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Kamowski-Shakibai, Margaret T.; Cairns, Helen Smith – Journal of Child Language, 2016
This study investigates the development of metalinguistic skills, particularly ambiguity detection, and whether training accelerates this development for prereaders in kindergarten (5;5-6;6). It is the first to compare homophone detection with lexically ambiguous sentence detection in which the same homophones appear. The experimental group…
Descriptors: Child Language, Kindergarten, Preschool Children, Language Acquisition
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Schiff, Rachel; Nuri Ben-Shushan, Yohi; Ben-Artzi, Elisheva – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2017
This study assessed the effect of metacognitive instruction on the spelling and word reading of Hebrew-speaking children with specific language impairment (SLI). Participants were 67 kindergarteners with SLI in a supported learning context. Children were classified into three spelling instruction groups: (a) metalinguistic instruction (ML), (b) ML…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Spelling, Kindergarten, Reading Ability