The Role of Verbal Fluency as a Variable in Reading and Comprehension Skills in Bengali.
J Psycholinguist Res
; 53(1): 11, 2024 Feb 06.
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ABSTRACT
The study explored the role of verbal fluency in determining reading and comprehension skills in Bengali among 10-year old typically developing Bengali children. Robust correlations were found between semantic fluency and word reading (0.63) as well as semantic fluency and comprehension (0.70). Good correlation was found between letter fluency and comprehension (0.49), and, word reading and comprehension (0.62). The findings suggest that good word storing capacity and executive functions led to enhanced automaticity of retrieval and verbal fluency, which together with improved orthographic and phonological processing led to good word reading scores, contributing to lesser cognitive load thereby easing out the complex text comprehension task. Transcending narrow empirical base of reading theories derived from Western writing typologies delimited to orthographic depth and psycholinguistic grain size, the study contends that verbal fluency is another interesting variable determining the reading and comprehension skills in Bengali along with visuo-spatial complexity and complex phonology-orthography inconsistencies.
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Colección:
01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Lectura
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Comprensión
Límite:
Child
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Humans
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En
Revista:
J Psycholinguist Res
Año:
2024
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Article
País de afiliación:
India
Pais de publicación:
Estados Unidos