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Kucera, Miloš – Journal of Pedagogy, 2010
Writing is often considered secondary to the spoken language, as it is only coded sound-by-sound. But other scholars have demonstrated that writing is similar to "arithmetic": a cognitive structuring, a shift to the meta-level ("for the eye"). "Handwriting" (referred to here as the cursive writing in the sense of…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Writing (Composition), Foreign Countries, Literacy Education
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Caravolas, Marketa; Landerl, Karin – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2010
Effects of syllable structure and of alphabetic reading skills on the development of phoneme awareness were investigated in a longitudinal study. Awareness of phonemes in syllable onsets and codas was examined in first graders speaking Czech (n = 45) and German (n = 33). Czech children showed higher awareness of phonemes in onsets than in codas,…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Syllables, Phonemes, Reading Skills