NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing 616 to 630 of 2,581 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Pullen, Paige Cullen; Lane, Holly B. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2016
Manipulative objects have long been an essential tool in the development of mathematics knowledge and skills. A growing body of evidence suggests using manipulative letters for decoding practice is an also an effective method for teaching reading, particularly in improving the phonological and decoding skills of students at risk for reading…
Descriptors: Manipulative Materials, Learning Disabilities, Decoding (Reading), Reading Fluency
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Dynia, Jaclyn M.; Brock, Matthew E.; Logan, Jessica A.; Justice, Laura M.; Kaderavek, Joan N. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2016
Many children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) struggle with reading. An increased focus on emergent literacy skills--particularly print knowledge--might improve later reading outcomes. We analyzed longitudinal measures of print knowledge (i.e., alphabet knowledge and print-concept knowledge) for 35 preschoolers with ASD relative to a sample of…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Comparative Analysis, Reading Difficulties
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Testolin, Alberto; Stoianov, Ivilin; Sperduti, Alessandro; Zorzi, Marco – Cognitive Science, 2016
Learning the structure of event sequences is a ubiquitous problem in cognition and particularly in language. One possible solution is to learn a probabilistic generative model of sequences that allows making predictions about upcoming events. Though appealing from a neurobiological standpoint, this approach is typically not pursued in…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Neurological Organization, Models, Probability
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Pagán, Ascensión; Blythe, Hazel I.; Liversedge, Simon P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Although previous research has shown that letter position information for the first letter of a parafoveal word is encoded less flexibly than internal word beginning letters (Johnson, Perea & Rayner, 2007; White et al., 2008), it is not clear how positional encoding operates over the initial trigram in English. This experiment explored the…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Experimental Psychology, Reading Processes
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
McBride, Catherine Alexandra – Educational Psychology Review, 2016
Some aspects of Chinese literacy development do not conform to patterns of literacy development in alphabetic orthographies. Four are highlighted here. First, semantic radicals are one aspect of Chinese characters that have no analogy to alphabetic orthographies. Second, the unreliability of phonological cues in Chinese along with the fact that…
Descriptors: Chinese, Language Acquisition, Alphabets, Orthographic Symbols
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Land, Sandra – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 2016
Automaticity, or instant recognition of combinations of letters as units of language, is essential for proficient reading in any language. The article explores automaticity amongst competent adult first-language readers of isiZulu, and the factors associated with it or its opposite - active decoding. Whilst the transparent spelling patterns of…
Descriptors: African Languages, Reading Processes, Adults, Native Language
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Kral, Inge; Schwab, R. G. – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2016
If young adults in remote Indigenous Australian communities are to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to participate effectively in mature roles in their own and the wider community, then educators will need to pay attention not only to the provision of schooling and formal adult-literacy tuition, but also to how language, literacy, and…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Adult Literacy
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Roux, Sebastien; McKeeff, Thomas J.; Grosjacques, Geraldine; Afonso, Olivia; Kandel, Sonia – Cognition, 2013
Written production studies investigating central processing have ignored research on the peripheral components of movement execution, and vice versa. This study attempts to integrate both approaches and provide evidence that central and peripheral processes interact during word production. French participants wrote regular words (e.g. FORME),…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Handwriting, Alphabets, Spelling
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Zhang, Lan; Treiman, Rebecca – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2015
One influential theory of literacy development, the constructivist perspective, claims that young children believe that writing represents meaning directly and that the appearance of a written word should reflect characteristics of its referent. There has not been strong evidence supporting this idea, however. Circumventing several methodological…
Descriptors: Phonology, Spelling, Constructivism (Learning), Semantics
Bengochea, Alain; Justice, Laura M.; Hijlkema, Maria J. – Grantee Submission, 2015
This study serves as an initial inquiry regarding the early print knowledge of emergent bilingual preschool-age children living in an Indigenous community in Mexico. In this research, we examine various dimensions of print knowledge with Yucatec Maya-Spanish bilingual children for whom one of their languages (Yucatec Maya) is seldom seen in print…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mayan Languages, Spanish, Bilingualism
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Fernandes, Tânia; Vale, Ana P.; Martins, Bruno; Morais, José; Kolinsky, Régine – Developmental Science, 2014
To clarify the link between anomalous letter processing and developmental dyslexia, we examined the impact of surrounding contours on letter vs. pseudo-letter processing by three groups of children--phonological dyslexics and two controls, one matched for chronological age, the other for reading level--and three groups of adults differing by…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Alphabets, Dyslexia, Adult Literacy
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Treiman, Rebecca; Gordon, Jessica; Boada, Richard; Peterson, Robin L.; Pennington, Bruce F. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2014
Reversal errors play a prominent role in theories of reading disability. We examined reversal errors in the writing of letters by 5- to 6-year-old children. Of the 130 children, 92 had a history of difficulty in producing speech sounds, a risk factor for reading problems. Children were more likely to reverse letter forms that face left, such as…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Alphabets, Error Patterns, Young Children
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2021
This study investigates the differential effects of the iPad on first and second language learning by Saudi children in the home environment. The subjects consisted of 78 parents and 118 children. The children were grouped into: 1-6 years old (young children in kindergarten and pre-school); 7- 9 years (grades 1-3); and 10-12 years (grades 4-6).…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Handheld Devices, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Elben, Judy; Nicholson, Tom – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2017
The main purpose of this study was to examine whether the age at which children start to learn to read affects their later progress. The study was conducted in Zürich, Switzerland, and compared a first grade class in a local school with two first grade classes in a Montessori school. It was found that although the Montessori children had an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Alphabets, Kindergarten, Grade 1
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Sénéchal, Monique – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
The goal was to assess the role of invented spelling to subsequent reading and spelling as proposed by the Nested Skills Model of Early Literacy Acquisition. 107 English-speaking children were tested at the beginning of kindergarten and grade 1, and at the end of grade 1. The findings provided support for the proposed model. First, the role played…
Descriptors: Spelling, Invented Spelling, Kindergarten, Grade 1
Pages: 1  |  ...  |  38  |  39  |  40  |  41  |  42  |  43  |  44  |  45  |  46  |  ...  |  173