RESEARCH OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (SMC-PRIVATE) LIMITED(ROSS) & PAKISTAN SOCIAL SCIENCES REVIEW (PSSR) adheres to Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International License. The authors submitting and publishing in PSSR agree to the copyright policy under creative common license 4.0 (Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International license). Under this license, the authors published in PSSR retain the copyright including publishing rights of their scholarly work and agree to let others remix, tweak, and build upon their work non-commercially. All other authors using the content of PSSR are required to cite author(s) and publisher in their work. Therefore, RESEARCH OF SOCIAL SCIENCES (SMC-PRIVATE) LIMITED(ROSS) & PAKISTAN SOCIAL SCIENCES REVIEW (PSSR) follow an Open Access Policy for copyright and licensing.
How to Cite
Underpinning the Relationship between Non-Verbal Intelligence and English Literacy Skills at Grade 3: A Psychometric Test-Based Study
Abstract
This study aimed at exploring the relationship of IQ tasks of non-verbal nature with reading, and dictation skills in second language. A number of 66 participants were chosen from a huge sample meant for another study Farukh and Vulchanova, 2014 that had been conducted earlier by one of the current researchers. The specifications of the participant students were that all of them were of the same nine years of age and hailed from schools of public and private sectors situated in a comparatively under-developed district of the Punjab province. The participants were subjected to 7 standard non-verbal IQ tasks i.e. WISC III and Raven’s Advanced Progressive Matrices, and to tasks covering English reading, and dictation skills. On all of the tasks, two diverse types of factors became the basis for loading scores i.e. firstly all of the IQ-related Nonverbal tasks, and secondly WISC IV digit coding, RAPM, arranging pictures, with Reading as well as Dictation.
Authors
Dr. Ammara Farukh
Assistant Professor, Department of of English Linguistics, University of Education (Vehari Campus), Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Dr. Syed Shujaat Ali
Chairman, Department of English, Kohat University of Science & Technology, Kohat, KP Pakistan
Muhammad Shahid
Lecturer, Department of English, University of Malakand, KP, Pakistan
Keywords
Dyslexia Intelligence, IQ Tests, Literacy Skills, Non-Verbal Intelligence
