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Learning to Read in a Shallow Orthography: The Effect of Letter Knowledge Acquisition
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Sarris, Menelaos – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2022
The present study examined the strategies used by Greek novice readers in the initial phases of reading acquisition. Fifty (50) children were assessed at four successive testing periods throughout 1st grade of Primary School. Thus, 21 boys (42%) and 29 girls (58%) participated in this study. Their mean age at the beginning of the study was 74.43…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Alphabets, Greek, Grade 1
Effects of an Interventional Music Program on Learning Skills of Primary-School Students with Dyslexia
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Bouloukou, Foteini; Marin-Diaz, Veronica; Jimenez-Fanjul, N?elia – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2021
Research has shown that children with dyslexia have difficulties perceiving rhythm, and that musical training can enhance their learning skills. The purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of an interventional music-training program based on rhythm-perception enhancement, within the curriculum of the music course in Greece.…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Dyslexia, Students with Disabilities
Spelling Performance and Semantic Understanding of Compound Words by Greek Students with Learning Disabilities
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Tsesmeli, Styliani N.; Koutselaki, Despoina – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2013
The study aimed to investigate the spelling performance and the semantic understanding of compound words by 103 Greek primary school children (first through sixth grade). The experimental group comprised of 25 children with spelling difficulties and compared with a control group of 78 children of typical development. Children were asked to spell…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Disabilities, Spelling, Semantics
The Role of Vocabulary in the Context of the Simple View of Reading
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Protopapas, Athanassios; Mouzaki, Angeliki; Sideridis, Georgios D.; Kotsolakou, Areti; Simos, Panagiotis G. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2013
The simple view of reading posits that reading comprehension can be decomposed into a print-specific component (concerning decoding and sight word reading) and a language comprehension component (concerning verbal and metalinguistic skills not related to print). One might properly consider lexical skills, indexed by vocabulary measures, part of…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension, Decoding (Reading)
The Components of the Simple View of Reading: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis
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Protopapas, Athanassios; Simos, Panagiotis G.; Sideridis, Georgios D.; Mouzaki, Angeliki – Reading Psychology, 2012
The simple view of reading admits two components in accounting for individual differences in reading comprehension: a print-dependent component related to decoding and word identification, and a print-independent one related to oral language comprehension. It has been debated whether word or nonword reading is a better index of the print-dependent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Greek, Reading Processes, Decoding (Reading)
Development of Lexical Mediation in the Relation between Reading Comprehension and Word Reading Skills in Greek
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Protopapas, Athanassios; Sideridis, Georgios D.; Mouzaki, Angeliki; Simos, Panagiotis G. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2007
This study focuses on the shared variance between reading comprehension and word-level reading skills in a population of 534 Greek children in Grades 2 through 4. The correlations between measures of word and pseudoword accuracy and fluency, on the one hand, and vocabulary and comprehension skills, on the other, were sizeable and stable or…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Reading Comprehension, Grades (Scholastic), Greek