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Li, Tong; Wang, Ying; Tong, Xiuhong; McBride, Catherine – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
To investigate the relationship between Chinese children's character and word reading, 62 third and 50 fifth grade children in Hong Kong were asked to read single characters and words that were comprised of these characters. Results showed that words helped children to recognize characters for both grades of children. Compared to older children,…
Descriptors: Chinese, Reading Processes, Written Language, Orthographic Symbols
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Rahbari, Noriyeh; Senechal, Monique – Developmental Psychology, 2010
We investigated the reading and spelling development of 140 Persian children attending Grades 1-4 in Iran. Persian has very consistent letter-sound correspondences, but it varies in transparency because 3 of its 6 vowel phonemes are not marked with letters. Persian also varies in spelling consistency because 6 phonemes have more than one…
Descriptors: Spelling, Phonemes, Foreign Countries, Grade 4
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Share, David L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2004
Experiment 1 examined the time course of orthographic learning among Grade 3 children. A single encounter with a novel orthographic string was sufficient to produce reliable recall of orthographic detail. Moreover, newly acquired orthographic information was retained 1 month later. These data support the logistic learning functions featured in…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Spelling, Phonology, Recall (Psychology)