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Rapid automatic naming predicts more than sublexical fluency: Evidence from English-French bilinguals

Savage, R; McBreen, M; Genesee, F; Erdos, C; Haigh, C; Nair, A; (2018) Rapid automatic naming predicts more than sublexical fluency: Evidence from English-French bilinguals. Learning and Individual Differences , 62 pp. 153-163. 10.1016/j.lindif.2018.02.001. Green open access

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Abstract

Rapid Automatized Naming is an important predictor of reading fluency. Whether Rapid Automatized Naming measures abstract sublexical correspondence fluency (Theory A) or word-specific fluency (Theory B) is unresolved. English, and to a lesser extent, French orthographies are opaque for reading. Thus, if Rapid Automatized Naming predicts word reading fluency after controlling for within-language pseudoword decoding fluency, in typical English-French bilingual students, theory B is supported over theory A. Hierarchical regression analyses with 76 typical English-French bilingual students revealed that kindergarten Rapid Automatized Naming predicted English word and French word reading fluency in Grade 6 and sometimes in Grade 3 after within-language pseudoword reading fluency was controlled, supporting theory B. However, Rapid Automatized Naming consistently predicted French word and pseudoword reading, supporting theory A. We argue that Rapid Automatized Naming indexes resources for learning both the lexical features of written words and orthography-to-phonology correspondences in opaque orthographies among bilingual students.

Type: Article
Title: Rapid automatic naming predicts more than sublexical fluency: Evidence from English-French bilinguals
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2018.02.001
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2018.02.001
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Rapid Automatized Naming, Reading, Orthographic depth, Consistency, Bilingualism
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Psychology and Human Development
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10046376
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