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dc.contributor.authorMalda, Maike
dc.contributor.authorNel, Carisma
dc.contributor.authorVan de Vijver, Fons J.R.
dc.date.accessioned2015-11-24T06:56:20Z
dc.date.available2015-11-24T06:56:20Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationMalda, M. et al. 2014. The road to reading for South African learners: the role of orthographic depth. Learning and individual differences. 30: 34-45. [http://www.journals.elsevier.com/learning-and-individual-differences/]en_US
dc.identifier.issn1041-6080
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/15234
dc.description.abstractThe study examined profiles of reading skills and cognitive skills for South African children fromschools that differed in opacity of medium of instruction. The sample included 122 third graders instructed in Afrikaans (transparent language), 109 in Setswana (transparent), and 127 in English (opaque). The link between cognitive skills (short-term memory and working memory) and reading comprehension was expected to be mediated by phonological awareness,word fluency, text fluency, and vocabulary.Multigroup invariance analyses revealed differences in strength of relations between cognitive skills and reading skills across mediums of instruction. For English, phonological awareness played a smaller and vocabulary a larger role compared to Afrikaans and Setswana, largely in line with theories on orthographic depth and reading; furthermore, predictors of reading comprehension showed weaker interrelations in Afrikaans and Setswana. Our study stresses the need to align reading instruction with orthography.en_US
dc.description.urihttp://www.journals.elsevier.com/learning-and-individual-differences/
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dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.subjectReadingen_US
dc.subjectmemoryen_US
dc.subjectortographic depthen_US
dc.subjectchilden_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.titleThe road to reading for South African learners: the role of orthographic depthen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.contributor.researchID10071377 - Nel, Carisma
dc.contributor.researchID13172735 - Van de Vijver, Alphonsius Josephus Rachel


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