Measuring Lexical Quality: The Role of Spelling Ability

The construct of ‘lexical quality’ (Perfetti Scientific Studies of Reading 11, 357–383, 2007) is widely invoked in literature on word recognition and reading to refer to a systematic dimension of individual differences that predicts performance in a range of word identification and reading tasks in both developing readers and skilled adult populations. Many different approaches have been used to assess lexical quality, but few have captured the...