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Friend, Angela; Olson, Richard K. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2008
Spelling errors in the Wide Range Achievement Test were analyzed for 77 pairs of children, each of which included one older child with spelling disability (SD) and one spelling-level-matched younger child with normal spelling ability from the Colorado Learning Disabilities Research Center database. Spelling error analysis consisted of a percent…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Spelling, Learning Disabilities, Phonology
Al-Jarf, Reima Sado – Online Submission, 2005
Thirty six EFL freshman students at the College of Languages and Translation, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia were given a dictation, a listening comprehension test and a decoding test. The purpose of the study was to find out whether EFL freshmen students' spelling ability correlates with their listening comprehension and decoding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Listening Comprehension, Decoding (Reading)
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Guron, Louise Miller; Lundberg, Ingvar – Dyslexia, 2004
A comparative investigation of word reading efficiency indicates that different strategies may be used by English and Swedish early readers. In a first study, 328 native English speakers from UK Years 3 and 6 completed a pen-and-paper word recognition task (the "Wordchains" test). Results were analysed for frequency and type of errors…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Word Recognition, Primary Education, Decoding (Reading)