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Kadioglu Ates, Hatice; Afat, Nuket – Online Submission, 2018
The objective of the present study is to identify the language development process, early literacy experiences and educational problems of an early reader identified as gifted. The research method was determined as a case study in line with this objective. The research was structured on the experiences of a fourth-grade male student born in 2010…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Language Acquisition, Gifted, Grade 4
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Yeung, Susanna S.; Chan, Carol K. K. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Background: Learning to read is very challenging for Hong Kong children who learn English as a second language (ESL), as they must acquire two very different writing systems, beginning at the age of three. Few studies have examined the role of phonological awareness at the subsyllabic levels, oral language proficiency, and L1 tone awareness in L2…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phonological Awareness, Native Language, Intonation
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Perlman, Michal; Fletcher, Brooke A. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2008
The purpose of this study was to describe literacy instruction in child care centers, examine aspects of child care center quality that may predict such instruction, and provide a limited analysis of whether literacy instruction impacts children's concurrent pre-academic functioning. Staff and children in 103 classrooms serving preschool-age…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Literacy, Child Care, Literacy Education
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Kohli, Adarsh; Kaur, Manreet; Mohanty, Manju; Malhotra, Savita – Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2006
Aim: The study compared the pattern of deficits, intelligence and neuropsychological functioning in subcategories of learning disorders. Methods: Forty-six children (16 with reading disorders, 11 with writing disorders and 19 with both reading and writing disorders--mixed group) in the age range of 7-14 years were assessed using the NIMHANS Index…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Learning Disabilities, Measures (Individuals), Memory
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Martins, Margarida Alves; Silva, Cristina – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2006
The objective of this study was to identify causal relationships between the development of phonological abilities and progress in writing in preschool children. The participants were 44 children, with an average age of 5 years and 6 months, and whose writing was syllabic with phonetization. The children were divided into three groups. They were…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Age, Preschool Children
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Shatil, Evelyn; Share, David L.; Levin, Iris – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2000
This longitudinal study examined the relationship between kindergarten word writing and Grade 1 literacy in a large sample of Israeli children. Kindergarten writing significantly predicted variance in all three measures of Grade 1 literacy, even after controlling for intelligence. Also examined the role of alphabetic skills and socioliteracy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Hebrew, Intelligence