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Gray, Shelley; Lancaster, Hope; Alt, Mary; Hogan, Tiffany P.; Green, Samuel; Levy, Roy; Cowan, Nelson – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: We investigated four theoretically based latent variable models of word learning in young school-age children. Method: One hundred sixty-seven English-speaking second graders with typical development from three U.S. states participated. They completed five different tasks designed to assess children's creation, storage, retrieval, and…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Expressive Language
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Chai, Zhen; Vail, Cynthia O.; Ayres, Kevin M. – Journal of Special Education, 2015
This investigation evaluated the effects of using an iPad application to teach young children with developmental delays to receptively identify initial phonemes through 0- to 5-s constant time delay procedures in the context of a multiple-probe design across three sets of behaviors and replicated across three students. The dependent variable was…
Descriptors: Young Children, Disabilities, Courseware, Investigations
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Sun-Alperin, M. Kendra; Wang, Min – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
Previous cross-language research has focused on L1 phonological processing and its relation to L2 reading. Less extensive is the research on the effect that L1 orthographic processing skill has on L2 reading and spelling. This study was designed to investigate how reading and spelling acquisition in English (L2) is influenced by phonological and…
Descriptors: Spelling, Language Research, Grade 2, Language Acquisition
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De Sousa, Diana Soares; Greenop, Kirston; Fry, Jessica – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
Background: Emergent bilingual Zulu-English speaking children in South Africa have spoken but no written proficiency in Zulu (L1), yet are required to learn to spell English (L2) via English-only literacy instruction. Little research exists on emergent bilingual's phonological awareness (PA) and spelling development, with no L1 formal literacy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Spelling, Phonemes
Scanlon, Donna M.; Anderson, Kimberly L.; Sweeney, Joan M. – Guilford Publications, 2010
This book presents a research-supported framework for early literacy instruction that aligns with multi-tiered response-to-intervention (RTI) models. The book focuses on giving teachers a better understanding of literacy development and how to effectively support children as they begin to read and write. The authors' interactive strategies…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Reading Difficulties, Early Intervention, Oral Language
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Kandel, Sonia; Valdois, Sylviane – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2006
This study used a copying task to examine spelling acquisition in French and Spanish from a perception and action perspective. Experiment 1 compared French and Spanish-speaking monolingual children's performance. Experiment 2 analysed the behaviour of bilingual children when copying words in French and Spanish. Gaze lift analysis showed that in…
Descriptors: French, Spanish Speaking, Visual Perception, Monolingualism