TY - JOUR
T1 - Pure and Short-Term Phonics-Training Improves Reading and Print-Specific ERP in English
T2 - A Case Study of a Japanese Middle School Girl
AU - Okumura, Yasuko
AU - Kita, Yosuke
AU - Inagaki, Masumi
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (15K13259 to YO), Intramural Research Grant for Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders from National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (28-7 to YK and MI), and Health Labour Sciences Research Grant (H28-Kankaku-Ippan-001 to YK and MI).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2017/5/19
Y1 - 2017/5/19
N2 - Although phonics is the most frequently used approach in treating students with reading difficulties, its effects have not been fully clarified at either a behavioral or neurophysiological level. The present case study administered pure and short-term (i.e., 10 minutes per day for five weeks) phonics-training to a 13-year-old Japanese girl with severe difficulty in learning English. As a result, a drastic improvement in reading accuracy was associated with the enhancement of print-specific N170 in event-related potentials (ERPs) elicited by the trained words. The present finding indicates that phonics training can, by itself, remediate English reading and affect its neurophysiological bases.
AB - Although phonics is the most frequently used approach in treating students with reading difficulties, its effects have not been fully clarified at either a behavioral or neurophysiological level. The present case study administered pure and short-term (i.e., 10 minutes per day for five weeks) phonics-training to a 13-year-old Japanese girl with severe difficulty in learning English. As a result, a drastic improvement in reading accuracy was associated with the enhancement of print-specific N170 in event-related potentials (ERPs) elicited by the trained words. The present finding indicates that phonics training can, by itself, remediate English reading and affect its neurophysiological bases.
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U2 - 10.1080/87565641.2017.1334784
DO - 10.1080/87565641.2017.1334784
M3 - Article
C2 - 28678540
AN - SCOPUS:85021800313
SN - 8756-5641
VL - 42
SP - 265
EP - 275
JO - Developmental Neuropsychology
JF - Developmental Neuropsychology
IS - 4
ER -