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Desrochers, Alain; Manolitsis, George; Gaudreau, Patrick; Georgiou, George – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
In the present study, we examined the role of morphological awareness in reading and spelling performance across three languages varying in orthographic consistency (English, French, and Greek), after controlling for the effects of phonological awareness and rapid automatized naming (RAN). One hundred fifty-nine English-speaking Canadian, 238…
Descriptors: Literacy, Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, Reading Fluency
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Georgiou, George K.; Torppa, Minna; Manolitsis, George; Lyytinen, Heikki; Parrila, Rauno – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
We examined the longitudinal predictors of nonword decoding, reading fluency, and spelling in three languages that vary in orthographic depth: Finnish, Greek, and English. Eighty-two English-speaking, 70 Greek, and 88 Finnish children were followed from the age of 5.5 years old until Grade 2. Prior to any reading instruction, they were…
Descriptors: English, Finno Ugric Languages, Greek, Predictor Variables