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
Dr. Ammara Farukh, Muhammad Shahid, Dr. Syed Shujaat Ali . (2020) Underpinning the Relationship between Non-Verbal Intelligence and English Literacy Skills at Grade 3: A Psychometric Test-Based Study, Pakistan Social Sciences Review, Volume 4, Issue 3.
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