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Calet, Nuria; Gutiérrez-Palma, Nicolás; Defior, Sylvia – Journal of Research in Reading, 2015
The importance of prosodic elements is recognised in most definitions of fluency. Although speed and accuracy have been typically considered the constituents of reading fluency, prosody is emerging as an additional component. The relevance of prosody in comprehension is increasingly recognised in the latest studies. The purpose of this research is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spanish Speaking, Spanish, Reading Fluency
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Herrera, Lucia; Lorenzo, Oswaldo; Defior, Sylvia; Fernandez-Smith, Gerard; Costa-Giomi, Eugenia – Psychology of Music, 2011
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a music training program on children's phonological awareness and naming speed in Spanish. Participants were preschool children whose first language was either Spanish (n = 45) or Tamazight ( n = 52), a Berber dialect spoken in Morocco's Rif area. The two-year pretest/posttest study…
Descriptors: Reading Readiness, Music, Music Activities, Phonology