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Joana Acha; Gorka Ibaibarriaga; Nuria Rodríguez; Manuel Perea – Journal of Literacy Research, 2024
Letter knowledge and word identification are key skills for reading and spelling. Letter knowledge facilitates the application of sublexical letter-sound mappings to decode words. With reading experience, word identification becomes a key lexical skill to support decoding. In transparent orthographies, however, letter knowledge might be an…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Languages, Literacy
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Alasali, Hesham H.; Aljomaa, Suliman S. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
To examining the role of cultural differences in speed of lexical access, we employed two types of Posner (1967) name matching task: Arabic and English types. We have conducted an experiment on 30 native Arabic speakers from King Saud University. The results showed that the lexical access to physically identical letters is faster than lexical…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, English, Cultural Differences, Naming
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Zhang, Qi; Lu, Zhouxiang – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2014
The current study investigates the applications of the pinyin input system, a Chinese word processing method, for writing on Facebook in order to help CFL (Chinese as a foreign language) learners from two Irish universities to improve their handwriting in Chinese characters on paper. The data were collected from writing activities conducted over…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Orthographic Symbols, Alphabets, Chinese