Oral Reading
Kristina Danielsson · Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research · 2003
The present study explores the relationship between error frequencies and correspondences between graphemes and phonemes of words in running texts read by 50 Swedish beginning readers. Following the ample cross-linguistic evidence of the impact of orthographic transparency, transparent words could be expected to be decoded more accurately than opaque words. Thus, error frequencies on words with different degrees of complexity in their grapheme- phoneme correspondences were compared in the study. The results reveal that error frequencies can only partly be explained by the degree of word transparency. Instead, contextual factors also seem to be relevant, something which previous studies by the author have indicated.