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Anabela Abreu Malpique; Debora Valcan; Deborah Pino-Pasternak; Susan Ledger; Margaret Merga – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
In many classrooms across the globe, students are expected to comprehend and produce handwritten and computer-generated texts as soon as they start school. As we progress towards digitalisation in education, it has become necessary to understand the effects of writing modality on students' literacy performance and development. The current…
Descriptors: Effect Size, Writing Achievement, Reading Achievement, Handwriting
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Grushkin, Donald A. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2017
Signed languages around the world have tended to maintain an "oral," unwritten status. Despite the advantages of possessing a written form of their language, signed language communities typically resist and reject attempts to create such written forms. The present article addresses many of the arguments against written forms of signed…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Written Language, History, Orthographic Symbols
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McKinnon, Debra – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2017
Literacy skills are the cornerstones of student learning and achievement. Now more than ever, educators are expected to produce quantitative data that demonstrates a high level of literacy success. Simultaneously, teachers are encountering a diverse student population that requires greater differentiation in instructional strategies. This research…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Primary Education, Student Diversity
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Nickjoo, Mahvash – Reading Teacher, 1979
Describes the difficulty in reading and writing Persian script which may contribute to illiteracy in Iran and notes the political and religious considerations which make change difficult. (MKM)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Arabic, Illiteracy, Islamic Culture
Fuller, Renee – 1991
This paper offers a description of the Ball-Stick-Bird reading system which has been used successfully to teach students with IQs as low as 20 to read with comprehension. A summary of research findings on this approach is presented as well as a discussion of these findings within a neurological/behavioral/evolutionary framework. A new theory of…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Alphabets, Basic Skills, Beginning Reading
Ferreiro, Emilia; Teberosky, Ana – 1982
The reflections and theses on preschool children's literacy development presented in this book are the result of an experimental project carried out in Buenos Aires from 1974 to 1976. Chapter 1 discusses the educational situation in Latin America, traditional methods of reading instruction, contemporary psycholinguistics, the pertinence of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Experience, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition