The Unique Role of Lexical Accessibility in Predicting Kindergarten Emergent Literacy

Overview

Journal Read Writ

Date 2016 Apr 14

PMID 27073294

Citations 4

Authors

Ludo Verhoeven

Jan van Leeuwe

Rosemarie Irausquin

Eliane Segers

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Abstract

The goal of this longitudinal study was to examine how lexical quality predicts the emergence of literacy abilities in 169 Dutch kindergarten children before formal reading instruction has started. At the beginning of the school year, a battery of precursor measures associated with lexical quality was related to the emergence of letter knowledge and word decoding. Confirmatory factor analysis evidenced five domains related to lexical quality, i.e., vocabulary, phonological coding, phonological awareness, lexical retrieval and phonological working memory. Structural equation modeling showed that the development of letter knowledge during the year could be predicted from children's phonological awareness and lexical retrieval, and the emergence of word decoding from their phonological awareness and letter knowledge. It is concluded that it is primarily the accessibility of phonological representations in the mental lexicon that predicts the emergence of literacy in kindergarten.

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