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Pan, Jue; Lin, Dan – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
This study investigated the direct and indirect roles of verbal and visuospatial memory in Chinese reading comprehension. One hundred twenty-eight Cantonese-speaking children participated in the study at the end of their 3rd year of kindergarten in Hong Kong. Both verbal and visuospatial memory were found to be significantly associated with…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Spatial Ability, Memory, Predictor Variables
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Portex, Marine; Hélin, Carolane; Ponce, Corinne; Foulin, Jean-Noël – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
In left-to-right writing cultures, spontaneous mirror writing of letters and digits in preliterate children appears more frequently on left-than right-facing characters. A compelling theory drawn on neuropsychological evidence of mirror generalization suggests that children resort to a right-orienting/writing rule when learning to write. The aim…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Skills, Emergent Literacy, Training
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Goff, Deborah A.; Pratt, Chris; Ong, Ben – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2005
The primary aim of the current study was to identify the strongest independent predictors of reading comprehension using word reading, language and memory variables in a normal sample of 180 children in grades 3-5, with a range of word reading skills. It was hypothesized that orthographic processing, receptive vocabulary and verbal working memory…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Language Skills, Memory, Decoding (Reading)