Ludo Verhoeven|Jan van Leeuwe|Rosemarie S. Irausquin|Eliane Segers
The unique role of lexical accessibility in predicting kindergarten emergent literacy
Radboud University Nijmegen|Radboud University Nijmegen|Radboud University Nijmegen|Radboud University Nijmegen
goal longitudinal study examine lexical quality predicts emergence literacy abilities 169 dutch kindergarten children formal reading instruction started beginning school year battery precursor measures associated lexical quality related emergence letter knowledge word decoding confirmatory factor analysis evidenced five domains related lexical quality ie vocabulary phonological coding phonological awareness lexical retrieval phonological working memory structural equation modeling showed development letter knowledge year could predicted childrens phonological awareness lexical retrieval emergence word decoding phonological awareness letter knowledge concluded primarily accessibility phonological representations mental lexicon predicts emergence literacy kindergarten