The oral–silent reading difference increases with reading experience, plausibly because a less extensive orthographic lexicon forces dyslexic readers to rely on phonological processing during silent reading¶
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q2 i? Combining this study with Gagliano et al. (2015), oral and silent reading diverge more with increasing reading experience, and the authors propose an orthographic-lexicon explanation for the smaller divergence in dyslexia. → Madelon van den Boer 2022
Evidence¶
Madelon van den Boer 2022¶
Madelon van den Boer, Loes Bazen, Elise de Bree. (2022). The Same yet Different: Oral and Silent Reading in Children and Adolescents with Dyslexia. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-022-09856-w
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Authors' interpretation in the General Discussion, combining their findings with Gagliano et al. (2015): students with dyslexia read less, yielding a less extensive orthographic lexicon, "thus hampering reading directly through the orthographic lexicon during silent reading" and increasing reliance on phonological processing.
"With increasing reading experience, oral and silent reading seem to diverge more. For individuals with dyslexia, who lag behind in reading experience, this difference appears smaller than for their peers with average to good reading abilities."
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Reading Fluency — outcome: instruction changes it
Related Claims¶
- Adolescents read silently faster than orally, and this oral–silent difference is smaller for adolescents with dyslexia than for typical readers — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- For children in Grades 3–5, with and without dyslexia, oral and silent text reading fluency do not differ — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- For children and adolescents with dyslexia, the silent reading deficit is as large as or larger than the oral reading deficit — related
- Efficiency in phonological and orthographic processing contributes significantly to individual differences in adult ESL reading measures — related
- Word reading efficiency and sentence comprehension show distinct behavioral subcomponent profiles: word reading correlates with phonological subcomponents, comprehension with morphological awareness and orthography-semantic mapping — related
- Children with dyslexia read texts significantly more slowly than typical readers in both oral and silent reading — related
- Oral and silent text reading fluency correlate strongly in children but only moderately in adolescents, and a standardized oral word reading test relates to silent reading differently by group — related
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The oral–silent reading difference increases with reading experience, plausibly because a less extensive orthographic lexicon forces dyslexic readers to rely on phonological processing during silent reading |
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The oral–silent reading difference increases with reading experience, plausibly because a less extensive orthographic lexicon forces dyslexic readers to rely on phonological processing during silent reading |
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