The visual lexical decision as a diagnostic tool for pupils with learning difficulties in reading

Pages: 167 - 171

Language: eng

Cognitive functions are the set of mental processes concerning the acquisition of knowledge; learning is selecting information, processing it, manipulating it, and recording it to achieve an objective; several environmental, emotional, and emotional factors are also involved in learning; Reading skills have a very significant impact on all school learning as well as on students who have difficulty acquiring these skills, they find major difficulties in pursuing their studies. The study was conducted among 101 fourth-year primary school pupils from four different schools in the city of Kenitra (Morocco). The aim of this study is to assess word identi- fication mechanisms among these pupils using the language evaluation LABBEL Arabic version and to demonstrate whether the visual lexical decision task could be a diagnostic tool for pupils with difficulties learning to read. In this study we were able to draw a strong significant correlation at 0.01 level (R = 0.82) between reading complex words and reading words and non-words; also a significant correlation at the 0.01 level between the visual lexical decision and the complex word reading task and the task of reading words and non-words and between the visual lexical decision and the lexical auditory decision, this confirms the existence of difficulties in the installation of a mental lexicon in these pupils, thus hindering the automatization of reading. The results of this study confirm the validity of the visual lexical decision task as a diagnostic tool for pupils with difficulties learning to read.

Chairat, F., Loukili , A., Attaf , H., Aouane, E. M. 2025. The visual lexical decision as a diagnostic tool for pupils with learning difficulties in reading. In Activitas Nervosa Superior Rediviva, vol. 67, no.4, pp. 167-171. 1337-933X. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/ansr.2025.67.4.3

Chairat, F., Loukili , A., Attaf , H., Aouane, E. M. (2025). The visual lexical decision as a diagnostic tool for pupils with learning difficulties in reading. Activitas Nervosa Superior Rediviva, 67(4), 167-171. 1337-933X. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/ansr.2025.67.4.3

Publisher: Centre of Experimental Medicine SAS/INPP