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Direct linkHutzler, Florian; Ziegler, Johannes C.; Perry, Conrad; Wimmer, Heinz; Zorzi, Marco – Cognition, 2004
Learning to read a relatively irregular orthography, such as English, is harder and takes longer than learning to read a relatively regular orthography, such as German. At the end of grade 1, the difference in reading performance on a simple set of words and nonwords is quite dramatic. Whereas children using regular orthographies are already close…
Descriptors: German, English, Reading Achievement, Language Acquisition
Wang, Min; Perfetti, Charles A.; Liu, Ying – Cognition, 2005
This study investigated cross-language and writing system relationship in biliteracy acquisition of children learning to read two different writing systems--Chinese and English. Forty-six Mandarin-speaking children were tested for their first language (Chinese-L1) and second language (English-L2) reading skills. Comparable experiments in Chinese…
Descriptors: Written Language, Phonology, Writing Skills, Reading Skills
