@article{SchneiderNaeslund1993,
  author    = {Schneider, Wolfgang and N{\"a}slund, Jan Carol},
  title     = {The impact of early metalinguistic competencies and memory capacity on reading and spelling in elementary school: Results of the Munich Longitudinal Study on the Genesis of Individual Competencies (LOGIC)},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-87421},
  year      = {1993},
  abstract  = {This paper reports on a longitudinal study dealing with the development of literacy in young children. A total of 163 children were first tested during their last year in kindergarten using a variety of tasks that tapped phonological processing, memory capacity, early literacy, and intelligence. Children's ward decoding, reading comprehension, and spelling skills were assessed in elementary school several years later. As a main result, all of the predictor domains had a significant impact on the acquisition of literacy in elementary school, although the contribution of each domain differed as a function of the criterion measure. An attempt to identify children-at-risk using a kindergarten screening test provided encouraging results. Nonetheless, it was shown that whereas group predictions of reading and spelling performance can be quite accurate, the individual prognosis of school problems is far from perfect.},
  subject      = {Lese- und Schreibf{\"a}higkeit},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{NaeslundSchneider1991,
  author    = {N{\"a}slund, Jan Carol and Schneider, Wolfgang},
  title     = {Longitudinal effects of verbal ability, memory capacity, and phonological awareness on reading performance},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-86606},
  year      = {1991},
  abstract  = {This study addresses the longitudinal relationship among verbal ability, memory capacity, phonological awareness, and reading performance. Data from 92 German children were used to explore the exact relation among these variables. Indicators of verbal ability, memory capacity, and phonological awareness were assessed in kindergarten and again after the first grade. The interrelationships among these factors, and the subsequent influence they have on decoding speed and reading comprehension during the second grade were examined via structural equation modefing procedures. Overall, the results of the longitudinal analyses show that the relationship of memory capacity and phonological awareness remains stable over time, and that memory capacity predicts performance on phonological awareness tasks in both kindergarten and second grade. Phonological awareness proved to be a significant predictor of decoding speed, which in turn considerably influenced reading comprehension.},
  subject      = {Lesef{\"a}higkeit},
  language  = {en}
}