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Acha, Joana; Rodriguez, Nuria; Perea, Manuel – Journal of Research in Reading, 2023
Background: Letter knowledge is crucial in the first stages of reading development. It supports learning letter-sound mappings and the identification of the letters that make up words. Previous studies have investigated the longitudinal impact of early letter knowledge on children's further word reading abilities. This study employed an artificial…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Foreign Countries, Reading Skills
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Lázaro, Miguel; Acha, Joana; de la Rosa, Saray; García, Seila; Sainz, Javier – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
This study was designed to examine the developmental course of the suffix frequency effect and its role in the development of automatic morpho-lexical access. In Spanish, a highly transparent language from an orthographic point of view, this effect has been shown to be facilitative in adults, but the evidence with children is still inconclusive. A…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Suffixes, Adults, Children
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Lallier, Marie; Acha, Joana; Carreiras, Manuel – Developmental Science, 2016
This study investigates whether orthographic consistency and transparency of languages have an impact on the development of reading strategies and reading sub-skills (i.e. phonemic awareness and visual attention span) in bilingual children. We evaluated 21 French (opaque)-Basque (transparent) bilingual children and 21 Spanish (transparent)-Basque…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, French, Spanish, Languages