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Fletcher-Flinn, Claire M.; Thompson, G. Brian; Yamada, Megumi; Naka, Makiko – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
In research on the acquisition of reading, there have been cross-orthographic comparisons made between some alphabetic scripts and a few syllabic scripts. In the present study of Japanese Grade 1 children learning to read hiragana, a syllabic script, there was a comparison of assessments of oral word reading accuracy levels recorded by scorers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Beginning Reading
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Bitan, Tali; Booth, James R. – Cognitive Science, 2012
Improvement in performance after the end of the training session, termed "Offline improvement," has been shown in procedural learning tasks. We examined whether Offline improvement in learning a novel orthography depends on the type of reading instruction. Forty-eight adults received multisession training in reading nonsense words, written in an…
Descriptors: Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction, Orthographic Symbols, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
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Ely, Robert; Adams, Anne E. – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2012
One of the most significant steps in learning algebra is understanding the change in the role of letters in mathematical expressions from unknowns to variables. We describe the historical development of this change in usage, starting with the ancient use of mathematical unknowns, detailing several important changes in practice that allowed for the…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, History
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Drouin, Michelle; Horner, Sherri L.; Sondergeld, Toni A. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2012
In this study, we used Rasch model analyses to examine (1) the unidimensionality of the alphabet knowledge construct and (2) the relative difficulty of different alphabet knowledge tasks (uppercase letter recognition, names, and sounds, and lowercase letter names) within a sample of preschoolers (n=335). Rasch analysis showed that the four…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Orthographic Symbols, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children
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Puranik, Cynthia S.; Lonigan, Christopher J. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2012
The goals of this study were twofold: first, to examine whether preschool children's name-writing proficiency differentiated them on other emergent reading and writing tasks, and second, to examine the effect of name length on preschool children's emergent literacy skills including alphabet knowledge and spelling. In Study 1, a range of emergent…
Descriptors: Spelling, Alphabets, Preschool Children, Emergent Literacy
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Chetail, Fabienne; Content, Alain – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
The processes and the cues determining the orthographic structure of polysyllabic words remain far from clear. In the present study, we investigated the role of letter category (consonant vs. vowels) in the perceptual organization of letter strings. In the syllabic counting task, participants were presented with written words matched for the…
Descriptors: Vowels, Phonemes, Language Processing, Alphabets
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Snel, M. J.; Aarnoutse, C. A. J.; Terwel, J.; van Leeuwe, J. F. J.; van der Veld, W. M. – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2016
Early detection of reading problems is important to prevent an enduring lag in reading skills. We studied the relationship between speed of word recognition (after six months of grade 1 education) and four kindergarten pre-literacy skills: letter knowledge, phonological awareness and naming speed for both digits and letters. Our sample consisted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Word Recognition, Reading Instruction, Elementary School Students
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Roebuck, Hettie; Freigang, Claudia; Barry, Johanna G. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2016
Purpose: Continuous performance tasks (CPTs) are used to measure individual differences in sustained attention. Many different stimuli have been used as response targets without consideration of their impact on task performance. Here, we compared CPT performance in typically developing adults and children to assess the role of stimulus processing…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Task Analysis, Adults, Children
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McConnell, Scott; Wackerle-Hollman, Alisha – AERA Open, 2016
This study evaluated the extent to which existing measures met standards for a continuous suite of general outcome measures (GOMs) assessing children's early literacy from preschool through early elementary school. The study assessed 316 children from age 3 years (2 years prekindergarten) through Grade 2, with 8 to 10 measures of language,…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children
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Bernstein, Katie A. – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2017
This paper explores the idea that young children's emergent literacy practices can be tools for mediating peer interaction, and that, therefore, literacy, even in its earliest stages, can support oral language development, particularly for emergent bilinguals. The paper draws on data collected during a year-long ethnographic study of 11 Nepali-…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Emergent Literacy, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning
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Scheithauer, Mindy C.; Tiger, Jeffrey H.; Miller, Sarah J. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2013
Scheithauer and Tiger (2012) created an efficient computerized program that taught 4 sighted college students to select text letters when presented with visual depictions of braille alphabetic characters and resulted in the emergence of some braille reading. The current study extended these results to a larger sample (n?=?81) and compared the…
Descriptors: Braille, College Students, Computer Uses in Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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Gupta, Renu – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2013
Although schoolchildren in India perform poorly in reading/writing tests, little attention is paid to early literacy instruction. This article describes literacy instruction in an English-medium school; through classroom observations and children's artifacts, it documents what four children in Lower KG understand about literacy in English, a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emergent Literacy, Literacy Education, Classroom Observation Techniques
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Vergara-Martinez, Marta; Perea, Manuel; Gomez, Pablo; Swaab, Tamara Y. – Brain and Language, 2013
The encoding of letter position is a key aspect in all recently proposed models of visual-word recognition. We analyzed the impact of lexical frequency on letter position assignment by examining the temporal dynamics of lexical activation induced by pseudowords extracted from words of different frequencies. For each word (e.g., BRIDGE), we created…
Descriptors: Semantics, Word Recognition, Stimuli, Diagnostic Tests
Whitney, Carol; Marton, Yuval – Online Submission, 2013
The SERIOL model of orthographic analysis proposed mechanisms for converting visual input into a serial encoding of letter order, which involved hemisphere-specific processing at the retinotopic level. As a test of SERIOL predictions, we conducted a consonant trigram-identification experiment, where the trigrams were briefly presented at various…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Word Recognition, Models, Orthographic Symbols
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Ihmeideh, Fathi – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2015
The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of dramatic play centre (DPC) on promoting the development of children's early writing skills in the Jordanian context. It also intends to investigate the forms of children's writing skills that emerge through the use of dramatic play. Observations and interviews were conducted to obtain…
Descriptors: Drama, Play, Writing Skills, Foreign Countries
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