Adult illiterates significantly outperform pre-reading children on grapheme knowledge and on writing-speech correspondence¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2009 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2014: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q3 i? Post hoc analyses revealed statistically significant differences between children and illiterate adults for graphemes and for writing-speech correspondence (p < 0.01). → Kurvers 2009

Evidence¶

Kurvers 2009¶

Kurvers, J., Van Hout, R., & Vallen, T. (2009). Print awareness of adult illiterates: a comparison with young pre-readers and low-educated adult readers. Read Writ 22, 863-887. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-008-9129-7

q3 · i? · associational · r2

Tukey HSD pairwise comparisons following one-way ANOVA on the six print-awareness tasks. Illiterate adults scored higher on graphemes (M 19.76 vs 4.91) and correspondence (M 5.00 vs 2.88) per Table 4.

"Post hoc analyses revealed statistically significant differences between children and illiterate adults for graphemes and for writing-speech correspondence ( p\0.01)."

Discussion¶

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