The Speech Code and Learning to Read.

Shankweiler, Donald; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ220336

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1979-Nov

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The Speech Code and Learning to Read.

Shankweiler, Donald; And Others

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, v5 n6 p531-45 Nov 1979

Second-grade students' reading proficiency was studied by determining the influence of rhyming or nonrhyming items on their recall of random letter strings, using visual and auditory presentations. Good and poor readers differed in their use of phonetic coding in working memory. (MH)

Descriptors: Aural Learning, Cognitive Processes, Grade 2, High Achievement, Low Ability Students, Memory, Phonetics, Primary Education, Reading Ability, Reading Processes, Recall (Psychology), Rhyme, Visual Learning

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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