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Beginning to read in Turkish: A phonologically transparent orthography

Öney, Banu, Durgunoğlu, Aydin Yücesan·1997·Applied Psycholinguistics

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate early literacy acquisition in a phonologically transparent orthography with regular letter-sound correspondences. It was considered that Turkish, with its systematic phonological and orthographic structure, would make different demands on the beginning reader than the languages used in many of the previous studies of literacy acquisition. First grade children were assessed using tests of phonological awareness, letter recognition, word and pseudoword recognition, spelling, syntactic awareness, and listening comprehension at the beginning of the school year. The impact of these factors on the development of word recognition, spelling, and reading comprehension was examined. The results strongly suggest that a phonologically transparent orthography fosters the early development of word recognition skills, and that phonological awareness contributes to word recognition in the early stages of reading acquisition. Once the children's word recognition performance is high, listening comprehension ability distinguishes the different levels of reading comprehension among children. These patterns of results were interpreted as reflecting the phonological and orthographic characteristics of the Turkish language and orthography.

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Authors
Öney, B., & Durgunoğlu, A. Y.
Affiliations
  • Boğaziçi University (TR)
  • University of Minnesota, Duluth (US)
Corresponding author
Öney, Banu
Venue
Applied Psycholinguistics
Published
1997-01
Volume
18
Issue
1
Pages
1-15
ISSN
  • 0142-7164 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-1817
OpenAlex
W2110335717
Cited by
210
References
28
Citations by year
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FWCI
7.56
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
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Applied Psycholinguistics (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Second Language Acquisition and Learning
Keywords
early literacy acquisition, Turkish language, letter-sound correspondence, phonological awareness, word recognition, pseudoword recognition, spelling, listening comprehension, reading comprehension, first grade students, orthographic transparency

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