A 1997 conference paper reports, citing Sticht, a positive correlation between preschool oral language skills and later reading achievement¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · theoretical r1 · q1
Currency · newest study 1997 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person
Evidence quality · No study behind this claim is a peer-reviewed article with a DOI: it rests on an ERIC document (a report, conference paper or thesis). It is kept because 4 design pages cite it; treat it as a lead to check, not an established finding.

Subclaims¶

q1 i? There is a positive correlation between preschool and oral language skills and subsequent achievement in reading. → Neiburg 1997

Evidence¶

Neiburg 1997¶

Neiburg, Michael S. (1997). Following Native Language Acquisition. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (23rd, Hamamatsu, Japan, October 11, 1997). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED417613

q1 · i? · theoretical · r1

The article reports, citing Sticht's paper "Listening and Reading," that written language development draws on oral language competence and that "there is a positive correlation between preschool and oral language skills and subsequent achievement in reading." No coefficient is printed, so no magnitude is reported.

"He shows that there is a positive correlation between preschool and oral language skills and subsequent achievement in reading."

Studies bearing on this claim¶

Does a learner's oral language and vocabulary predict how well they come to read and understand texts? This table gathers the studies behind this claim and the 7 narrower claims that bear on it: 9 distinct studies (4 review, 2 theoretical, 2 associational, 1 causal), q1–q3, 0 of 9 with an effect size coded. One row per study, codes as each entry records them; no effect is averaged and no verdict is drawn. Built by scripts/synthesize_claim.py from eval/synthesis/; a row that looks wrong is fixed on the claim it comes from.

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Reading and Language — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
• Communication Skills — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes

Related Claims¶

• Joint Book Reading Predicts Literacy Success — related
• Listening proficiency transfers to other language skills, including reading and writing, in second language learners — related
• Sticht's Law holds that reading skill cannot exceed listening skill — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• The author of a 1997 conference paper reports finding no research supporting reverse transfer of skills from literacy to oral language — related
• Teachers' ratings on 16 English-readiness KEA items at kindergarten entry predicted Hispanic/Latino children's English literacy achievement almost 6 years later — related
• L2 oral language proficiency predicts reading comprehension more strongly than decoding skills — related
• Oral language measures of syntax, listening comprehension, and oral vocabulary do not predict which English learners will struggle with learning to read — reports the opposite
• Vocabulary is uniquely and positively related to word reading and spelling in kindergartners after accounting for phonological awareness, alphabet knowledge fluency, and letter writing automaticity — related