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Magiste, Edith – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1979
A cross-section method was used to study the developmental changes in elementary decoding and encoding processes of 163 Swedish-German bilingual students, whose length of residence in Sweden varied. It was demonstrated that decoding in two languages, expressed in terms of reaction time, develops faster than encoding. (SW)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Decoding (Reading)
Peer reviewedDefior, Sylvia; And Others – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1996
Examines effects of several lexical and sublexical variables (lexical category and frequency, syllabic structure, word length) in reading acquisition in a transparent language--Spanish. Compares effects of variables in 140 normal and poor young readers. Finds that all variables produced a significant effect on the number of errors made by the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Decoding (Reading), Elementary Education, Error Analysis (Language)
