The role of executive function in early Korean Hangul reading (초기 한글 읽기 발달에서 실행 기능의 역할: 억제 능력 및 인지적 유연성을 중심으로)

주나래; Youngon Choi (최영은); Cho, Jeung-Ryeul (조증열)

The role of executive function in early Korean Hangul reading

THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
2015, 28(2), pp.125-144
Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science

주나래 ¹, Youngon Choi ¹, Cho, Jeung-Ryeul ²

¹중앙대학교
²경남대학교

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ABSTRACT

Recent studies have suggested that executive function (EF) abilities, in particular inhibitory control and cognitive flexibility, relate to reading development from preschool years. The present study examined the unique importance of EFs for the early Korean Hangul reading. We tested 125 Korean children (ages 4-6 years) on tasks of inhibitory control, cognitive flexibility, working memory, Korean word reading, phonological awareness, listening comprehension and vocabulary knowledge. With age, vocabulary knowledge, and working memory capacity statistically controlled, a prepotent response inhibition measured by Go/no-go task and interference suppression measured by Flanker task contributed unique variance to phonological awareness. Additionally, the prepotent response inhibition and cognitive flexibility significantly predicted listening comprehension. These results highlight the unique roles of inhibitory control and cognitive flexibility for the development of Korean Hangul reading in beginning readers of Korean.

KEYWORDS

early reading development, executive functions, inhibition, cognitive flexibility, preschool years

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.

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