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Developing Normal Reading Skills: Aspects of the Visual Processes Underlying Word Recognition

Aghababian, Valérie, Nazir, Tatjana A.·2000·Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
DOI 10.1006/jecp.1999.2540
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Visual word recognition performance of first graders (mean age: 6.6 years) through fifth graders (mean age: 10.8 years) was investigated using an experimental technique that is known to elicit the "viewing position effect" in skilled readers. The results showed that this effect, which consists of a systematic variation of performance as a function of fixation position within words, emerged early at the end of the 1st year of reading instruction. Visual field asymmetries in recognizing individual letters in words were also observed starting from first grade. Effects of word familiarity were obtained as early as in second grade. In contrast to skilled readers, children showed a marked word-length effect, which persisted through the first 5 years of instruction. No other qualitative differences between beginning and skilled readers were apparent. Hence, the basics of reading skills, as measured by the present technique, seem to be attained very early during acquisition. Further experience mainly reduces the time a reader needs to extract visual information from print.

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  1. Aghababian, V. 1998, Acquisition de la lecture: Aspects développementaux et neuropsychologiques. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Faculté des Sciences de Luminy, Marseille, France.
  2. Grimes, M. 1989, Where first grade children look in words during reading. Unpublished master's thesis, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
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Authors
Aghababian, V., & Nazir, T. A.
Affiliations
  • Hôpital de la Timone (FR)
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
ORCID
Nazir, Tatjana A.
Venue
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2000-06
Volume
76
Issue
2
Pages
123-150
ISSN
0022-0965 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1006/jecp.1999.2540
OpenAlex
W2154415882
Cited by
190
References
70
Citations by year
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FWCI
7.66
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Second Language Acquisition and Learning
Keywords
visual word recognition, reading acquisition, fixation position, visual field asymmetry, word familiarity, word length effect, beginning readers, skilled readers, reading instruction
MeSH terms
Attention, Child, Child Development, Female, Humans, Male, Orientation, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Reading, Mental Recall

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