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Literacy Learning in the Twenty-First Century: How Much Have We Learnt?
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Clark, Margaret M. – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2017
Languages differ in the way that speech and meaning are represented in written form: in English, the correspondences are variable. Thus, in learning to read in English there is need for an approach that combines alphabetic decoding and a mastery of sight vocabulary. Teaching children to read should develop from an analysis of the skills and…
Descriptors: Literacy, Written Language, Speech Communication, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Transition-from-Early-to-Sophisticated-Literacy (TESL) as a Factor in Cross-National Achievement Differences
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Galletly, Susan A.; Knight, Bruce Allen – Australian Educational Researcher, 2011
The PISA studies of reading achievement of 15 year old students in OECD and partner nations show Anglophone nations to have continuing high proportions of weak readers (less than or equal to Level 2), with no improvement in this area from 2000 to 2006 (OECD, "Science competencies for tomorrow's world: Executive summary," 2007). The…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Spelling, Reading Achievement, Low Achievement
Reading Proficiency and Orthography: Evidence from Hebrew and English.
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Shimron, Joseph; Sivan, Tamar – Language Learning, 1994
Two experiments tested whether the orthography of readers' first or second language affected their reading time and comprehension in each. English and Hebrew bilingual graduate students and faculty read texts translated into both Hebrew and English. The English native speakers read the English texts significantly faster than the native Hebrew…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, College Faculty, English, Foreign Countries