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Sanchez, Monique; Magnan, Annie; Ecalle, Jean – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2012
The present study had two aims: (1) to examine kindergarten (Kg) and first grade (G1) children's early word structure knowledge, that is letter, phonological, morphological, and orthographic knowledge, and (2) to provide evidence of specific links between these various types of knowledge and word reading and spelling performance assessed in G1. A…
Descriptors: Spelling, Grade 1, Kindergarten, Correlation
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Negro, Isabelle; Genelot, Sophie – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2012
This study aims to explain how the practice of two languages (French and Creole) in French overseas departments affects the first educational competencies acquired by children. The students' performance in both languages was investigated at the beginning of kindergarten, and their reading capacities were measured at the end of Grade 1. The data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Data Analysis, Academic Achievement, Language Skills
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Fernandes, Sandra; Ventura, Paulo; Querido, Luis; Morais, Jose – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2008
We investigated the initial development of reading and spelling in European Portuguese. First-graders, tested in February and June, had to read and spell words and pseudowords. In February there were regularity and graphemic complexity effects, indicating that these children relied on grapheme-phoneme conversion. The lexicality effect found in…
Descriptors: Spelling, Grade 1, Foreign Countries, Written Language
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Asfaha, Yonas Mesfun; Kurvers, Jeanne; Kroon, Sjaak – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
The study investigated reading in four African languages that use either syllabic Ge'ez (Tigrinya and Tigre languages) or alphabetic Latin scripts (Kunama and Saho). A sample of 385 Grade 1 children were given letter knowledge, word reading, and spelling tasks to investigate differences at the script and language levels. Results showed that the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Reading Instruction, Syllables
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Wang, Min; Yang, Chen; Cheng, Chenxi – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
This study investigated the concurrent contributions of phonology, orthography, and morphology to biliteracy acquisition in 78 Grade 1 Chinese-English bilingual children. Conceptually comparable measures in English and Chinese tapping phonological, orthographic, and morphological awareness were administered. Word reading skill in English and…
Descriptors: Phonology, Morphology (Languages), Reading Skills, Grade 1
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Wang, Min; Cheng, Chenxi – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
We reported three experiments investigating subsyllabic unit preference in young Chinese children. In Experiment 1, a Chinese sound similarity judgment task was designed in which 48 pair of stimuli varied in terms of shared subsyllabic units (i.e., vowel, body, rime, onset-coda). Grade 1 Chinese-speaking monolingual children judged pairs with…
Descriptors: Speech, Oral Language, Preschool Children, Rhyme
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Sparks, Richard L.; Patton, Jon; Ganschow, Leonore; Humbach, Nancy – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
Fifty-four students were followed over 10 years beginning in first grade to determine best predictors of oral and written second language (L2) proficiency. Predictor variables included measures of first language (L1) skill administered in first through fifth grades, L1 academic aptitude, L2 aptitude (Modern Language Aptitude Test), and L2 affect…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Predictor Variables, Aptitude Tests, Decoding (Reading)
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Chiappe, Penny; Glaeser, Barbara; Ferko, Doreen – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
This study examined the roles of speech perception and phonological processing in reading and spelling acquisition for native and nonnative speakers of English in the 1st grade. The performance of 50 children (23 native English speakers and 27 native Korean speakers) was examined on tasks assessing reading and spelling, phonological processing,…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Spelling, Reading Skills, Oral Language