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Language General and Specific Factors in Letter Acquisition: Considering Child and Letter Characteristics in Korean
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Kim, Young-Suk; Petscher, Yaacov – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
In the present study we investigated the extent to which child level factors (i.e., phonological awareness) and letter level factors (i.e., letter name structures, letter frequency, visual similarity, and letter order) contributed to letter name and sound acquisition, using data from Korean-speaking children (N = 169) and cross-classified…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Korean, Children, Phonological Awareness
Considering Linguistic and Orthographic Features in Early Literacy Acquisition: Evidence from Korean
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Kim, Young-Suk – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2011
This study investigated (1) the role of syllable awareness in word reading and spelling after accounting for the effects of print-related skills (letter-name and letter-sound knowledge, and rapid serial naming), and (2) unique contributions of orthographic, semantic (vocabulary and morphological awareness), phonological, and print-related…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Spelling, Syllables, Phonemes
Componential Skills in Early Spelling Development in Korean
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Kim, Young-Suk – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2010
The present study investigated multiple componential skills for conventional spelling using data from 5-year-old Korean children (N = 77). Error analysis showed that 5-year-old Korean children primarily employed a phonological transcription strategy in spelling despite the absence of systematic and explicit instruction on phonological strategies…
Descriptors: Spelling, Language Skills, Korean, Young Children
The Foundation of Literacy Skills in Korean: The Relationship between Letter-Name Knowledge and Phonological Awareness and Their Relative Contribution to Literacy Skills
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Kim, Young-Suk – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2009
This study examined the relative contribution of letter-name knowledge and phonological awareness to literacy skills and the relationship between letter-name knowledge and phonological awareness, using data from Korean-speaking preschoolers. The results revealed that although both letter-name knowledge and phonological awareness made unique…
Descriptors: Korean, Literacy, Phonological Awareness, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Cat in the Hat or Cat in the Cap? An Investigation of the Developmental Trajectories of Phonological Awareness for Korean Children
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Kim, Young-Suk – Journal of Research in Reading, 2008
This study investigated trajectories of Korean children's growth in the awareness of four phonological units--"syllable," "body," "rime" and "phoneme"--over time, by following a sample of 215 children over a period of 15 months, beginning at their first year of preschool and collecting four waves of data. Much of the existing research suggests…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Rhyme, Korean, Emergent Literacy
Phonological Awareness and Literacy Skills in Korean: An Examination of the Unique Role of Body-Coda Units
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Kim, Young-Suk – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2007
This study examines a salient intrasyllabic phonological unit in Korean, the body-coda unit, its role in literacy skills in Korean, and a possible source of the salience of body-coda units in the spoken language. Data were collected from Korean-speaking, monolingual beginning readers (41 kindergarteners, 40 first graders). The results indicate…
Descriptors: Speech, Syllables, Phonemes, Phonological Awareness