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THE CHANGING PATTERN OF READING ERRORS AND READING STYLE FROM 5 TO 11 YEARS OF AGE
Author(s) -
HARDING LEONORA M.,
BEECH JOHN R.,
SNEDDON WILLIAM
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1985.tb02605.x
Subject(s) - reading (process) , psychology , phonics , style (visual arts) , vocabulary , linguistics , similarity (geometry) , developmental psychology , artificial intelligence , computer science , literature , art , philosophy , image (mathematics)
S ummary . Reading errors were examined in 140 children ranging from 5 to 11 years in reading age. Intelligence, sex and social class were controlled within each reading age. Interjudge reliability on the ratings was quite high at 0.90, 0.95, 0.67 and 0.83 on graphophonic proximity, syntactic, semantic and phonemic similarity, respectively. The build‐up in sight vocabulary resulted in increases in graphophonic and phonemic similarity up to 8 years of reading age. There was also a change in reading style from a phonics to a more whole‐word style of reading. The more proficient readers appeared to process larger units of information which could account for systematic reductions in syntactic similarity. The reader at this level appears to be more eclectic and is capable of utilising all dimensions whenever necessary.