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A Cross-Linguistic Comparison of Phonological Awareness and Word Recognition in Turkish and English.
Peer reviewedOktay, Ayla; Aktan, Ebru – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2002
Compared speech of kindergartners and first-graders from Turkey and America to investigate how characteristics of their spoken languages affect development of phonological awareness and how the relationship between spoken language and orthography affect phonological awareness and word recognition. Results suggest that characteristics of a spoken…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Decoding (Reading)
Peer reviewedOney, Banu; Durgunoglu, Aydin Yucesan – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1997
Investigates early literacy acquisition in Turkish with its phonologically transparent orthography and regular letter-sound correspondences. Findings reveal that such orthography fosters the early development of word recognition skills and that phonological awareness contributes to word recognition in the early stages of reading acquisition. (33…
Descriptors: Child Language, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
