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WHEN NONSENSE IS BETTER THAN SENSE: NON‐LEXICAL ERRORS TO WORD READING TESTS
Author(s) -
THOMPSON G. BRIAN
Publication year - 1986
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.2044-8279.1986.tb02665.x
Subject(s) - psychology , nonsense , reading (process) , linguistics , mediation , lexical access , cognition , sociology , philosophy , social science , biochemistry , chemistry , neuroscience , gene
S ummary . Data are presented to examine alternative interpretations of errors of different lexical status which occur as responses to word reading tests. In a sample of 261 6 1/2‐year‐old children, the incidence of non‐lexical substitution errors was positively associated with level of reading progress, while that of lexical substitution errors was not. Beginner readers of high reading progress apparently made more attempts at phonological mediation and were more susceptible to breaking lexical constraints in their responses than children of low progress.