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Aram, Dorit; Hazan, Hadar; Levin, Iris – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
The study's aims were to (a) evaluate preschoolers' use of private speech (overt talk to themselves) during spelling; and (b) study how it is affected by the nature of orthography. Participants were 197 Hebrew speaking Israeli preschoolers (109 girls and 88 boys) (M = 5.6 years). Children spelled 12 words (N =44 letters) that represented one of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Inner Speech (Subvocal), Semitic Languages
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Aram, Dorit; Abiri, Shimrit; Elad, Lili – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
The present study aimed to extend understanding of preschoolers' early spelling using the Vygotskian ("Mind in society: the development of higher psychological processes," Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1978) paradigm of child development. We assessed the contribution of maternal spelling support in predicting children's word…
Descriptors: Prediction, Spelling, Emergent Literacy, Phonological Awareness