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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Educational Psychology

Background:

  • Reading numbers aloud is crucial for numerical literacy but challenging for children.
  • The underlying reasons for difficulties in number reading remain unclear.
  • Understanding these challenges is vital for improving educational strategies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the origins of difficulty in reading numbers aloud among elementary school children.
  • To identify factors influencing number reading performance, specifically distinguishing between syntactic and magnitude-based challenges.
  • To explore the relationship between different types of numerical knowledge and number reading accuracy.

Main Methods:

  • Assessed the number reading aloud performance of 127 third- and fourth-grade children in Hebrew, using numbers with 2-5 digits.
  • Analyzed error types, categorizing them as syntactic distortions, digit substitutions, or transpositions.
  • Correlated reading performance with performance on tasks assessing syntactic-conceptual knowledge and specific syntactic-verbal rules.

Main Results:

  • Significant variation in performance was observed, with error rates differing substantially between high and low-performing students.
  • Number reading difficulty was primarily linked to the syntactic structure of numbers, not their magnitude.
  • Performance was predicted by knowledge of specific syntactic-verbal rules, not general syntactic-conceptual knowledge of the decimal system.
  • A double dissociation was found between 4- and 5-digit numbers, indicating independent learning of their distinct syntactic structures.

Conclusions:

  • The difficulty in reading numbers aloud stems from mastering specific syntactic-verbal rules rather than general conceptual understanding.
  • Hebrew number reading involves distinct syntactic structures for different digit lengths, learned independently.
  • Educational interventions should focus on explicit instruction of specific syntactic-verbal rules for number reading to enhance numerical literacy.