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Teaching Beginners to Decode Consonant-Vowel Syllables Using Grapheme-Phoneme Subunits Facilitates Reading and Spelling as Compared with Teaching Whole-Syllable Decoding
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Sargiani, Renan de Almeida; Ehri, Linnea C.; Maluf, Maria Regina – Reading Research Quarterly, 2022
In this experiment, we examined whether beginning readers benefit more from grapheme-phoneme decoding (GPD) than from whole-syllable decoding (WSD) instruction in learning to read and write words. Sixty Brazilian Portuguese-speaking first graders (M age = 6 years 1 month) who knew letter names but could not read or write words were randomly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Reading, Reading Instruction, Decoding (Reading)
Phonological Development in Relation to Native Language and Literacy: Variations on a Theme in Six Alphabetic Orthographies
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Duncan, Lynne G.; Castro, Sao Luis; Defior, Sylvia; Seymour, Philip H. K.; Baillie, Sheila; Leybaert, Jacqueline; Mousty, Philippe; Genard, Nathalie; Sarris, Menelaos; Porpodas, Costas D.; Lund, Rannveig; Sigurosson, Baldur; Prainsdottir, Anna S.; Sucena, Ana; Serrano, Francisca – Cognition, 2013
Phonological development was assessed in six alphabetic orthographies (English, French, Greek, Icelandic, Portuguese and Spanish) at the beginning and end of the first year of reading instruction. The aim was to explore contrasting theoretical views regarding: the question of the availability of phonology at the outset of learning to read (Study…
Descriptors: Phonology, Language Acquisition, Native Language, Literacy