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Phonological Skills and Vocabulary Knowledge Mediate Socioeconomic Status Effects in Predicting Reading Outcomes for Chinese Children
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Zhang, Yuping; Tardif, Twila; Shu, Hua; Li, Hong; Liu, Hongyun; McBride-Chang, Catherine; Liang, Weilan; Zhang, Zhixiang – Developmental Psychology, 2013
This study examined the relations among socioeconomic status (SES), early phonological processing, vocabulary, and reading in 262 children from diverse SES backgrounds followed from ages 4 to 9 in Beijing, China. SES contributed to variations in phonological skills and vocabulary in children's early development. Nonetheless, early phonological and…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Instruction, Foreign Countries, Language Skills
How Specific Is the Connection between Morphological Awareness and Spelling? A Study of French Children
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Casalis, S.; Deacon, S. H.; Pacton, S. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2011
This study examined the relationship between morphological awareness and spelling. We show that French children in Grades 3 and 4 appear to use morphological information in spelling; spelling of sounds for which there are several alternatives was more accurate in derived than in nonderived words. The link between morphological awareness and…
Descriptors: Spelling, Morphology (Languages), Grade 3, Grade 4