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Sohail, Juwairia; Sorenson Duncan, Tamara; Koh, Poh Wee; Deacon, S. Hélène; Chen, Xi – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
This study evaluates the extent to which syntactic awareness contributes to reading comprehension in English-French bilinguals, considering both the potential for a direct relation, as well as an indirect one, through word reading. Participants were 146 first-grade students enrolled in early French immersion programs in Canada. While the children…
Descriptors: French, Syntax, Metalinguistics, Immersion Programs
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Desrochers, Alain; Manolitsis, George; Gaudreau, Patrick; Georgiou, George – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
In the present study, we examined the role of morphological awareness in reading and spelling performance across three languages varying in orthographic consistency (English, French, and Greek), after controlling for the effects of phonological awareness and rapid automatized naming (RAN). One hundred fifty-nine English-speaking Canadian, 238…
Descriptors: Literacy, Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, Reading Fluency
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Laurent, Angelique; Martinot, Clara – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2010
The present study investigated the development of linguistic awareness in children exposed to the early learning of a second language in Grades 3-5 of primary school, i.e. between the ages of 8 and 10. The aim was to determine whether this bilingual experience enhanced the development of phonological awareness in beginning readers in a bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Phonological Awareness, French, Romance Languages