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A Cross-Linguistic Comparison of Phonological Awareness and Word Recognition in Turkish and English.

Oktay, Ayla; Aktan, Ebru – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2002
Compared speech of kindergartners and first-graders from Turkey and America to investigate how characteristics of their spoken languages affect development of phonological awareness and how the relationship between spoken language and orthography affect phonological awareness and word recognition. Results suggest that characteristics of a spoken…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Decoding (Reading)