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Development of Emergent Literacy Skills of a Child with Hearing Loss: A Longitudinal Case Study
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Karasu, Halise Pelin – Educational Studies, 2020
This longitudinal case study aimed to investigate the development of emergent literacy skills of a child with hearing loss was carried out in a research and application centre which provides full-time day education using an auditory-oral approach for children with hearing loss. The study focuses on a child with profound hearing loss who started…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Hearing Impairments, Kindergarten, Grade 1
Using Adaptive CAI to Supplement Literacy Development in Early Learners
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Shamir, Haya; Yoder, Erik; Pocklington, David; Feehan, Kathryn – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2018
This study investigates the impact of using an adaptive computer-assisted instruction (CAI) program in early childhood education. The Waterford Early Reading Program (ERP) is a CAI program that was assigned to kindergarten and first grade students in a school district in Texas for the 2015-2016 school year. The Texas Primary Reading Inventory…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Early Childhood Education, Reading Programs, Kindergarten
Preschool Classroom Conversations as Long-Term Resources for Second Language and Literacy Acquisition
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Aukrust, Vibeke Grover; Rydland, Veslemoy – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2011
This study investigated relations between preschool talk exposure and immigrant first graders' second language literacy and oral skills outcomes. Participants in the study were 25 children with Turkish as their first language and Norwegian as their second, attending various multilingual and ethnically diverse preschool classrooms in Norway and…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Speech Communication, Phonics
A Randomized Controlled Trial Study of the ABRACADABRA Reading Intervention Program in Grade 1
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Savage, Robert S.; Abrami, Philip; Hipps, Geoffrey; Deault, Louise – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
This study reports a randomized controlled trial evaluation of a computer-based balanced literacy intervention, ABRACADABRA (http://grover.concordia.ca/abra/version1/abracadabra.html). Children (N = 144) in Grade 1 were exposed either to computer activities for word analysis, text comprehension, and fluency, alongside shared stories (experimental…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Intervention, Reading Fluency
The Interrelationship of Phonemic Segmentation, Auditory Abstraction, and Word Recognition.
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Beach, Sara Ann – 1990
A study examined the construct and predictive validity of phonemic awareness to determine the strength of the relationship between phonemic segmentation and auditory abstraction and to determine which of the two measures provided the best prediction of word recognition ability. Data were gathered from 65 first-grade children from 2 public…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Grade 1, Listening Comprehension, Multiple Regression Analysis
Who Benefits from Training in Linguistic Awareness in the First Grade, and What Components Show Training Effects?
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Poskiparta, Elisa; Niemi, Pekka; Vauras, Marja – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1999
Twenty-six Finnish at-risk first-graders received practice in linguistic awareness. When compared to controls on phonological awareness, listening comprehension, and WISC-R scores, the intervention group showed a more rapid building-up of phonological awareness, especially phoneme-blending ability, as well as superiority in word recognition,…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Early Intervention, Foreign Countries, Grade 1