Relative Ease in Creating Detailed Orthographic Representations Contrasted with Severe Difficulties to Maintain Them in Long-term Memory Among Dyslexic Children
Binamé, Florence; Poncelet, Martine; Danzio, Sophie
2015 • In Dyslexia: the Journal of the British Dyslexia Association, 21 (4), p. 361-370
[en] Most research into orthographic learning abilities has been conducted in English with typically
developing children using reading-based tasks. In the present study, we examined the
abilities of French-speaking children with dyslexia to create novel orthographic representations
for subsequent use in spelling and to maintain them in long-term memory. Their performance
was compared with that of chronological age (CA)-matched and reading age
(RA)-matched control children. We used an experimental task designed to provide optimal
learning conditions (i.e. 10 spelling practice trials) ensuring the short-term acquisition of the
spelling of the target orthographic word forms. After a 1-week delay, the long-term retention
of the targets was assessed by a spelling post-test. Analysis of the results revealed that,
in the short term, children with dyslexia learned the novel orthographic word forms well,
only differing from both CA and RA controls on the initial decoding of the targets and from
CA controls on the first two practice trials. In contrast, a dramatic drop was observed in
their long-term retention relative to CA and RA controls. These results support the
suggestion of the self-teaching hypothesis (Share, 1995) that initial errors in the decoding
and spelling of unfamiliar words may hinder the establishment of fully specified novel
orthographic representations.
Disciplines :
Theoretical & cognitive psychology
Author, co-author :
Binamé, Florence ; Université de Liège > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement > Neuropsychologie du langage et des apprentissages
Poncelet, Martine ; Université de Liège > Département de Logopédie > Neuropsychologie du langage et des apprentissages
Other collaborator :
Danzio, Sophie; Université de Liège - ULiège
Language :
English
Title :
Relative Ease in Creating Detailed Orthographic Representations Contrasted with Severe Difficulties to Maintain Them in Long-term Memory Among Dyslexic Children
Publication date :
November 2015
Journal title :
Dyslexia: the Journal of the British Dyslexia Association
ISSN :
1076-9242
eISSN :
1099-0909
Publisher :
John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, United States - New Jersey
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