Bridging the decoding-vocabulary gap during children's reading. This project aims to address the urgent problem of low reading achievement by discovering how children adjust their mispronunciations as

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Bridging the decoding-vocabulary gap during children's reading. This project aims to address the urgent problem of low reading achievement by discovering how children adjust their mispronunciations as they learn to read new words that do not follow phonics rules. Using a series of training studies, this project will systematically unpack the factors that could help children to match initial mispronunciations (e.g., "TONG-OO") to correct pronunciations (e.g., tongue) during reading. The expected outcome is the development of a theory of this pronunciation adjustment mechanism that can be used to improve the teaching of reading in primary school. Rapid research translation is an explicit goal of this project so that its findings can have real-world impact on the reading outcomes of Australian children. . Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. Field: 5204 - Cognitive and Computational Psychology. Lead: Dr Signy Wegener