Background: Studies focusing on reading errors can help to understand how children learn to read and to structure key components of reading instruction. However, no prior studies have examined which letters might be a greater source of difficulty for beginning readers in Spanish. Aims: First, to examine the pattern of reading errors in beginning…

The English-to-Haitian Creole (HC) dictionary defines about 10,000 English words in common usage, and was intended to help improve communication between HC native speakers and the English-speaking community. An introduction, in both English and HC, details the origins and sources for the dictionary. Two additional preliminary sections provide…

A reading instructor interested in reliving the experience of learning to read for the first time attempted to read "Androcles and the Lion" in Shavian Alphabet. The would-be reader of Shavian faces a page of hooks and slants completely unfamiliar, but there is no translation problem. As soon as the reader can pronounce out loud the…

Describes an alphabetic process for cuing readers to speak the three dimensions of sound: fundamental frequency, duration, and intensity. (RB)

This article discusses the definition, classification, etymology and history, formation and the use of acronyms, and provides a list of the most common acronyms currently in use. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

Concludes that speed in identifying letters and graphonemes correlates highly with reading achievement. (RB)

Author described efforts to modernize a system of writing, extremely difficult to teach and to learn, and assessed the benefits of changing from traditional characters to a Latin alphabet including the cost that would be involved: the separation of modern Chinese writing from the heritage of the past. (Editor/RK)

A Russian method of teaching beginning reading using auditory discrimination of phonemes training was shown to be superior to two American methods. (JH)

Four experiments investigated the phenomenon of letter migration, the tendency of readers to assign letters from one word to another appearing in close proximity. The experiments, which involved college undergraduate students, revealed several properties of letter migration, including the following: (1) migrations are more frequent when the words…

One method of computing the optimum size of lettering for slides and TV title cards. (Author)

The purpose of the present experiment was to examine the effects of input variation upon recall performance in relation to two specific issues derived from the perceptual regrouping hypothesis. (Author)

Philologist, archaeologist, and historian, Dr. Gordon has unlocked mysteries of ancient Mediterranean civilizations through the study of pre-Biblical and Biblical language and culture. In this article he examined the development, limits and advantages of our modern alphabet. (Editor/RK)

THE 19 KOREAN FOLK TALES PRESENTED IN KOREAN ORTHOGRAPHY IN THIS READER ARE DESIGNED AS READING MATERIAL FOR ELEMENTARY- AND INTERMEDIATE-LEVEL STUDENTS OF KOREAN. EACH SELECTION IS PREFACED BY AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION AND FOLLOWED BY A PHONEMIC TRANSLITERATION WITH INTERLINEAR GLOSSES IN ENGLISH. THE ORTHOGRAPHY USED HERE FOLLOWS SAMUEL MARTIN'S…

Ten randomly picked children of prekindergarten age participated in a study that focused on whether feature analysis can be used as an aid in the recognition of the alphabet. The five children in the control group were introduced to the letters as a whole, while the five children in the experimental group were introduced to the whole letters but…

In this study, written compositions were obtained from each of the elementary students during the four years of testing. The students were shown silent movies--thereby eliminating any possibility of providing spelling clues--and were then asked to write their compositions explaining how the movie made them feel or what they say in the movie. The…