Profiles of learner readers and their early literacy skills and environmental predictors: a large-scale longitudinal study from preschool to grade 1

Frontiers in Education

Education

Xavier Thierry¹  Annie Magnan²  Jean Ecalle²  Emilie Dujardin³  Hélène Labat⁴ 

[1]Institut National d’études démographiques (Ined)/Unité mixte Ined/Inserm/EFS Elfe, Paris, France

[2]Laboratoire EMC Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs - MSH LSE (USR CNRS 2005) - Université Lyon 2, LabEx CORTEX ANR-11-LABX-0042, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France

[3]Laboratoire EMC Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs - MSH LSE (USR CNRS 2005) - Université Lyon 2, LabEx CORTEX ANR-11-LABX-0042, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France

[4]Association Agir Pour l’Ecole - Paris, Paris, France

[5]Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition et l’Apprentissage (CeRCA), Université de Poitiers, Université de Tours, CNRS, Poitiers, France

[6]Laboratoire Paragraphe, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, Cergy-Pontoise, France

关键词: reading development;    literacy abilities;    parents’ education level;    household income;    latent profile analysis;   

DOI  :  10.3389/feduc.2023.1189046

 received in 2023-03-18, accepted in 2023-05-10,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

As part of the French national cohort ELFE, a two-year longitudinal study was conducted and children’s literacy skills were assessed twice (N = 2,767), namely at the end of preschool (t1) and at the end of Grade 1 (t2). At t1, letter-name knowledge (LNK), phonological skills (PhoSk) and vocabulary were assessed and at t2, phonemic segmentation, word reading, listening and reading comprehension. Latent profile analyses conducted at t2 resulted in five profiles, ranging from good readers (48.8%), to average readers above the mean (16.2%), readers with very low phonological awareness skill (8.2%), poor readers with low reading comprehension skill (19.4%), and poor readers with general difficulties (7.4%). Two early literacy skills (LNK and PhoSk) and two environmental variables (parents’ educational level and household income) constituted good predictors of membership of a profile. However, home literacy practices also predicted membership of the good reader/poor reader profiles, albeit at a lower level.

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