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Cordewener, Kim A. H.; Bosman, Anna M. T.; Verhoeven, Ludo – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
This study focused on the precursors of spelling difficulties in first grade for children with specific language impairment (SLI). A sample of 58 second-year kindergartners in the Netherlands was followed until the end of first grade. Linguistic, phonological, orthographic, letter knowledge, memory, and nonverbal-reasoning skills were considered…
Descriptors: Prediction, Spelling, Language Impairments, Young Children
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de Graaff, Saskia; Bosman, Anna M. T.; Hasselman, Fred; Verhoeven, Ludo – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2009
Systematic-phonics instruction appears to be more effective than nonsystematic phonics instruction for teaching reading (Ehri, Nunes, Stahl, & Willows, 2001). In the present study, a systematic phonics approach was directly compared with a nonsystematic phonics approach for kindergarten children. Both approaches were delivered using computer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Phonics, Instructional Effectiveness
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de Graaff, Saskia; Hasselman, Fred; Bosman, Anna M. T.; Verhoeven, Ludo – Learning and Instruction, 2008
This study investigated whether task instructions affect sound-isolation performance. The effects of phoneme class and phoneme position were also assessed. Two hundred Dutch kindergartners were presented with a free-sound-isolation task and its constrained counterparts: an initial-, a middle-, and a final-sound-isolation task. All tasks contained…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Phonology, Phonemic Awareness, Indo European Languages