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Martins, Margarida Alves; Salvador, Liliana; Albuquerque, Ana; Silva, Cristina – Educational Psychology, 2016
Our aim was to assess the impact of an invented spelling programme conducted in small groups on children's written language acquisition in Portuguese. We expected the experimental group to have better post-test results than the control group in spelling and reading. Participants were 160 preschool-age children who were randomly divided into an…
Descriptors: Invented Spelling, Small Group Instruction, Written Language, Language Acquisition
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Muroya, Naoko; Inoue, Tomohiro; Hosokawa, Miyuki; Georgiou, George K.; Maekawa, Hisao; Parrila, Rauno – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2017
We examined the relationship between morphological awareness and word reading skills in syllabic Hiragana and morphographic Kanji. Participants were 127 Grade 1 Japanese-speaking children who were followed until Grade 2. The results showed that Grade 1 morphological awareness was uniquely and comparably associated with word reading skills in both…
Descriptors: Role, Morphology (Languages), Japanese, Elementary School Students
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Li, Degao; Gao, Kejuan; Zhang, Yue; Wu, Xueyun – American Annals of the Deaf, 2011
Inspired by a previous study of Korean deaf and hard of hearing adolescents, the researchers conducted a priming task of living-nonliving categorization with a sample of Chinese deaf and hard of hearing adolescents. The sample in this study had significantly lower accuracy levels for the thematically related items than for the taxonomically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Pictorial Stimuli
MYKLEBUST, HELMER R. – 1964
INTENDED FOR ADVANCED COURSES IN DEAF EDUCATION, THE TEXT CONSIDERS (1) THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF DEAFNESS, (2) DEAFNESS AND THE PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESSES, (3) LANGUAGE, INCLUDING SPEECH, SPEECHREADING, READING, AND WRITING, AND (4) OTHER HANDICAPS, SPECIAL ABILITIES, AND APTITUDES. THE FOUR AREAS ARE SUBDIVIDED INTO 14 CHAPTERS COVERING THE PROCESS…
Descriptors: Ability, Adjustment (to Environment), Aptitude, Child Development