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Phonologic Mediation Is Fundamental to Reading: Evidence from Beginning Readers

The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section APublished 1 August 1996
A.M.T. Bosman, Annette M.B. de Groot
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Abstract

1 Score s on a non -verbal (Stan dard Progre ssive M atric es; R aven , 1958) and a verbal (vocabu lary test of the RA K IT; Bleich rodt, D ren th, Zaal, & R esin g, 1984) intellig ence test were also assesse d.In ge neral no sign i® cant differences were foun d betwe en m ore and less advan ced re ade rs on these variable s.Scores on a sp ellin g test (M omm ers & Van Do ngen , 1986) w ere also available, an d the difference be tween m ore an d less advan ced readers were ge nerally sign i® can t on this test.This is m ainly due to a sign i® cant correla tion (r = .50) that exists between readin g and sp elling in ® rst grad e.

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