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Vangsnes, Øystein A.; Söderlund, Göran B. W.; Blekesaune, Morten – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
The Norwegian language has two written standards, Bokmål (majority variety) and Nynorsk (minority variety), and children receive their schooling in one or other of them. Pupils schooled in Nynorsk acquire the Bokmål variety simultaneously through extracurricular exposure and thus develop what may be termed "bidialectal literacy". In this…
Descriptors: Norwegian, Literacy, Language Variation, Dialects
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Cuetos, Fernando; Suarez-Coalla, Paz – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
The relationship between written words and their pronunciation varies considerably among different orthographic systems, and these variations have repercussions on learning to read. Children whose languages have deep orthographies must learn to pronounce larger units, such as rhymes, morphemes, or whole words, to achieve the correct pronunciation…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Pronunciation, Phonology, Morphemes
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Kelly, M.; Philp, H. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1975
Analysis of results of tests of cognitive development in Papua New Guinea children indicated that membership of different language/culture groups was an important source of variance. (Editor)
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Educational Psychology, Language Classification