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Young-Suk Grace Kim; Jonathan Stern; Nompumelelo Mohohlwane; Stephen Taylor – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
Longitudinal data from the Early Grade Reading Study (EGRS I) in South Africa (N = 4538) were used to examine the role of instructional contexts in the relations of literacy skills between children's home language (L1 Setswana) and a second language (L2 English). All children received literacy instruction in Setswana in Grades 1 to 3. However,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Elementary School Students, Native Language Instruction
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Marjokorpi, Jenni – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Previous studies have indicated that students' writing skills benefit from contextualized L1 grammar teaching, in which language structures are observed and analyzed in authentic texts and as embedded into teaching of reading and writing. The contextualized approach is also promoted by the current Finnish curriculum for basic education. This study…
Descriptors: Grammar, Writing Skills, Finno Ugric Languages, Secondary School Students
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Marta Lockiewicz; Natalia Barzowska – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
This paper presents the adaptation of the POMAS classification of spelling errors (Silliman et al., Developmental Neuropsychology 29:93-123, 2006, Bahr et al., Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research 55:1587-1599, 2012; International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 18:73-91, 2015) to Polish orthography. We identified the…
Descriptors: Spelling, Error Patterns, Polish, Elementary School Students
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Zhang, Haomin; Koda, Keiko – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
This study explored the role of vocabulary knowledge and morphological awareness in reading comprehension ability of Chinese as a heritage language (CHL) learners. One hundred ninety five CHL students participated in this study and completed a series of measures including two sets of vocabulary knowledge (one consisting of items pertaining to…
Descriptors: Chinese, Native Language, Vocabulary, Morphology (Languages)
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Luo, Yang Cathy; Koh, Poh Wee; Deacon, S. Hélène; Chen, Xi – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
The study examined the role of phonological awareness and morphological awareness in concurrent and subsequent oral vocabulary among Chinese-English bilingual children who learned Chinese as their heritage language and English as their societal language. Ninety-one Chinese-English bilingual children in kindergarten and Grade 1 who were recruited…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Morphology (Languages), Bilingual Students, Chinese