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Invented Spelling Activities in Small Groups and Early Spelling and Reading
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Martins, Margarida Alves; Salvador, Liliana; Albuquerque, Ana; Silva, Cristina – Educational Psychology, 2016
Our aim was to assess the impact of an invented spelling programme conducted in small groups on children's written language acquisition in Portuguese. We expected the experimental group to have better post-test results than the control group in spelling and reading. Participants were 160 preschool-age children who were randomly divided into an…
Descriptors: Invented Spelling, Small Group Instruction, Written Language, Language Acquisition
Chinese Deaf and Hard of Hearing Adolescents' Awareness of Thematic and Taxonomic Relations among Ordinary Concepts Represented by Pictures and Written Words
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Li, Degao; Gao, Kejuan; Zhang, Yue; Wu, Xueyun – American Annals of the Deaf, 2011
Inspired by a previous study of Korean deaf and hard of hearing adolescents, the researchers conducted a priming task of living-nonliving categorization with a sample of Chinese deaf and hard of hearing adolescents. The sample in this study had significantly lower accuracy levels for the thematically related items than for the taxonomically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Pictorial Stimuli