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Spring, Carl – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1978
Undergraduates learned to read words spelled with novel letters under phonics or whole-word conditions through several overlearning trials, and vocalization latency of word recognition responses was measured. Whole-word instruction resulted in word recognition mechanisms similar to fully automated mechanisms, but phonics instruction did not.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Phonics, Reaction Time, Reading Instruction