Reading and writing are similar but not symmetric processes, with writing more demanding than reading¶
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q2 i? Writing is more demanding than reading for five reasons, including more complex phoneme-to-grapheme correspondence and the need for full retrieval rather than recognition. → Döhla D and Heim S 2016
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Döhla D and Heim S 2016¶
Döhla D and Heim S (2016). Developmental Dyslexia and Dysgraphia: What can We Learn from the One About the Other? Front. Psychol. 6:2045. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.02045
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The review summarizes Winkes (2014)'s five reasons why writing is more demanding, including that "Phoneme-to-grapheme-correspondence is much more complex than GPC" and that recall of orthographic representations is a higher function than recognition. Word reading and writing performance correlate highly (r = 0.68 to 0.86, Ehri, 2000).
"Winkes (2014) concludesthatreadingandwritingaresimilarbut not symmetric processes, and he confirms the metaphor of the “two sides of the coin- theory”"
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Reading and writing are similar but not symmetric processes, with writing more demanding than reading |
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Reading and writing are similar but not symmetric processes, with writing more demanding than reading |
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