Phonological and lexical encoding processes in beginning readers: Effects of age and word characteristics     

C. D. Porpodas  S. N. Pantelis  E. Hantziou 《Reading and writing》1990,2(3):197-208

The aim of this study was two-fold. First to find out whether the prelexical phonological route develops prior to the visual route or whether the direct visual route develops first in the process of learning to read Greek. Second, to see whether the subjects' chronological age deviation affects decisively the overall reading accuracy and the processes employed in word reading. For this an investigation was conducted involving two age groups of Primary-one class children regarded as normal readers and differing between them by 10 months. The subjects were tested in three word (and nonword) reading tasks in which psycholinguistic properties of words (such as grammatical class, imagery level, semantic content, regularity and frequency) had been manipulated. The main findings were: first that reading accuracy was not significantly affected by the main psycholinguistic properties of words. Second, that the chronological age factor is unlikely to influence decisively and consistently reading acquisition in the long term. Third, that Primary-one children although tending to use mainly phonological information in reading, nevertheless seem to have started making the transition towards the use of the direct visual route as well.Requests for reprints should be sent to Dr. C. D. Porpodas, Section of Psychology, Department of Education, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Patras, 26110 Patras, Greece.  相似文献   

Children’s orthographic representations in English and Greek     

Usha Goswami  Costas Porpodas  Sally Wheelwright 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》1997,12(3):273-292

Two experiments were conducted to compare the development of orthographic representations in children learning to read English and Greek. Nonsense words that either shared both orthography and phonology at the level of the rhyme with real words (comic-bomic), phonology only (comic-bommick), or neither (dilotaff) were created for each orthography. Experiment 1 compared children’s reading of bisyllabic and trisyllabic nonsense words likebomic vs.bommick, taffodil vs.tafoddyl, and found a significant facilitatory effect of orthographic rhyme familiarity for English only. Experiment 2 compared children’s reading of trisyllabic nonsense words that either shared rhyme phonology with real words (tafoddyl) or did not (dilotaff). Significant facilitation in reading accuracy was found for shared rhyme phonology in English, with a significant speed advantage in Greek. These results are interpreted in terms of the level of phonology that is represented in the orthographic recognition units being developed by children who are learning to read more and less transparent orthographies.  相似文献   

The Contribution of Educational Sciences to Primary Teacher Training in Greece     

Costas D. Porpodas 《欧洲师范教育杂志》1985,8(2):147-162

In view of the elevation of the primary teachers’ training in Greece to a university level, this paper reports on one aspect of those teachers’ training in the existing primary teachers training institutions, that of the curriculum structure.

The effectiveness of their training was investigated by means of a questionnaire, answered by a sample of 324 experienced primary teachers.

According to the results, the Greek primary teachers seriously question the structure and content of the curriculum in the primary teachers training institutions (the Pedagogical Academies), since it contributes to the training of a type of teacher whom neither they want nor the society needs. For an improved and more effective primary teachers’ training scheme they proposed the focusing of the curriculum on the educational sciences.  相似文献   

Patterns of phonological and memory processing in beginning readers and spellers of Greek     

Porpodas CD 《Journal of learning disabilities》1999,32(5):406-416

This study examined the patterns of reading and spelling performance of first-grade Greek children who either were facing difficulties in literacy acquisition or were normal achievers. In addition, we studied the relationship between obtained literacy development levels and the children's phonological awareness and ability to retain phonological information in short-term memory. The participants were tested in the reading of single letters, letter clusters, words, and nonwords, as well as in word and nonword spelling. Furthermore, their phonological processing knowledge was assessed via a battery of phonological awareness tasks and short-term memory phonetic-representation tasks. The main findings of the study were as follows: (a) Accurate decoding of Greek was achieved by almost every young child (attributed mainly to the nature of the Greek writing system); (b) the time the children needed to process a written item was the crucial index of their difficulty in literacy acquisition; (c) spelling was performed by deriving the orthographic form of a word on the basis of sound-spelling correspondence knowledge; (d) although the children with difficulties in literacy development had achieved a satisfactory performance in phonological processing, their performance was nevertheless significantly lower than that of the normal achievers; and (e) phonemic awareness and speech rate tasks were among the best predictors of learning to read and spell Greek words.  相似文献