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Schmalz, Xenia; Robidoux, Serje; Castles, Anne; Marinus, Eva – Annals of Dyslexia, 2020
Learning to read in most alphabetic orthographies requires not only the acquisition of simple grapheme-phoneme correspondences (GPCs) but also the acquisition of context-sensitive GPCs, where surrounding letters change a grapheme's pronunciation. We aimed to explore the use and development of simple GPCs (e.g. a [right arrow] /ae/) and…
Descriptors: Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, English, German, Beginning Reading
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Pritchard, Stephen C.; Coltheart, Max; Palethorpe, Sallyanne; Castles, Anne – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
Two prominent dual-route computational models of reading aloud are the dual-route cascaded (DRC) model, and the connectionist dual-process plus (CDP+) model. While sharing similarly designed lexical routes, the two models differ greatly in their respective nonlexical route architecture, such that they often differ on nonword pronunciation. Neither…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Research, Learning Theories, Vocabulary
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Kohnen, Saskia; Nickels, Lyndsey; Castles, Anne – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2009
In this paper, we discuss a variety of spelling tests that are used to assess developmental spelling difficulties. We differentiate between tests that are valuable tools to monitor spelling development and spelling tests that should be used to further assess children who are not making sufficient progress in the mainstream classroom. We recommend…
Descriptors: Spelling, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Special Needs Students