Anchoring in 4- to 6-Year-Old Children Relates to Predictors of Reading

Autor/inn/en	Banai, Karen; Yifat, Rachel
Titel	Anchoring in 4- to 6-Year-Old Children Relates to Predictors of Reading
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 112 (2012) 4, S.403-416 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0965
DOI	10.1016/j.jecp.2012.04.008
Schlagwörter	Phonology; Phonological Awareness; Short Term Memory; Reading Instruction; Reading Difficulties; Predictor Variables; Experiments; Experimental Psychology; Children; Reading Processes; Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education; Preschool Children; Child Psychology; Tests + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fonologie; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Leseunterricht; Reading difficulty; Leseschwierigkeit; Prädiktor; Erprobung; Experimentelle Psychologie; Child; Kind; Kinder; Leseprozess; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Children; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschule; Kinderpsychologie; Examination; Prüfung; Examen
Abstract	Previous studies suggest that anchoring, a short-term dynamic and implicit process that allows individuals to benefit from contextual information embedded in stimulus sequences, might be causally related to reading acquisition. Here we report findings from two experiments in which two previously untested predictions derived from this anchoring hypothesis were tested: (a) that anchoring facilitates rapid naming and phonological short-term memory in children prior to the onset of formal reading instruction and (b) that anchoring makes a unique contribution to performance in two early predictors of reading (letter knowledge and phonological awareness). In line with those predictions, naming times were faster and memory spans were longer under conditions that encouraged the use of anchoring processes than under conditions that afforded little anchoring. Furthermore, performance in the anchoring-affording condition predicted significant amounts of variance in phonological awareness and letter knowledge even after controlling for the contribution of the conditions that did not afford anchoring. Therefore, we suggest that anchoring might contribute to the development of reading-related processes during the preschool years independent of the development of specific reading-related skills such as phonological processing. (Contains 6 tables and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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