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Ng, Clarence; Graham, Steve; Liu, Xinghua; Lau, Kit-Ling; Tang, Kit-Yi – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
Motives for writing is a new research area in the field of writing motivation. Recent studies have identified important motives for students' writing. Adding to this nascent foundation, the current study examined relationships between writing motives, writing self-efficacy and time spent on writing using a sample of grade 4 Chinese students in…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Self Efficacy, Time on Task, Foreign Countries
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Malpique, Anabela Abreu; Pino-Pasternak, Deborah; Valcan, Debora – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
Accumulating evidence indicates handwriting automaticity is related to the development of effective writing skills. The present study examined the levels of handwriting automaticity of Australian children at the end of kindergarten and the amount and type of writing instruction they experienced before entering first grade. The current study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Handwriting, Writing Instruction
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Torppa, Minna; Parrila, Rauno; Niemi, Pekka; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina; Poikkeus, Anna-Maija; Nurmi, Jari-Erik – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
We examined the double deficit hypothesis (Wolf & Bowers, 1999) and literacy development in a longitudinal dataset of 1,006 Finnish children who were nonreaders at school entry. A single phonological awareness (PA) deficit was a predictor of pseudoword spelling accuracy and reading fluency, and a single rapid automatized naming (RAN) deficit…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Orthographic Symbols, Emergent Literacy, Longitudinal Studies