Comparison of Word Recognition Speed and Strategies of Less Skilled and More Highly Skilled Readers
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Results indicated that more fluent readers were faster in word recognition, superior in ability to generate a target word given context and minimal cues from the target, and superior in awareness when a false recognition had been made.
Abstract
AN INVESTIGATION OF WORD RECOGNITION speed and word recognition strategies derived from partial model of word recognition was conducted. The partial model was based upon the hypotheses/test procedure. In Experiment 1, good and poor fourth grade readers were used, whereas in Experiment 2, college juniors and fourth graders were used. Results indicated that more fluent readers were faster in word recognition, superior in ability to generate a target word given context and minimal cues from the target, and superior in awareness when a false recognition had been made. An argument is put forth which states that superior word recognition processing strategies account for faster speed of word recognition. Subsequent experiments have indicated that these strategies are trainable and produce better readers.