Relations of Vocabulary and Cognitive Skills With Reading Performance of North Korean Students in South Korean Schools.
Cognitive skills
Linguistic differences
North Korean children
Reading outcomes
Journal
Journal of psycholinguistic research
ISSN: 1573-6555
Titre abrégé: J Psycholinguist Res
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0333506
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Feb 2023
Feb 2023
Historique:
accepted:
10
02
2022
pubmed:
23
3
2022
medline:
24
3
2023
entrez:
22
3
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
We examined if North (n = 123) and South Korean (n = 123) children in Grades 3 to 8 studying in South Korea differ in their reading, vocabulary, and literacy-related cognitive skills, and whether language and literacy-related skills contribute to reading outcomes differently among North and South Korean children. The results showed that South Korean students performed better in syllable deletion, RAN-Letters, vocabulary, decoding fluency, and reading comprehension after controlling for age and SES. No differences were observed in phonological awareness, RAN-Digits, and visual processing tasks. A multigroup path analysis showed that phonological awareness and vocabulary were more strongly associated with decoding fluency for the South than the North Korean students, whereas the opposite was true for visual processing. The results suggest that South Korean vocabulary knowledge may be a significant factor in addressing the academic difficulties facing North Korean children in South Korean schools and that it is important to consider linguistic characteristics when examining the variations in reading skills and vocabulary knowledge of North Korean students in South Korean schools. These findings have implications for North Korean children's literacy instruction in South Korean schools.
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pubmed: 35316444
doi: 10.1007/s10936-022-09855-x
pii: 10.1007/s10936-022-09855-x
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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IM
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© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
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