Authors: YANG Y-F.; KUO H-H.

Source: Reading Psychology, Volume 24, Number 1, 1 January 2003 , pp. 87-103(17)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

Reading begins with the very early lexical processing, which is no less complex than the whole reading task. The purpose of the present study is to investigate how early lexical processing (word recognition) could influence reading. The results of this study reveal several facts. First of all, the reader does not necessarily rely on every letter in order to recognize a word; contexts do help the reader determine word patterns. Secondly, when being requested to memorize a passage, the less-proficient reader tends to remember the physical forms of words only, but the proficient reader tends to remember the meanings of the passage in addition to physical words. Thirdly, a reader s speed of word recognition influences the speed of meaning retrieval and comprehension. It was found that less-proficient readers could not finish the task of word recognition within time limits and their accuracy rates were quite low, whereas the proficient readers processed the physical words immediately and translated them into meanings quickly in order to memorize the whole passage.

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Touliu, Taiwan

Publication date: 2003-01-01

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