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de Graaff, Saskia; Hasselman, Fred; Verhoeven, Ludo; Bosman, Anna M. T. – Learning and Instruction, 2011
The aim of the present study was to provide more insight in the relative difficulty of four tasks testing phonemic awareness: (a) blending, (b) isolation, (c) segmentation, and (d) deletion. At the same time the roles of phoneme position and phoneme class were taken into account in a fully balanced way. To this purpose, 141 kindergartners were…
Descriptors: Phonology, Phonemic Awareness, Indo European Languages, Kindergarten
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de Graaff, Saskia; Hasselman, Fred; Bosman, Anna M. T.; Verhoeven, Ludo – Learning and Instruction, 2008
This study investigated whether task instructions affect sound-isolation performance. The effects of phoneme class and phoneme position were also assessed. Two hundred Dutch kindergartners were presented with a free-sound-isolation task and its constrained counterparts: an initial-, a middle-, and a final-sound-isolation task. All tasks contained…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Phonology, Phonemic Awareness, Indo European Languages
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de Graaff, Saskia; Verhoeven, Ludo; Bosman, Anna M. T.; Hasselman, Fred – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
Background: The conclusion from a vast literature on literacy acquisition is that letter knowledge is one of the best predictors of literacy development. The question of the best way to teach children letter sounds has not, as yet, been answered satisfactorily. Aims: The aim of this study was the evaluation of a computer training program using…
Descriptors: Mnemonics, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Preschool Evaluation