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Peer reviewedGoswami, Usha – Annals of Dyslexia, 2002
This article presents a theoretical overview at the cognitive level of the role of phonological awareness in reading development and developmental dyslexia across languages. It is argued that the primary deficit in developmental dyslexia in all languages lies in representing speech sounds: a deficit in phonological representation. (Contains…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Elementary Secondary Education, Etiology, Language Acquisition
Direct linkGoswami, Usha; Ziegler, Johannes C.; Richardson, Ulla – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2005
Within alphabetic languages, spelling-to-sound consistency can differ dramatically. For example, English and German are very similar in their phonological and orthographic structure but not in their consistency. In English the letter "a" is pronounced differently in the words "bank," "ball," and "park,"…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, German, Reading Instruction, Phonology
