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van Weerdenburg, Marjolijn; Verhoeven, Ludo; van Balkom, Hans; Bosman, Anna – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2009
This study investigated the role of cognitive and language skills as predictors of early literacy skills in children with Specific Language Impairment. A range of cognitive and linguistic skills were assessed in a sample of 137 eight-year-old children with SLI at the beginning of the school year, and 6 months later on word decoding and reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Structural Equation Models, Linguistics, Language Impairments
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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
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Aarnoutse, Cor; van Leeuwe, Jan; Verhoeven, Ludo – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2005
The goal of this longitudinal study was to examine which skills in early literacy determine the development of word recognition, reading comprehension, and spelling in the 2nd grade of the elementary school. A cohort of pupils was followed and tested during the 2nd year of kindergarten and the beginning of the 1st and 2nd grade. It appeared that…
Descriptors: Young Children, Phonemes, Spelling, Reading Comprehension
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Verhoeven, Ludo; Schreuder, Rob; Baayen, R. Harald – Learning and Instruction, 2006
Besides phonotactic principles, orthographies entail graphotactic rules for which the reader must convert a phonological representation on the basis of spelling adaptation rules. In the present study, the learnability of such rules will be investigated with reference to Dutch. Although Dutch orthography can be considered highly regular, there are…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Spelling, Written Language, Indo European Languages
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Segers, Eliane; Verhoeven, Ludo – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2005
The present study examined the long-term effects of a computer intervention for the development of phonological awareness in Dutch kindergartners. Native Dutch and immigrant children worked with the software 15 min per week during one school year. Following a pretest - interim test - post-test - retention test design, the effects on rhyming,…
Descriptors: Retention (Psychology), Indo European Languages, Grade 1, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Segers, Eliane; Verhoeven, Ludo – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2004
Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to determine whether kindergarten children with specific language impairment (SLI) could develop phonological awareness skills through computer intervention and whether speech manipulation (i.e., slowing speech rate and enhancing transitions) in instruction produced additional learning. Method: The…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Intervention, Kindergarten, Language Impairments
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