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Holopainen, Leena; Hoang, Nhi; Koch, Arno; Kofler, Doris – Annals of Dyslexia, 2020
Previous studies have showed that early problems with word decoding can lead to poor performance in text reading and comprehension and suggest that poor readers often struggle with reading deficits throughout their school years. Therefore, early detection of those children who are at risk for slow reading development and/or who belong to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Difficulties, Finno Ugric Languages, German
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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