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Arfé, Barbara; Dockrell, Julie E.; De Bernardi, Bianca – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
Spelling skills have been identified as one of the major barriers to written text production in young English writers. By contrast oral language skills and text generation have been found to be less influential in the texts produced by beginning writers. To date, our understanding of the role of spelling skills in transparent orthographies is…
Descriptors: Spelling, Oral Language, English, Writing (Composition)
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Dockrell, Julie E.; Connelly, Vincent – Journal of Research in Reading, 2015
Children with specific language impairments (SLI) have difficulties in producing written text. It was hypothesised that the constraints on writing in children with SLI were similar to typically developing younger children with the same level of vocabulary knowledge. Twenty-three children with SLI (aged 10:5) were matched with 23 children for…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Role, Language Impairments, Phonology