Jessie Ricketts|Dorothy V. M. Bishop|Kate Nation
Orthographic Facilitation in Oral Vocabulary Acquisition
University of Oxford|University of Oxford|University of Oxford
experiment investigated whether exposure orthography facilitates oral vocabulary learning total 58 typically developing children aged 89 years taught 12 nonwords children trained associate novel phonological forms pictures novel objects pictures used referents represent novel word meanings half nonwords children additionally exposed orthography although alerted presence instructed use training phase nonwordpicture matching posttest used assess learning nonword meaning spelling posttest used assess learning nonword orthography children showed robust learning novel spelling patterns incidental exposure orthography observed stronger learning nonwordreferent pairings trained orthography degree orthographic facilitation observed posttests related childrens reading levels advanced readers showing benefit presence orthography