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Bhide, Adeetee; Luo, Wencan; Vijay, Nivita; Perfetti, Charles; Wang, Jingtao; Maries, Adrian; Nag, Sonali – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
Previous research with alphasyllabaries has shown that children struggle with akshara that have two or more consonants, known as complex akshara. We developed a mobile game that teaches 4th grade children Hindi decoding skills, with an emphasis on complex akshara. All of the children were second language learners of Hindi. There were two versions…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Second Language Learning, Decoding (Reading), Educational Games
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Vibulpatanavong, Kanokporn; Evans, David – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
Phonological awareness has been found to be an important skill underpinning reading development in several alphabetic languages. However, the development of phonological awareness and its relationship to reading development can be influenced by the nature of the language under investigation. While understanding this relationship in Thai language…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Thai
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Bellocchi, Stéphanie; Tobia, Valentina; Bonifacci, Paola – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
Many studies have shown that learning to read in a second language (L2) is similar, in many ways, to learning to read in a first language (L1). Nevertheless, reading development also relies upon oral language proficiency and is greatly influenced by orthographic consistency. This longitudinal study aimed to analyze the role of linguistic…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Second Language Learning, Italian, Predictor Variables