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Wang, Ying; McBride, Catherine – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
This study assessed the effects of three intervention programs for Chinese literacy development in kindergartners: the copying (Copy) program; a combined program of copying and Pinyin knowledge (Copy + Pinyin); and a combined program of copying and morphological awareness (Copy + MA). Ninety-seven kindergarteners aged 5-7 years in mainland China…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Chinese, Intervention, Comparative Analysis
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Gaintza, Zuriñe; Goikoetxea, Edurne – Journal of Research in Reading, 2016
Two randomised control experiments examined spelling outcomes in a repeated measures design (pre-test, post-tests; 1-day, 1-month follow-up, 5-month follow-up), where students learned Spanish irregular words through (1) immediate feedback using self-correction, (2) visual imagery where children imagine and represent words using movement, and (3)…
Descriptors: Spelling Instruction, Spanish, Control Groups, Pretests Posttests
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Landau, Joshua D.; Lehr, Donald P. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2004
Undergraduates studied nonword exemplars and then created their own novel nonwords. In Experiment 1, people studied legal or illegal nonwords. In Experiment 2, people studied illegal nonwords, but to increase awareness of the features, half of the participants assessed the features of the nonwords. Despite instructions to avoid copying any aspect…
Descriptors: Imagination, Creative Thinking, Experiments, Experimental Groups