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Kaitlynn D. Fraze – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Children with Down syndrome exhibit unique learning characteristics that impact their educational progress. Despite this, research on effective reading interventions specifically tailored for this population remains limited. The present study aimed to find the best ways to teach teaching foundational reading skills to children with Down syndrome.…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Down Syndrome, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills
Clauss, Sarah Joan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study analyzes the relationship between phonemic proficiency and orthographic learning in first and second-grade students. It is established in the empirical literature that phonemic skills play a crucial role in word-level reading. What is not thoroughly understood is why some children learn and remember words more efficiently than others.…
Descriptors: Correlation, Grade 1, Grade 2, Elementary School Students
Manqian Zhao – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The rapid growth of Mandarin Chinese and English dual-language (DL) programs and the differences between these two languages have fostered the need to investigate the early literacy performance of young students in a Mandarin/English DL program. This study used the interactive transfer framework (Chung et al., 2019) to understand the Mandarin and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Literacy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Kung, Melody – ProQuest LLC, 2016
There is a lack of knowledge regarding reading development and predictors of reading development for Language Minority students (LMs) such as Asians. In particular, the research base is limited regarding the effectiveness of different reading instructional emphases for Asian LMs. The purpose of the present study was to examine whether language…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Minority Group Students, Language Minorities, Asian Americans
Mount-Cors, Mary Faith – ProQuest LLC, 2010
An economics-driven discourse about early literacy (Trudell, 2009) in sub-Saharan African settings often includes a list of reasons for poor levels of literacy that remain mired in deficit thinking or a deficiencies model in which the problem lies within the non-literate people themselves. Meanwhile, the established post-colonial educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, African Languages, Feminism, Literacy Education
Laugle, Kelly M. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Research suggests that development of the alphabetic principle is a critical factor in learning to recognize words and becoming a successful reader. The alphabetic principle encompasses both the understanding that relationships exist between letters and sounds and the application of these relationships to reading words. This study investigated the…
Descriptors: Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Decoding (Reading), Kindergarten, Grade 1