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van Daal, Victor H. P.; Wass, Malin – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2017
Effects of orthographic depth on orthographic learning ability were examined in 10- to 13-year-old children who learnt to read in similar orthographies differing in orthographic depth, defined as consistency of grapheme-to-phoneme correspondences. Danish children who learnt to read a deep orthography underperformed their Swedish counterparts who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Orthographic Symbols, Native Language, English (Second Language)
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Peterson, Robin L.; Pennington, Bruce F.; Samuelsson, Stefan; Byrne, Brian; Olson, Richard K. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: The goal of this study was to investigate the etiologic basis for the association between deficits in phonological memory (PM) and vocabulary in school-age children. Method: Children with deficits in PM or vocabulary were identified within the International Longitudinal Twin Study (ILTS; Samuelsson et al., 2005). The ILTS includes 1,045…
Descriptors: Etiology, Phonology, Short Term Memory, Vocabulary
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Nyroos, Mikaela; Wiklund-Hornqvist, Carola – Educational Psychology, 2012
The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between working memory capacity and mathematical performance measured by the national curriculum assessment in third-grade children (n = 40). The national tests concerned six subareas within mathematics. One-way ANOVA, two-tailed Pearson correlation and multiple regression analyses were…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Primary Education, Educational Attainment, Short Term Memory
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Gustafson, Stefan; Falth, Linda; Svensson, Idor; Tjus, Tomas; Heimann, Mikael – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2011
In a longitudinal intervention study, the effects of three intervention strategies on the reading skills of children with reading disabilities in Grade 2 were analyzed. The interventions consisted of computerized training programs: One bottom-up intervention aimed at improving word decoding skills and phonological abilities, the second…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Intervention, Disabilities, Decoding (Reading)