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Geva, Esther; Siegel, Linda S. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2000
Considers whether the development of reading skills in different orthographies varies primarily as a function of common underlying cognitive processes, or as a function of orthographic transparency. Concludes that when the script is less complex young children appear to develop their word recognition skills with relative ease, even in the absence…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education