Training letter-to-sound connections: The efficacy of tracing |
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Authors: | John R Beech Helen Pedley and Ruth Barlow |
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Institution: | (1) Psychology Department, The University of Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK |
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Abstract: | There is evidence that training letter-to-sound connections can be important for future reading development. The present study
involved training letter-sound connections for two groups of prereaders equivalent in their IQ, knowledge of letters and age,
to examine the importance of tracing letters in order to learn such connections. All children were trained individually. Each
15-minute training session was divided into three parts. In one 5-minute part of each session, the “Letter” group pronounced
a letter shown on a computer and traced it on the screen with a pen, while the “Shape” group traced non-letter shapes. In
the second 5-minute part, the Shape group named letters and watched them being traced while the other group watched the program
tracing non-letter shapes. Thus both groups experienced the same letter-sound training and tracing activity, but only the
Letter group experienced both in conjunction with each other. In the final 5-minute session both training groups received
training in phonemic awareness training for 5 minutes. It was found that both groups improved significantly on a letter-to-sound
test relative to a control group not receiving such training. However, only the Shape group significantly improved in a sound-to-letter
test. It is concluded that tracing vertically on a computer screen does not appear to be advantageous for teaching letter-sound
connections for this age range and can even be a distraction for learning sound-letter connections. |
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