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Ijalba, Elizabeth; Obler, Loraine K. – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2015
The Spanish writing system has consistent grapheme-to-phoneme correspondences (GPC), rendering it more transparent than English. We compared first-language (L1) orthographic transparency on how monolingual English- and Spanish-readers learned a novel writing system with a 1:1 (LT) and a 1:2 (LO) GPC. Our dependent variables were learning time,…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Spanish
Kerek, Eugenia; Niemi, Pekka – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2009
The unique structure of Russian orthography may influence the organization and acquisition of reading skills in Russian. The present review examines phonemic-graphemic correspondences in Russian orthography and discusses its grain-size units and possible difficulties for beginning readers and writers. Russian orthography is governed by a…
Descriptors: Reading Research, Reading Skills, Russian, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence