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Luk, Gigi; Bialystok, Ellen – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
The study explores the relationship between phonological awareness and early reading for bilingual children learning to read in two languages that use different writing systems. Participants were 57 Cantonese-English bilingual 6-year-olds who were learning to read in both languages. The children completed cognitive measures, phonological awareness…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Phonological Awareness, Factor Analysis, English
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Guron, Louise Miller; Lundberg, Ingvar – Dyslexia, 2004
A comparative investigation of word reading efficiency indicates that different strategies may be used by English and Swedish early readers. In a first study, 328 native English speakers from UK Years 3 and 6 completed a pen-and-paper word recognition task (the "Wordchains" test). Results were analysed for frequency and type of errors…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Word Recognition, Primary Education, Decoding (Reading)
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Lomax, Richard G.; McGee, Lea M. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1987
Presents results of tested theoretical models of the development of print concepts and word reading. Indicates that children expand their knowledge in each of the following print components with age: print, graphic awareness, phonemic awareness, grapheme-phoneme correspondence knowledge, and word reading components. (NKA)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Decoding (Reading), Early Childhood Education, Early Reading