RT Journal Article
T1 Predictors of word writing in Spanish and Arabic among 6- and 7-year-old children
A1 González-Valenzuela, María José
A1 Lopez-Montiel, Dolores
A1 Chebaani, Fatma
A1 Cobos-Cali, Marta
A1 Piedra-Martínez, Elisa
A1 Martín-Ruiz, Isaías
K1 Escritura - Estudio y enseñanza
AB This study analyses the impact of certain cognitive processes on the writing of words in languages with different orthographic consistency (Spanish and Arabic) in the first and second years of Primary Education. One hundred twenty-eight schoolchildren from Ecuador and 109 from Algiers participated in this study. All the participants were aged between 6 and 7 years old, came from the middle classes, and had no special educational needs. We evaluated all the participants for word writing, knowledge of letters, phonological awareness, rapid automatised naming (alphanumeric and non-alphanumeric), and phonological memory. We performed descriptive-exploratory analyses and bivariate and multivariate regressions for the writing of words in each language. The results show that most of the cognitive variables considered do not contribute equally to the explanation of word writing in both languages at 6 and 7 years of age. However, in each language, at these ages, similar variables contribute to the explanation of word writing. These results have important implications for educational practice, as well as the explanatory theory of writing acquisition.
PB Springer
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/35521
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/35521
LA eng
NO González-Valenzuela, MJ., López-Montiel, D., Chebaani, F. et al. Predictors of word writing in Spanish and Arabic among 6- and 7-year-old children. Eur J Psychol Educ 40, 20 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-024-00923-5
NO Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Málaga / CBUA. This research is an International Cooperation Project, which is financed by University of Malaga. The APC was funded by the University of Málaga and Research Group SEJ 521.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 21 ene 2026