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Pintus, Andrea; Bertolini, Chiara; Scipione, Lucia; Antonietti, Maja – International Journal of Educational Management, 2021
Purpose: This study investigates the construct validity and reliability of the Italian version of the Teachers' Self-Efficacy Scale (TSES) developed by Tschannen-Moran and Hoy (2001) and contributes to existing research aimed at exploring the elements and variables that influence teachers' self-efficacy levels. Design/methodology/approach: The…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Test Reliability, Italian, Test Construction
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Bonifacci, Paola; Lombardo, Giuseppina; Pedrinazzi, Jessica; Terracina, Francesco; Palladino, Paola – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2020
This study compared language minority bilingual (LMB) second graders with two groups of monolingual peers (with comparable low SES or with high SES) in a set of literacy skills (reading fluency, spelling, reading and oral comprehension) tested in the target school language (L2 for bilinguals). The aim was to disentangle the roles of bilingualism…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Monolingualism
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Arfé, Barbara; Zancato, Tamara – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2022
According to a language-integrated view of spelling development, learning to spell involves the same language-learning skills across alphabetic systems. A prediction based on this view is that the same spelling training should be equally effective for learning to spell in a shallow (Italian, native language) or an opaque (English, additional…
Descriptors: Spelling, Intervention, Teaching Methods, Italian
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Holopainen, Leena; Koch, Arno; Hakkarainen, Airi; Kofler, Doris – Reading Psychology, 2020
We investigated the predictive power of cognitive skills and background variables of 769 first and second grade children learning to read two orthographically different languages Finnish and German in three countries Finland, Germany and Italy. Main results from stepwise regression models showed that in all countries word reading at first grade…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Predictor Variables, Reading Skills
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Bigozzi, Lucia; Tarchi, Christian; Pinto, Giuliana – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate consistency in spelling skills across 2 different tasks of written production (dictation vs. composition) and stability of performance across 4 different grades. We assessed 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders' spelling performance through 4 tasks: 2 dictation tasks (passage and sentences) and 2 composition…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spelling, Reliability, Verbal Communication
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Colombo, Lucia; Deguchi, Chizuru; Boureux, Magali – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
Italian has regular spelling-sound correspondences; however, assignment of lexical stress is unpredictable. Sensitivity to stress neighborhood information was investigated by constructing three types of three-syllabic nonwords: nonwords with word-endings characterized by a strong neighborhood of dominant stress words (dominant), nonwords with…
Descriptors: Italian, Suprasegmentals, Syllables, Experiments
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De Angelis, Gessica – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2012
The present article examines the effect of population distribution on L1 (Italian) and L2 (German) acquisition in the multilingual context of South Tyrol, Italy. Population distribution is regarded as a central variable to assess the impact of two factors included in willingness to communicate (WTC) theory: (1) Fear of assimilation to the L2…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Native Speakers, Foreign Countries, Multilingualism
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Orsolini, Margherita; Fanari, Rachele; Tosi, Valeria; De Nigris, Barbara; Carrieri, Roberto – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2006
In this longitudinal study we analyse the early phases of reading development in Italian and explore the transition from phonological to lexical reading. A group of 28 Italian children was tested in four phases. Language and cognitive skills were first assessed in the preschool. Reading performance was then tested in three different sessions, in…
Descriptors: Italian, Reading Skills, Skill Development, Thinking Skills
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Cossu, Giuseppe; And Others – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1995
States that reading and written spelling skills for words and nonwords of varying length and orthographic complexity were investigated in normal Italian first and second graders. Finds that reading and written spelling are nonparallel processes and that developmental asynchrony reflects a partial structural independence of the two systems. (PA)
Descriptors: Grade 1, Grade 2, Italian, Primary Education
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Ferreiro, Emilia; Pontecorvo, Clotilde – Learning and Instruction, 1999
Studied the use of punctuation in children's early writings in connection with organization of the text. Collected 134 stories of second graders written in Spanish, Portuguese, or Italian. Children tried to make sense of writing conventions, including the use of punctuation, and some tried to distinguish the functions of punctuation marks. (SLD)
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Grade 2
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Ferragina, Anna Maria; Mustica, Giuseppina – Babel, 2006
International Grammar School was founded twenty years ago on the belief in the benefits of immersion language learning for children. It offers immersion second language learning in German, Italian, French, and Japanese which continues through kindergarten into the high school years. With language as the medium and not the object of learning,…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Second Language Learning, Bilingual Education, Immersion Programs
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction. – 1986
The guide presents content and techniques for teaching conversational Italian in the elementary grades. It contains an introductory section and 20 units for classroom instruction. The introduction includes notes on the overall objectives of the course, general guidelines on classroom procedure, and specific techniques for use of the materials…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Animals, Class Activities, Classroom Communication