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Direct linkLi, Yixun; Wang, Min; Espinas, Daniel – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
Children can teach themselves new words via the process of independent text reading--previous studies on self-teaching heavily focused on learning to read in a first language (L1). Limited work to date has been devoted to second language learning (L2). The present study aimed to fill this gap by investigating self-teaching among English Language…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Word Recognition
Conners, Frances A.; Loveall, Susan J.; Moore, Marie S.; Hume, Laura E.; Maddox, Christopher D. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
The self-teaching hypothesis suggests that children learn orthographic structure of words through the experience of phonologically recoding them. The current study is an individual differences analysis of the self-teaching hypothesis. A total of 40 children in Grades 2 and 3 (7-9 years of age) completed tests of phonological recoding, word…
Descriptors: Identification, Grade 2, Individual Differences, Independent Study
Ricketts, Jessie; Bishop, Dorothy V. M.; Pimperton, Hannah; Nation, Kate – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2011
This study explores how children learn the meaning (semantics) and spelling patterns (orthography) of novel words encountered in story context. English-speaking children (N = 88) aged 7 to 8 years read 8 stories and each story contained 1 novel word repeated 4 times. Semantic cues were provided by the story context such that children could infer…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Children, Semantics, Spelling
