Oakhill, Jane and Kyle, Fiona (2000) The relation between phonological awareness and working memory. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 75 (2). pp. 152-164. ISSN 0022-0965

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Abstract

Previous research has failed to show a relation between children's working memory and performance on the phonological sound categorization task (M. J. Snowling, C. Hulme, A. Smith, & J. Thomas, 1994). However, the test used to assess working memory in that experiment was more comparable to a short-term memory task, which assesses storage capacity, than to a working memory task, which has both storage and processing components. In the present study, we compared the predictive power of both types of memory tasks on 2 measures of phonological awareness, the sound categorization task and a phoneme deletion task, in 7- and 8-year-olds (mean age = 8 years 1 month). The children's reading ability was also assessed. Fixed-order multiple-regression analyses showed that the sound categorization task has a higher working memory demand than the phoneme deletion task: Working memory predicted independent variance in performance only on the sound categorization task. The short-term memory task did not account for significant independent variance in performance on either of the measures of phonological awareness.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Psychology > Psychology
Depositing User:	Jane Oakhill
Date Deposited:	06 Feb 2012 15:34
Last Modified:	14 Jun 2012 10:04
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/13306

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