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Chow, Bonnie Wing-Yin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
This study investigated the roles of associative learning and linguistic knowledge, in particular phonological and semantic knowledge, in word learning of Chinese readers using a cross-sectional design. Extending past research in associative learning using existing Chinese characters as word stimuli, this study resorted to pseudowords and invented…
Descriptors: Chinese, Associative Learning, Semantics, Grade 2
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Nielsen, Anne-Mette Veber; Juul, Holger – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2016
The present study examined phoneme awareness, phonological short term memory, letter knowledge, rapid automatized naming (RAN), and visual-verbal paired associate learning (PAL) as longitudinal predictors of spelling skills in an early phase (Grade 2) and a later phase (Grade 5) of development in a sample of 140 children learning to spell in the…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Phonemic Awareness, Longitudinal Studies, Elementary School Students
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Hilte, Maartje; Reitsma, Pieter – Journal of Research in Reading, 2011
The present study examines the effect of activating the connection between meaning and phonology in spelling exercises in second-grade spellers (n=41; 8 years and 3 months). In computer-based exercises in a within-subject design, semantic and neutral descriptions were contrasted and provided either before the process of spelling or in feedback.…
Descriptors: Spelling, Phonology, Semantics, Spelling Instruction