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Grace, Abbie; Kemp, Nenagh; Martin, Frances Heritage; Parrila, Rauno – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
Research investigating whether people's literacy skill is being affected by the use of text messaging language has produced largely positive results for children, but mixed results for adults. We asked 150 undergraduate university students in Western Canada and 86 in South Eastern Australia to supply naturalistic text messages and to complete…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Reading Skills, Spelling
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Deacon, S. Hélène; Commissaire, Eva; Chen, Xi; Pasquarella, Adrian – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
As children learn to read, they become sensitive to the patterns that exist in the ways in which their language(s) are represented in print. This skill is known as orthographic processing. We examined the nature of orthographic processing in English and French for children in the first grade of a French immersion program, and the relationship…
Descriptors: French, Immersion Programs, Elementary School Students, Second Language Learning