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Peer reviewedEhri, Linnea C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1975
Superior lexical awareness among readers is attributed to their experience with the printed correlates of spoken language. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Language, Prereading Experience, Preschool Children, Primary Education
Peer reviewedEhri, Linnea C.; Wilce, Lee S. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1980
Results of a study in which first graders learned ten unfamiliar function words in two different formats indicated that sentence readers learned more about the syntactic and semantic identities of function words, whereas list readers remembered their orthographic identities better and could pronounce the words faster and more accurately in…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Function Words, Learning Modalities, Phonics
Download full textEhri, Linnea C. – 1977
This study reveals that children from the age of four to six years are unable to segment meaningful sentences into component words. The experiment investigated three hypotheses of performance on a word-learning task for beginning readers and prereaders. Readers and prereaders were taught five words as oral responses, each word paired with a…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Basic Vocabulary, Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education
