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Ricketts, Jessie; Bishop, Dorothy V. M.; Pimperton, Hannah; Nation, Kate – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2011
This study explores how children learn the meaning (semantics) and spelling patterns (orthography) of novel words encountered in story context. English-speaking children (N = 88) aged 7 to 8 years read 8 stories and each story contained 1 novel word repeated 4 times. Semantic cues were provided by the story context such that children could infer…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Children, Semantics, Spelling
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Nation, Kate; Snowling, Margaret J. – Child Development, 1998
Two studies examined individual differences in 7- to 10-year-olds' contextual facilitation. Findings indicated that poor readers showed more contextual facilitation than good readers but the relative context benefit was greater for good readers. Comprehension was a better predictor of contextual facilitation that decoding. Dyslexics showed greater…
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Context Effect, Decoding (Reading)