vocabulary, comprehension and reading rate) than did SPK. Of particular importance, PPK accounted for variance in all three criterion variables after the effects of SPK had been factored out. Thus, these data support the notion that it is the act of reading over and above memory for reading‐related information that furthers the development of linguistic skill.