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Yang Fu; Xiaohui Yan; Jiaqi Mao; Haibin Su; Fan Cao – npj Science of Learning, 2024
Reading difficulty (RD) is associated with phonological deficits; however, it remains unknown whether the phonological deficits are different in children and adults with RD as reflected in foreign speech perception and production. In the current study, using functional Near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), we found less difference between Chinese…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Adults, Children, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Cléa Girard; Thomas Bastelica; Jessica Léone; Justine Epinat-Duclos; Léa Longo; Jérôme Prado – npj Science of Learning, 2021
Previous studies indicate that children are exposed to different literacy experiences at home. Although these disparities have been shown to affect children's literacy skills, it remains unclear whether and how home literacy practices influence brain activity underlying word-level reading. In the present study, we asked parents of French children…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 3, Foreign Countries, Reading Habits
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Wei Zhou; Veronica P. Y. Kwok; Mengmeng Su; Jin Luo; Li Hai Tan – npj Science of Learning, 2020
Communications through electronic devices require knowledge in typewriting, typically with the pinyin input method in China. Yet, the over utilization of the pronunciation-based pinyin input method may violate the traditional learning processes of written Chinese, which involves abundant visual orthographic analysis of characters and repeated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preadolescents, Chinese, Alphabets
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Solange Denervaud; Eleonora Fornari; Xiao-Fei Yang; Patric Hagmann; Mary Helen Immordino-Yang; David Sander – npj Science of Learning, 2020
The development of error monitoring is central to learning and academic achievement. However, few studies exist on the neural correlates of children's error monitoring, and no studies have examined its susceptibility to educational influences. Pedagogical methods differ on how they teach children to learn from errors. Here, 32 students (aged 8-12…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Error Patterns, Montessori Method, Brain