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Ho, Wai-Ching; And Others – 1972
To test the effects of teaching inner-city black children to read in kindergarten and first grade through the initial teaching alphabet, i.t.a. and traditional orthography (TO) groups were compared on their comprehension of single words, short sentences, and related skills. At the first grade level, reading, writing, and oral language skills were…
Descriptors: Black Students, Grade 1, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Kindergarten
Trost, David McRoberts-Adair – 1971
The purpose of this study was to determine whether children learning to read in the initial teaching alphabet (i.t.a.) and traditional orthography (TO) differ in general attitudes toward reading, in fluency in written expression, and in reading vocabulary and comprehension at the end of their second-grade school experience. Further, this study…
Descriptors: Initial Teaching Alphabet, Intelligence Quotient, Reading, Reading Achievement
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Leong, C. K. – 1976
This paper discusses some psycholinguistic and psychological bases of learning to read in two apparently disparate writing systems, English and Chinese. As an alphabet, English orthography has "more reason than rhyme"; relational units and markers (e.g., "hens" and "hence") are important. The combinatory properties of…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Beginning Reading, Chinese, English
Hanna, Paul R.; And Others – 1966
This study sought to analyze phoneme/grapheme correspondences in a 17,310-entry word list drawn from the Thorndike-Lorge word list and Merriam-Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary. Phase one of the research, which has also been reported separately, also sought to determine how closely American-English orthography approximates the alphabetic…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Graphemes, Letters (Alphabet), North American English
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Katz, Leonard – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1977
Experiments with 81 college students and 48 fifth graders investigated the role of one form of intra-word orthographic redundancy--the characteristic asymmetric spatial distributions of letters of the alphabet across serial positions within words. Adults were sensitive to letter positional distributions, as were fifth graders who were good…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Higher Education, Intermediate Grades, Letters (Alphabet)
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Taylor, David A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1978
This research was concerned with the way people identify and categorize letters and digits; the author attempted to answer which of these processes occurs first, with the focus on whether there is a logically determined sequence involved. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Classification, Experimental Psychology, Identification, Letters (Alphabet)
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Johnston, James C. – Cognitive Psychology, 1978
Experiments tested the predictions that words are perceived more accurately in strongly constraining word contexts than in weakly constraining word contexts, and that a strong perceptual advantage would be present for letters in words vs. letters alone or in unrelated-letter strings. Several alternative theories of word perception are discussed.…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Guessing (Tests), Higher Education, Learning Theories
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Summerell, Sally; Brannigan, Gary G. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1977
Compared was the relative effectiveness of a phonetic approach (Distar) and use of a special alphabet (Johnny Right-to-Read) to reading instruction for 24 second grade children with low levels of reading readiness. (Author/SBH)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Exceptional Child Research, Grade 2, Phonetics
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Taub, Harvey A. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1977
Three experiments were performed with young and aged female volunteers (mean ages approximately 25 and 70 years respectively) to evaluate coding ability with ordered and free recall tasks. (BD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Learning Processes, Letters (Alphabet), Mediation Theory
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Habib, Mahmoud – Computers and Education, 1988
Describes a proposed computer system with voice synthesis for reading Arabic and English textual information for the visually impaired that is an alternative to Braille. The conversion of textual alphabet character information to geometrical shape symbols is explained, and peripheral equipment--including scanners and special keyboards--is…
Descriptors: Arabic, Bilingual Instructional Materials, Blindness, Braille
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Treiman, Rebecca – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Reports results of four experiments testing whether syllable structure affects children's performance in phonemic analysis tasks and in other reading related tasks. The experiments were motivated by theories that syllables consist of an onset (initial consonant or consonant cluster) and a rime (vowel and any following consonants). (AS/Author)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Children, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
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Timko, Henry G. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1983
Forty kindergarten children were randomly assigned to four conditions to investigate the influence of criterion level on the discrimination of highly confusable letters in beginning reading. Half the subjects were exposed to simultaneous, and half to successive discriminations. The groups were equally divided as to criterion level, i.e., four vs.…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Beginning Reading, Kindergarten, Letters (Alphabet)
Jakopin, Primoz – 1995
EVA, a text processing tool designed to be self-contained and useful for a variety of languages, is described briefly, and its extensive coded character set is illustrated. Features, specifications, and database functions are noted. Its application in development of a Slovenian literary dictionary is also described. (MSE)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Computational Linguistics, Computer Software, Dictionaries
Klein, Shanna L. – 2000
One of the goals of UNESCO is to act as a clearinghouse on information about early childhood education activities in order to promote the development of young children. Noting that many children become frustrated with adults when they try to explain their feelings, this monograph of the UNESCO Education Sector introduces the "Alpha-Soruses"…
Descriptors: Communications, Dinosaurs, Early Childhood Education, Emotional Development
Ediger, Marlow – 1999
This paper considers the Initial Teaching Alphabet (ITA), long out of use in the United States. It was developed by Sir James Pittman in England in 1959 as a plan of reading instruction with a simplified phoneme-grapheme correspondence that stressed consistency between symbol and sound. The paper lists the advantages and disadvantages of the ITA…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Graduate Students, Initial Teaching Alphabet, Instructional Effectiveness
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