Considering a conflict in literature regarding the nature of rapid automatized naming tasks, this study evaluated the factor structure underlying the measures of phonological awareness, phonological working memory and rapid automatized naming tasks using the method of structural equation modeling (SEM). Models compatible with the proposal that the tasks of phonological awareness, phonological working memory and rapid automatized naming assess phonological processing, and models compatible with the proposal that rapid automatized naming tasks do not assess phonological processing were compared. The results of this study support the hypothesis that rapid automatized naming tasks are not measures of phonological processing.
Phonological processing; rapid automatized naming; phonological awareness; phonological working memory; reading
