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Leong, Che Kan – Elementary School Journal, 2009
A sample of 141 Canadian children in grades 3 through 6 wrote to dictation 24 short sentences sampling 90 lexical items representing 10 inflectional morphological categories to study their relation to the written spelling of 40 sight words. The children were encouraged in 3, 30-minute teaching sessions to use multiple strategies of retrieval,…
Descriptors: Sentences, Spelling, Phonemes, Morphology (Languages)
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Leong, Che Kan; Cheng, Pui Wan; Tan, Li Hai – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2005
This study investigated the effect of phonological sensitivity of two comparable groups of grades 4 and 5 Chinese children, one a Putonghua-speaking group ("n" = 77) from Beijing and the other a Cantonese-speaking group ("n" = 80) from Hong Kong on English and Chinese pseudoword reading. It was hypothesized that the Beijing…
Descriptors: Language Role, Rhyme, Phonemes, Reading