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The Nature of Traditional Orthography and the Initial Teaching Alphabet. Review of Historical Research: Summary #4.

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Sandel, Lenore – 1998

In the traditional alphabet, 26 letters represent 40 different and distinct sounds of the spoken English language in transcription. This prevents a one-to-one phoneme-grapheme correspondence since some of the written symbols represent more than one sound. These inconsistencies in the writing system, recognized as the source of difficulty in…

Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Beginning Writing, Childrens Writing, Educational Research

La complexite des relations grapho-phonetiques explique-t-elle les difficultes d'apprentissage de la lecture? Le cas de l'hebreu en Israel. (Does Complexity of Grapho-Phonetic Correspondence Explain Problems in Early Reading? The Case of Hebrew in Israel.)

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Fijalkow, Jacques – Journal of Research in Reading, 1980

Cites the case of Hebrew learning in Israel to show that, contrary to popular belief, the complexity of grapho-phonetic relationships is a minor or nonexistent factor in learning difficulties. (FL)

Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Foreign Countries, Hebrew, Initial Teaching Alphabet