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Yeung, Susanna Siu-sze; Savage, Robert – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2020
Reading interventions developed to teach grapheme-phoneme correspondences (GPCs) were evaluated among L2 at-risk readers. In the direct mapping of grapheme (DMG) condition, children's attention was explicitly drawn to the application of a graphemes taught on that day to shared reading of words in authentic text. In the control condition there was…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Reading Instruction, Elementary School Students
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Ulicheva, Anastasia; Coltheart, Max; Saunders, Steven; Perry, Conrad – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
The present article investigates how phonotactic rules constrain oral reading in the Russian language. The pronunciation of letters in Russian is regular and consistent, but it is subject to substantial phonotactic influence: the position of a phoneme and its phonological context within a word can alter its pronunciation. In Part 1 of the article,…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Russian, Pronunciation, Comparative Analysis
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Mak, Barley S. Y.; Cheung, Alan C. K.; Guo, Xin; Abrami, Philip C.; Wade, Anne – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
The current paper examined the effects of A Balanced Reading Approach for Children Always Designed to Achieve Best Results for All (ABRA), a web-based literacy programme developed by the the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance (CSLP) at Concordia University, on primary school children in Hong Kong. The participants were 249 Primary 1…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness
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Ho, Fuk-chuen; Siegel, Linda – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
This paper consists of three studies. The first study aimed to identify sub-types of students with learning disabilities in reading. Based on the dual-route model of reading, words may be read using either a lexical (words are recognized as wholes) or a sub-lexical (words are recognized through grapheme-phoneme correspondence) procedure. Castles…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chinese, Word Recognition, Learning Disabilities
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Wai, Nicole; Chan, Ying; Zhang, Kaili Chen – International Journal of Special Education, 2014
This study examines the effectiveness of five spelling strategies used to teach junior secondary school students with dyslexia. Participants were 30 secondary school teachers in Hong Kong. The teachers commented on five spelling strategies: the phonological strategy, an integration of phonological and orthographical strategies, the rule-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Dyslexia
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McDowell, Heather J.; Lorch, Marjorie Perlman – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2008
The current study investigates the phonemic awareness and nonword processing of English as a foreign language students from Hong Kong and Mainland China, with reference to factors considered the main facilitators of phonemic awareness: written language experience, spoken language experience, and metalinguistic training. The Mainland Chinese…
Descriptors: Phonology, Metalinguistics, Written Language, Oral Language