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Sambai, Ami; Tsukada, Mayu; Miki, Ayaka; Uno, Akira – Journal of Research in Reading, 2023
Background: In opaque orthographies, such as English, children with low reading skills tend to rely more on semantic information due to their inadequate acquisition of sub-lexical knowledge. This tendency has also been reported for kanji, a non-alphabetic and opaque Japanese orthography. However, previous studies on this phenomenon have had…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Reading Difficulties, Orthographic Symbols
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Kimberly Klassen – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2022
A standard treatment of proper names in second language (L2) vocabulary analyses is to categorize them as known items. This treatment is often supported by the assumption that the form of the proper name (i.e., the initial capital letter) and the context will indicate to the L2 reader that the item is a proper name. The aim of this work-in-…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Naming, Second Language Learning, Cues