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Direct linkPandey, Aparna; Padakannaya, Prakash – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Perceptual span, the effective visual field in reading covered in a single fixation, varies across orthographies. The perceptual span for reading English covers 3-4-character spaces to the left of fixation and around 14-15-character spaces to the right of the fixation while for Chinese it is one character space to the left and 3-character spaces…
Descriptors: Dravidian Languages, Visual Perception, Reading Skills, Eye Movements
Buvaneswari, B.; Padakannaya, Prakash – Language Testing in Asia, 2017
Background: The development of emergent literacy skills depends upon the literacy environments and experiences of children at home. Children's home literacy environment is closely related to the development of various aspects of emergent literacy like letter knowledge, phonological awareness, and vocabulary. Dimensions of home literacy…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Questionnaires, Family Literacy, Kindergarten
Siddaiah, Anand; Saldanha, Marita; Venkatesh, Shyamala K.; Ramachandra, Nallur B.; Padakannaya, Prakash – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
RAN tests were administered to 600 typically developing children, 60 each from grade level one through grade ten (30 boys and 30 girls), who learn two distinct languages, English and Kannada simultaneously from the very first grade. The overall results were in accordance with similar previous studies in English and other European languages. The…
Descriptors: Naming, Language Processing, Psycholinguistics, Elementary School Students
Malatesha Joshi, R.; Padakannaya, Prakash; Nishanimath, S. – Dyslexia, 2010
This study explores the nature of reading difficulties of two bilinguals in Kannada and English, which vary in their orthographic depth and script layout. VN and MS manifest two different types of reading disabilities, dyslexia and hyperlexia, respectively. The performance of VN was below average on Kannada and English tests of phonemic awareness,…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Bilingualism, Dravidian Languages, English
Chengappa, Shyamala; Bhat, Sapna; Padakannaya, Prakash – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2004
Reading and writing deficits in two multilingual speakers of Kannada, Hindi and English are described. Disorders of the two patients (Mr G and Ms S) had different etiologies. Mr G had severe alexia with agraphia in English as well as in Kannada and Hindi. Ms S exhibited dissociation across the languages, showing symptoms of surface dyslexia in…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Writing Skills, Multilingualism, Aphasia
