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Early Prediction of Reading Development in Japanese Hiragana and Kanji: A Longitudinal Study from Kindergarten to Grade 1
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Tanji, Takayuki; Inoue, Tomohiro – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
We examined the cognitive predictors of early word reading skills in Japanese syllabic Hiragana and morphographic Kanji. Eighty-three Japanese kindergarten children (M age = 75.6 months, SD = 3.4) were assessed on nonverbal IQ, vocabulary, phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming (RAN), phonological memory, morphological awareness, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables, Early Reading, Reading Skills
Categorical Perception of Chinese Characters by Simplified and Traditional Chinese Readers
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Yang, Ruoxiao; Wang, William Shi Yuan – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
Recent research has shown that the visual complexity of orthographies across writing systems influences the development of orthographic representations. Simplified and traditional Chinese characters are usually regarded as the most visually complicated writing systems currently in use, with the traditional system showing a higher level of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Orthographic Symbols, Difficulty Level
Finger-Writing Intervention Impacts the Spelling and Handwriting Skills of Children with Developmental Language Disorder: A Multiple Single-Case Study
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Van Reybroeck, Marie; Michiels, Nathalie – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
Learning to use grapheme to phoneme correspondences (GPCs) provides a powerful mechanism for the foundation of reading skills in children. However, for some children, such as those with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), the GPC learning process takes time, is laborious, and impacts the entire reading and spelling processes. The present study…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Writing Instruction, Spelling, Developmental Disabilities
Building Literacy in Alphabetic, Abjad and Morphosyllabic Systems
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Tolchinsky, Liliana; Levin, Iris; Aram, Dorit; McBride-Chang, Catherine – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
Preschoolers' metalinguistic and visual capabilities may be associated with the writing system of their culture. We examined patterns of performance in phonological awareness, naming of letters, morphological awareness, and visual-spatial relations, in 5-year-old native speakers of Spanish (n = 43), Hebrew (n = 40), and Cantonese (n = 63) and the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Native Speakers, Phonological Awareness, Naming
The Role of Visual Discrimination in the Learning-to-Read Process
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Woodrome, Stacey E.; Johnson, Kathy E. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2009
Two studies were conducted to evaluate the extent to which visual discrimination (VisD) skills play a role in developing letter identification abilities, which are essential in learning to read. Results from a correlational analysis of 73 4- and 5-year-olds revealed a significant association between VisD and letter identification abilities, which…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Phonemics, Phonemic Awareness, Alphabets