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Kenn Apel; Victoria S. Henbest; Yaacov Petscher – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: We examined whether affix type and base word transparency explained variation in third- through sixth-grade students' performance on a number of morphological awareness tasks. Method: Third- through sixth-grade students (n > 500 at each grade) completed morphological awareness tasks from the Morphological Awareness Test for Reading and…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Schiff, Rachel; Levy-Shimon, Shani; Sasson, Ayelet; Kimel, Ella; Ravid, Dorit – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
This study examined affix letter spelling among 6th grade Hebrew-speaking children with dyslexia compared with chronologically age-matched and reading level-matched controls. As different languages are characterized by multiple dimensions of affix spelling complexity, we specifically targeted the following unique dimensions relevant to Hebrew: (1)…
Descriptors: Spelling, Difficulty Level, Dyslexia, Morphemes
Kenn Apel; Victoria S. Henbest; Yaacov Petscher – Grantee Submission, 2022
Purpose: We examined whether affix type and base word transparency explained variation in third- through sixth-grade students' performance on a number of morphological awareness tasks. Method: Third- through sixth-grade students (n > 500 at each grade) completed morphological awareness tasks from the Morphological Awareness Test for Reading and…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Van Der Ven, Sanne; de Bree, Elise – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2019
Spelling is influenced by implicit cues, but less is known about variability in this reliance. We assessed whether the influence of three implicit cues on Dutch past tense spelling was moderated by grade, literacy, and format. An Auditory infinitive, Written infinitive, and Picture+cloze format was completed by 68 third-graders and 47…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Morphemes, Spelling, Cues
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Anastasiou, Dimitris; Griva, Eleni – English Language Teaching, 2012
The paper presents a descriptive account of a Morphological Processing Spelling Approach (MPSA), which substitutes a more conventional spelling instruction, proposed for developing primary school students' metamorphological knowledge and strategies in English as a foreign language. For the application of the MPSA, seven dictation texts were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Ganske, Kathy – Guilford Publications, 2008
This book provides tools to enhance upper-level spelling and vocabulary instruction, and features more than 120 reproducible sorting activities and games. It offers suggestions for helping students build mastery of vowel patterns, syllable structure, syllable stress, consonant and vowel alternations, compound words, prefixes, suffixes, and word…
Descriptors: Sentences, Spelling, Syllables, Vowels
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Verhoeven, Ludo; Schreuder, Rob; Baayen, R. Harald – Learning and Instruction, 2006
Besides phonotactic principles, orthographies entail graphotactic rules for which the reader must convert a phonological representation on the basis of spelling adaptation rules. In the present study, the learnability of such rules will be investigated with reference to Dutch. Although Dutch orthography can be considered highly regular, there are…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Spelling, Written Language, Indo European Languages