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Treiman, Rebecca; Cassar, Marie – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1996
Examines young children's ability to use simple morphological relations among words as a source of information about the words' spelling. Found that children used morphological relations among words only to a small extent. Suggests that although phonology plays an important role in early spelling, young children can also use other sources of…
Descriptors: Consonants, Elementary School Students, Emergent Literacy, Error Analysis (Language)
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Chapman, Marilyn L.; Michaelson, Myra – Canadian Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education, 1998
Used multiple case studies to examine the writing of eight second graders in a dual curriculum school with Hebrew as an additional language. Findings revealed some letter and directional reversals, mostly conventional word boundaries, and invented spellings in both languages. Evidence suggests that learning to write in an additional language is an…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Case Studies, Childrens Writing, Comparative Analysis