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Hevia-Tuero, Carmen; Russak, Susie; Suárez-Coalla, Paz – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
English orthography differs from that of other European languages in terms of complexity and regularity. This difference may impact the development of accurate spelling in English, especially when it is learned as a foreign language in school. In this study we wanted to explore spelling development patterns of Spanish speaking children learning…
Descriptors: Spelling, Foreign Countries, Writing (Composition), Writing Skills
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Rodriguez, Nuria; Acha, Joana – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
This study presents the results of a cross-sectional reading and spelling assessment conducted among 118 Spanish children in 3rd, 4th and 5th grade. The first aim was to explore whether children's use of orthographic knowledge was modulated by lexical variables--word frequency and orthographic neighborhood--or sublexical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4
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Van Reybroeck, Marie; De Rom, Margot – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
Children with dyslexia face persistent difficulties in acquiring reading skills, often making guessing errors characterized by the replacement of a word by an orthographic neighbour. These reading errors could be related to inhibition problems within the reading task. Previous studies examining inhibition skills in dyslexic children led to unclear…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Reading Difficulties, Error Patterns, Inhibition
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Rahbari, Noriyeh – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
The objective of the present study is to examine the error patterns for Persian reading and spelling when controlling for the complexity level of words. A sample of 140 children attending Grades 1-4 in Iran read and spelled the same words that differed in reading transparency (transparent vs. opaque) and spelling consistency (monographic vs.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Error Patterns, Reading Skills
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Protopapas, Athanassios; Fakou, Aikaterini; Drakopoulou, Styliani; Skaloumbakas, Christos; Mouzaki, Angeliki – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2013
In this study we propose a classification system for spelling errors and determine the most common spelling difficulties of Greek children with and without dyslexia. Spelling skills of 542 children from the general population and 44 children with dyslexia, Grades 3-4 and 7, were assessed with a dictated common word list and age-appropriate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spelling, Classification, Error Patterns