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Rahbari, Noriyeh; Senechal, Monique – Developmental Psychology, 2010
We investigated the reading and spelling development of 140 Persian children attending Grades 1-4 in Iran. Persian has very consistent letter-sound correspondences, but it varies in transparency because 3 of its 6 vowel phonemes are not marked with letters. Persian also varies in spelling consistency because 6 phonemes have more than one…
Descriptors: Spelling, Phonemes, Foreign Countries, Grade 4
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Rahbari, Noriyeh; Senechal, Monique; Arab-Moghaddam, Narges – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2007
The main objective of the present study was to examine the contribution of phonological and orthographic skills to Persian reading and spelling. The Persian language is of interest because it has very consistent grapheme-to-phoneme correspondences, but somewhat inconsistent phoneme-to-grapheme correspondences. Reading, spelling, phonological, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Grade 2, Monolingualism