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Writing "Dinosaur" Large and "Mosquito" Small: Prephonological Spellers' Use of Semantic Information
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Direct linkZhang, Lan; Treiman, Rebecca – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2015
One influential theory of literacy development, the constructivist perspective, claims that young children believe that writing represents meaning directly and that the appearance of a written word should reflect characteristics of its referent. There has not been strong evidence supporting this idea, however. Circumventing several methodological…
Descriptors: Phonology, Spelling, Constructivism (Learning), Semantics
