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Sargiani, Renan de Almeida; Ehri, Linnea C.; Maluf, Maria Regina – Reading Research Quarterly, 2022
In this experiment, we examined whether beginning readers benefit more from grapheme-phoneme decoding (GPD) than from whole-syllable decoding (WSD) instruction in learning to read and write words. Sixty Brazilian Portuguese-speaking first graders (M age = 6 years 1 month) who knew letter names but could not read or write words were randomly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Reading, Reading Instruction, Decoding (Reading)
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Ocal, Turkan; Ehri, Linnea C. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
Studies have shown that children benefit from a spelling pronunciation strategy in remembering the spellings of words. The current study determined whether this strategy also helps adults learn to spell commonly misspelled words. Participants were native English speaking college students (N = 42), mean age 22.5 years (SD = 7.87). An experimental…
Descriptors: Spelling, Pronunciation, Learning Strategies, Native Language