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Early Prediction of Reading Development in Japanese Hiragana and Kanji: A Longitudinal Study from Kindergarten to Grade 1
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Tanji, Takayuki; Inoue, Tomohiro – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
We examined the cognitive predictors of early word reading skills in Japanese syllabic Hiragana and morphographic Kanji. Eighty-three Japanese kindergarten children (M age = 75.6 months, SD = 3.4) were assessed on nonverbal IQ, vocabulary, phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming (RAN), phonological memory, morphological awareness, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables, Early Reading, Reading Skills
A Multivariate Twin Study of Early Literacy in Japanese "Kana"
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Fujisawa, Keiko K.; Wadsworth, Sally J.; Kakihana, Shinichiro; Olson, Richard K.; DeFries, John C.; Byrne, Brian; Ando, Juko – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
This first Japanese twin study of early literacy development investigated the extent to which genetic and environmental factors influence individual differences in prereading skills in 238 pairs of twins at 42 months of age. Twin pairs were individually tested on measures of phonological awareness, "kana" letter name/sound knowledge,…
Descriptors: Twins, Preschool Children, Emergent Literacy, Early Reading