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Bonifacci, Paola; Lombardo, Giuseppina; Pedrinazzi, Jessica; Terracina, Francesco; Palladino, Paola – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2020
This study compared language minority bilingual (LMB) second graders with two groups of monolingual peers (with comparable low SES or with high SES) in a set of literacy skills (reading fluency, spelling, reading and oral comprehension) tested in the target school language (L2 for bilinguals). The aim was to disentangle the roles of bilingualism…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Monolingualism
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Holopainen, Leena; Koch, Arno; Hakkarainen, Airi; Kofler, Doris – Reading Psychology, 2020
We investigated the predictive power of cognitive skills and background variables of 769 first and second grade children learning to read two orthographically different languages Finnish and German in three countries Finland, Germany and Italy. Main results from stepwise regression models showed that in all countries word reading at first grade…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Predictor Variables, Reading Skills
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Colombo, Lucia; Deguchi, Chizuru; Boureux, Magali – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
Italian has regular spelling-sound correspondences; however, assignment of lexical stress is unpredictable. Sensitivity to stress neighborhood information was investigated by constructing three types of three-syllabic nonwords: nonwords with word-endings characterized by a strong neighborhood of dominant stress words (dominant), nonwords with…
Descriptors: Italian, Suprasegmentals, Syllables, Experiments
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Orsolini, Margherita; Fanari, Rachele; Tosi, Valeria; De Nigris, Barbara; Carrieri, Roberto – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2006
In this longitudinal study we analyse the early phases of reading development in Italian and explore the transition from phonological to lexical reading. A group of 28 Italian children was tested in four phases. Language and cognitive skills were first assessed in the preschool. Reading performance was then tested in three different sessions, in…
Descriptors: Italian, Reading Skills, Skill Development, Thinking Skills