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Calet, Nuria; Gutiérrez-Palma, Nicolás; Defior, Sylvia – Journal of Research in Reading, 2015
The importance of prosodic elements is recognised in most definitions of fluency. Although speed and accuracy have been typically considered the constituents of reading fluency, prosody is emerging as an additional component. The relevance of prosody in comprehension is increasingly recognised in the latest studies. The purpose of this research is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spanish Speaking, Spanish, Reading Fluency
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Caravolas, Markéta; Lervåg, Arne; Mikulajová, Marína; Defior, Sylvia; Seidlová-Málková, Gabriela; Hulme, Charles – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2019
The present study investigated the moderating role of orthographic consistency on the development of reading comprehension in four language groups (English, n = 179; Spanish, n = 188; Czech, n = 135; Slovak, n = 194) from kindergarten to Grade 2. In all languages, early variations in phoneme awareness/letter knowledge, rapid automatised naming,…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Longitudinal Studies, Reading Comprehension, Grade 2
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Defior, Sylvia; Jimenez-Fernandez, Gracia; Serrano, Francisca – Learning and Instruction, 2009
This study investigated how Spanish orthographic code complexities influence learning to spell. Word and pseudoword dictation tests were carried out by 208 first- to fourth-grade students. Items included the following orthographic code complexities: digraph, contextual effect, position effect, letter H, inconsistency, and stress mark. The results…
Descriptors: Spelling, Context Effect, Grade 1, Grade 4