Associations between morphological awareness and literacy skills in German primary school children: the roles of grade level, phonological processing and vocabulary
AbstractStudies investigating relations between morphological awareness and literacy in German, a language with a rather transparent but asymmetric orthography, are sparse. Little is known about the role of grade level for these relationships and of their relative strength compared to those between other language-related variables and literacy skills. This cross-sectional study was conducted with German-speaking second-, third- and fourth-graders (n of final sample ≥ 85 per grade). Morphological awareness tasks required the production of inflections, derivations and compounds. Additionally, phonological processing, ...
Source: Reading and Writing - February 10, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Specific predictors of length and frequency effects in German beginning readers: testing component processes of sublexical and lexical reading in the DRC
AbstractReading a word requires several component processes. The dual route cascaded (DRC) model provides a characterization of these component processes and their involvement in different reading routes. We tested how relevant precursor skills associated with these component processes predict the use of the sublexical and lexical route in beginning readers of a transparent orthography. More than 100 German first graders performed a battery of tasks tapping into precursor skills associated with the DRC components. Using factor analysis, we first verified that the tasks can be attributed to three sets of skills, capturing v...
Source: Reading and Writing - February 3, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Teacher practices for teaching writing in Greek primary schools
AbstractDeveloping writing skills is a central part of the education curriculum in many countries, yet numerous children have difficulties in producing written texts. To our knowledge there is no systematic study examining the ways in which Greek teachers adapt their writing instruction strategies to accommodate the children ’s needs. The aim of the present study was to identify the approaches teachers employ while teaching writing in Greek primary schools and to examine the nature and frequency of these different aspects of teaching writing. We replicated and extended the Dockrell et al. (Read Writ Interdiscip J 29(3 ):...
Source: Reading and Writing - February 2, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Body –object interaction effect in word recognition and its relationship with screen time in Chinese children
AbstractA sample of 144 s- and 150 fourth-grade Chinese children was recruited to investigate the influence of body–object interactions (BOIs) on word recognition, i.e., how easily they could interact physically with each word’s referent. The moderation on this relationship of children’s screen time for entertainme nt purposes (i.e., the viewing or use of any device with a screen) was also examined. In a lexical decision task, the children were asked to judge whether each item was a real Chinese word. Each real word was assigned a BOI rating score. Model analysis showed that the BOI rating was a significant pr edic...
Source: Reading and Writing - January 29, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
How syntactic awareness might influence reading comprehension in English –French bilingual children
This study evaluates the extent to which syntactic awareness contributes to reading comprehension in English –French bilinguals, considering both the potential for a direct relation, as well as an indirect one, through word reading. Participants were 146 first-grade students enrolled in early French immersion programs in Canada. While the children received all school instruction in French, English was th eir stronger language and the language of the broader community. Given this dual language context, we examined relations from syntactic awareness in each of English and French to children’s French reading comprehension...
Source: Reading and Writing - January 28, 2022 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
