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Direct linkSpencer, Llinos H.; Hanley, J. Richard – Journal of Research in Reading, 2004
This study compared the early reading development of five-year-old children who were learning to read either English (an opaque orthography) or Welsh (a shallow orthography). The children were being educated in Welsh and English-speaking primary schools in Wales during their first year of formal reading instruction. Teaching methods in both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Phonology
