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Manjula Prabhu; Prabhu Shwetha; Haralakatta Shivananjappa Somashekara – Reading Psychology, 2024
The role of phonological awareness and alphabet knowledge in learning to read is well established in mono-lingual English speakers. However, it is under explored in the context of English Language Learners (ELL), especially in regions like India where the native language differs phonologically and orthographically from the target literate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Preschool Children, Grade 1
Hill, Susan – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2009
The purpose of this study was to explore the connections between young children's oral language vocabulary and children's reading of written language in beginning reading books. Oral language has been viewed as the foundation for emergent reading development as it provides the semantic base, syntactic base and phonological base for successfully…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Beginning Reading, Semantics, Written Language
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Nag, Sonali – Journal of Research in Reading, 2007
Acquisition of orthographic knowledge and phonemic sensitivity are processes that are central to early reading development in several languages. The language-specific characteristics of the alphasyllabaries ( Bright, 1996), however, challenge the constructs of orthographic knowledge and phonemic sensitivity as discussed in the context of…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Early Reading, Phonemics, Dravidian Languages
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Silva, Reena; Padakannaya, Prakash – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2007
The present study is about the early literacy skills among children in the lower kindergarten in India. The study seeks to identify the areas where inadequacy exists in the Indian scenario where the medium of instruction is not the first language/mother tongue of the child. The study found that children were proficient in the skills taught in…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Early Reading, Phonological Awareness, Foreign Countries