The unique contribution of handwriting accuracy to literacy skills in Japanese adolescents.

ABSTRACT: There is widespread concern about declining literacy skills in recent young Japanese. The present study investigated how higher-level reading and writing proficiencies are underpinned by basic literacy skills in Japanese adolescents. From a large database of the most popular literacy exams in Japan, we retrospectively analyzed word- and text-level data for middle and high school students who had taken the exams during the same period in the 2019 academic year using structural equation modeling. We extracted main data for 161 students as well as six independent datasets for validation. Our results validated the three-dimensional view of word-level literacy (reading accuracy, writing accuracy, and semantic comprehension) and demonstrated that writing and semantic skills underpinned text writ

SUBMITTER: Otsuka S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10123458 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature