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Learning to Read in a Shallow Orthography: The Effect of Letter Knowledge Acquisition
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Sarris, Menelaos – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
The present study examined the strategies used by Greek novice readers in the initial phases of reading acquisition. Fifty (50) children were assessed at four successive testing periods throughout 1st grade of Primary School. Thus, 21 boys (42%) and 29 girls (58%) participated in this study. Their mean age at the beginning of the study was 74.43…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Alphabets, Greek, Grade 1
Differences in Oral Language Growth between Children with and without Literacy Difficulties: Evidence from Early Phases of Learning to Read and Spell in Greek
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Kargiotidis, Apostolos; Grigorakis, Ioannis; Mouzaki, Angeliki; Manolitsis, George – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2021
The present study examined oral language growth differences in a sample of 256 Greek-speaking children with and without literacy difficulties (LD), during the first two elementary grades. Measures of vocabulary, phonological awareness (PA), morphological awareness (MA), and rapid automatized naming (RAN) were administered in both grades for the…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Vocabulary Development, Elementary School Teachers, Phonological Awareness
Oral Reading Fluency and Prosody: A Preliminary Analysis of the Greek Language
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Sarris, Menelaos; Dimakos, Ioannis C. – Themes in Science and Technology Education, 2015
This article presents results from an initial investigation of Greek oral reading fluency and prosody. Although currently held perspectives consider reading the product of reading decoding and reading comprehension, there is enough evidence (both Greek and foreign) to suggest that other variables may affect reading, as well. Such variables include…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Greek, Oral Reading, Reading Fluency
The Literacy Profile of Greek Precocious Readers: A Follow-Up Study
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Tafa, Eufimia; Manolitsis, George – Journal of Research in Reading, 2012
The aim of this follow-up study was to examine the progress made by 13 Greek-speaking precocious readers in phonological awareness, reading and spelling from the fourth to sixth grades of primary education, and to compare their progress with that of 11 nonprecocious reader classmates. It was hypothesised that because of the linguistic…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Comparative Analysis, High Achievement, Spelling
Reading and Visual Processing in Greek Dyslexic Children: An Eye-Movement Study
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Hatzidaki, Anna; Gianneli, Maria; Petrakis, Eftichis; Makaronas, Nikolaos; Aslanides, Ioannis M. – Dyslexia, 2011
We examined the impact of the effects of dyslexia on various processing and cognitive components (e.g., reading speed and accuracy) in a language with high phonological and orthographic consistency. Greek dyslexic children were compared with a chronological age-matched group on tasks that tested participants' phonological and orthographic…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Dyslexia, Phonological Awareness, Human Body
The Effect of Articulatory Suppression on Greek Children's Reading of Greek.
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Porpodas, Costas D. – Educational Psychology, 1986
Investigates the role of phonological recoding in third graders' reading of Greek. Revealed a disturbing effect of articulatory suppression on subjects' reading latencies and text retention. Suggested that subjects' (1) reading of text was partly based on prelexical phonological representation and (2) text retention depended partly on a…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Greek, Inner Speech (Subvocal), Phonology