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Shawn Hemelstrand; Tomohiro Inoue – Reading Research Quarterly, 2024
The unique orthographic complexities of Japanese, which utilizes multiple types of scripts (morphographic kanji and syllabic hiragana and katakana) for the same spoken language, place unique demands on early learners. Much research has centered on the average ability of Japanese readers, but given the varying challenges of these scripts, attention…
Descriptors: Japanese, Literacy, Contrastive Linguistics, Generalization
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Church, Jessica A.; Grigorenko, Elena L.; Fletcher, Jack M. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2023
To learn to read, the brain must repurpose neural systems for oral language and visual processing to mediate written language. We begin with a description of computational models for how alphabetic written language is processed. Next, we explain the roles of a dorsal sublexical system in the brain that relates print and speech, a ventral lexical…
Descriptors: Genetics, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Reading Processes, Oral Language
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Lomax, Richard G.; McGee, Lea M. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1987
Presents results of tested theoretical models of the development of print concepts and word reading. Indicates that children expand their knowledge in each of the following print components with age: print, graphic awareness, phonemic awareness, grapheme-phoneme correspondence knowledge, and word reading components. (NKA)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Decoding (Reading), Early Childhood Education, Early Reading