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Direct linkKolinsky, Regine; Verhaeghe, Arlette; Fernandes, Tania; Mengarda, Elias Jose; Grimm-Cabral, Loni; Morais, Jose – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2011
To examine whether enantiomorphy (i.e., the ability to discriminate lateral mirror images) is influenced by the acquisition of a written system that incorporates mirrored letters (e.g., b and d), unschooled illiterate adults were compared with people reading the Latin alphabet, namely, both schooled literate adults and unschooled adults…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Illiteracy, Latin, Visual Discrimination
Woodrome, Stacey E.; Johnson, Kathy E. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2009
Two studies were conducted to evaluate the extent to which visual discrimination (VisD) skills play a role in developing letter identification abilities, which are essential in learning to read. Results from a correlational analysis of 73 4- and 5-year-olds revealed a significant association between VisD and letter identification abilities, which…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Phonemics, Phonemic Awareness, Alphabets
Peer reviewedKing, Ethel M. – Reading Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Beginning Reading, Early Reading, Readiness
Download full textKING, ETHEL M.; MUEHL, SIEGMAR – 1967
AN OVERVIEW OF THE RESEARCH ON VISUAL DISCRIMINATION SHOWS A TREND FROM THE WHOLE-WORD VIEW TO A COMBINATION OF LETTER-DISCRIMINATION AND THE WHOLE-WORD METHOD. TEN STUDIES CITED IN THIS ARTICLE ATTEMPTED TO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS--(1) WOULD NONVERBAL STIMULI FACILITATE READING PERFORMANCE, (2) DO CHILDREN FOCUS ON THE SHAPE OF THE WORD OR…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Beginning Reading, Reading Readiness, Transfer of Training
Peer reviewedRupley, William H.; And Others – Reading World, 1979
Describes a study of the visual discrimination abilities of children who varied in their ability to recognize words. Indicates that visual discrimination skills of the type needed to discriminate between single artificial graphemes do not seem essential for the word recognition aspect of reading. (TJ)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Graphemes, Reading Instruction
PDF pending restorationCox, Diane K. – 1976
This study investigated the relation between field independence/field dependence (FI/FD) and reading success. One hundred kindergarten children from a predominantly white, middle-class community were administered a Portable Rod and Frame Test as a measure of cognitive style. The upper and lower 27% were identified and designated Field Dependent…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Reading Ability
Hyman, Joan S.; Cohen, S. Alan – 1974
The stimulus properties of the letters b, d, p, and q were investigated in an attempt to demonstrate that the common reversal of these letters by beginning readers is in part determined by the vertical aspect of the stimulus figure. One hundred eighty kindergarteners were randomly selected from a racially mixed population and randomly assigned to…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Kindergarten Children, Letters (Alphabet), Reading
Peer reviewedTimko, Henry G. – Visible Language, 1973
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Reading Ability, Reading Difficulty
Peer reviewedPalardy, J. Michael – Reading Improvement, 1991
Reviews selected instructional procedures in the four reading readiness skills that can be taught and learned: auditory discrimination, auditory comprehension, visual discrimination, and visual memory. Stresses that readiness skills are prerequisite to reading skills. (RS)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Listening Comprehension
Webber, Margaret Sharp – 1972
The purposes of this study were to determine (1) if it is possible to predict which children will develop word recognition deficits based on levels of articulation proficiency and auditory discrimination ability; (2) the effect of two different instructional approaches for beginning reading, phonics, and whole-word approach; and (3) if first grade…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Phonics
Kuchenbecker, Shari Young – 1972
The purpose of this 233-item annotated bibliography is to present relevant research addressing the primary subskills in the word decoding task. The topical areas of investigation are auditory discrimination, visual discrimination, auditory-visual integration, blending, and cognitive processing of information. An introduction and a cross-referenced…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Auditory Discrimination, Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading)
Williams, Joanna P. – 1970
Strategies children use when they recognize words were explored. To measure the effectiveness of two different methods of training children to attend to the critical features of letters, 40 first-grade urban children were presented two pairs of letters (similar and dissimilar) simultaneously or successively. Unexpectedly, it was found that with…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Beginning Reading, Kindergarten Children, Letters (Alphabet)
Brady, Nancy C.; McLean, Lee K. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1996
This study examined the discriminability of lexigrams versus printed words with eight adults with severe mental retardation. A match-to-sample teaching paradigm was used. Subjects discriminated lexigrams better than printed letters and were more successful at matching lexigrams to referent objects than matching printed words to referent objects.…
Descriptors: Adults, Beginning Reading, Discrimination Learning, Printed Materials
LOWELL, ROBERT E. – 1967
FOUR NULL HYPOTHESES WERE TESTED TO EVALUATE SELECTED READING READINESS TESTS AS PREDICTORS OF FIRST-GRADE READING ACHIEVEMENT. FIVE SCHOOLS IN THE BANGOR, MAINE, CITY SCHOOL SYSTEM WERE RANDOMLY CHOSEN. IN EACH SCHOOL, ONE CLASS USED THE EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM WHICH EMPHASIZED SUPPLEMENTARY VOCABULARY INSTRUCTION WITH READINESS TRAINING. ANOTHER…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Basic Vocabulary, Beginning Reading, Grade 1
KARRAKER, R.J. – 1968
RECENT RESEARCH ON THE DISCRIMINATION PROCESS INDICATES THAT ERRORLESS LEARNING CAN OCCUR IF STIMULI ARE CAREFULLY PROGRAMED SO THAT THEY ARE DISSIMILAR AND GRADUALLY BECOME MORE SIMILAR AS TRAINING PROCEEDS. TO ASSESS THIS APPROACH IN TEACHING THE LOWER- CASE LETTER B AND D WITH KINDERGARTEN SUBJECTS, TWO SETS OF STIMILI CONSTITUTED THE FIRST…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Discrimination Learning, Lateral Dominance, Mental Age
