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Syntactic awareness and reading acquisition
Author(s) -
Tunmer William E.,
Nesdale Andrew R.,
Wright A. Douglas
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
british journal of developmental psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.062
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 2044-835X
pISSN - 0261-510X
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-835x.1987.tb01038.x
Subject(s) - fluency , psychology , reading (process) , reading comprehension , comprehension , task (project management) , cognitive psychology , phonological awareness , verbal fluency test , developmental psychology , linguistics , cognition , neuropsychology , philosophy , mathematics education , management , neuroscience , economics
Although previous studies have demonstrated that syntactic awareness is related to beginning reading achievement, the direction of causation remains a matter of dispute. Our study employed a reading level design in which good, younger readers were matched with poor, older readers on four measures of reading ability (real word recognition, pseudo‐word naming, reading fluency, and reading comprehension) and verbal intelligence. It was found that the good, younger readers scored significantly better than the poor, older readers on two measures of syntactic awareness, one an oral cloze task and the other an oral correction task. The findings suggest that the older, poor readers were developmentally delayed in syntactic awareness and that this delay may have retarded reading development.