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Asbjornsen, Arve E.; Obrzut, John E.; Eikeland, Ole-Johan; Manger, Terje – Dyslexia, 2010
The present study focussed on the determinants for effective solving of the Wordchains Test (WCT) in a normative sample of Norwegian junior high-school students. Forty voluntary participants from a rural school district in Western Norway completed the WCT along with tests of general intellectual capacity, single word and non-word reading, auditory…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Short Term Memory, Word Recognition, Multiple Regression Analysis
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Nergard-Nilssen, Trude – Dyslexia, 2006
This study provides detailed descriptions of the reading impairments in four 10-year-old Norwegian children with dyslexia. In all four cases reading comprehension was well in advance of the children's slow and inaccurate word-recognition skills. Phonological decoding (as assessed by pseudohomophone and nonword reading) appeared relatively…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Phonemes, Dyslexia, Norwegian
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Braten, Ivar; Lie, Alfred; Andreassen, Rune; Olaussen, Bodil S. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1999
Finds that home literacy environment influenced leisure-time reading, and that leisure-time reading contributed to orthographic processing skill beyond the prediction provided by phonological processing skill. Finds that home literacy environment influenced orthographic processing skill indirectly by its influence on leisure-time reading. Shows…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Family Environment, Foreign Countries, Grade 3