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The purpose of the present study was to examine the influence of some aspects of the Arabic phonological system on spelling
English words. In Study 1, the spelling performance of Arabic students from grades four and six was compared with English
students in cognate phoneme pairs which exist across both languages (/d/ and /t/), and pairs in which only one of the phonemes
exists in Arabic (/b/ and /p/, /f/ and /v/) using a spelling test which contained words with the target phonemes. The findings
showed that the Arabic participants performed similarly to the English participants on the phonemes /t/ and /d/, but they
tended to spell the phonemes /b/, /p/, /f/, and /v/ using their cognate pairs more often than the English participants did.
In Study 2, the spelling performance of Arabic students was compared across grades 4, 6, 8, and 10 for the same target phonemes.
The analyses showed no difference between the Arabic participants in how often they confused the target phonemes with their
cognate pairs across the different grade levels, except for the phonemes /p/ and /v/, for which the effect size was small.
The findings of this study demonstrate the importance of phonology in spelling, as well as the influence of the first language
on spelling in a second language. They also indicate that Arabic students continue to be dependent on phonological processes
when spelling English words even as they grow older. 相似文献
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This study examined English as a foreign language (EFL) spelling development amongst 233 fifth‐grade, eighth‐grade and 10th‐grade Hebrew first‐language speakers to examine effects of English orthographic exposure on spelling. Good and poor speller differences were examined regarding the acquisition of novel phonemes (/æ/, /Λ/ and //) and orthographic conventions (/ð/, /θ/, // and silent ‘e’). Hebrew measures included standardised spelling and orthographic and phonological tasks. Experimental English measures included real‐word and pseudoword spellings, orthographic tasks and standardised spellings. Results showed significant differences in spelling accuracy between good and poor spellers at all grades. Spelling accuracy for most conventions did not improve after the eighth grade. Spellings of consonantal clusters, initial h and /ð/ differed between good and poor spellers in the fifth grade only. Hebrew spelling was one of the strongest predictors of EFL real‐word and pseudoword spellings in both fifth and eighth grades. Implications for teaching practice are discussed. 相似文献
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Leher Singh 《Child development》2018,89(4):e397-e413
Prior research suggests that bilingualism may endow infants with greater phonological flexibility. This study investigated whether this flexibility facilitates word learning in additional languages (n = 96). Experiment 1 compared 18‐ to 20‐month‐old monolingual (English) and bilingual (English/Mandarin) infants on their ability to learn words distinguished by click consonants from a Southern African language, Ndebele. English–Mandarin bilingual infants were sensitive to Ndebele click contrasts, but monolingual English infants were not. In Experiments 2a and 2b, we investigated whether enhanced bilingual sensitivity extended to analogous nonlinguistic labels: hand claps and finger snaps. Although discriminated by infants, neither group distinguished words labeled by hand claps and finger snaps. Results suggest that bilingual infants' sustained openness to non native contrast may facilitate the uptake of words in distant languages. 相似文献
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Vowels in Spanish have direct one-to-one letter-sound correspondences, whereas vowels in English usually have multiple spellings. For native Spanish-speaking children learning to spell in English, this transition from a shallow to a deep orthography could potentially cause difficulties. We examined whether the spelling of English vowel sounds was particularly difficult for native Spanish-speaking children, and whether the errors are consistent with Spanish orthographic rules. Twenty-six native Spanish-speaking and 53 native English-speaking children in grades 2 and 3 were given real-word and pseudoword spelling tasks in English that included words containing four vowels that have different spellings between Spanish and English. Results supported our hypothesis—native Spanish-speaking children committed significantly more vowel spelling errors that were consistent with Spanish orthography. The number of vowel spelling errors not consistent with Spanish orthography did not differ between the two language groups. These findings suggest that orthographic properties of the children’s native language influence their learning to spell in a second language. Educational implications address how knowledge of this cross language influence can aide teachers in improving spelling instruction. 相似文献
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The objective of the present study was to examine the contribution of lexical and nonlexical processes to skilled reading
and spelling in Persian. Persian is a mixed orthography that allows one to study within one language characteristics typically
found in shallow orthographies as well as those found in deeper orthographies. 61 senior high-school students (mean age = 17;
8, SD = 4 months) attending schools in Iran were tested on reading and spelling of words and nonwords. The word stimuli differed
in terms of reading transparency (transparent when all phonemes have corresponding letters vs. opaque when short vowels were
not marked with a letter) and spelling polygraphy (nonpolygraphic phonemes vs. polygraphic phonemes). The nonwords were transparent
and nonpolygraphic. The reading results showed that both transparent and opaque words were read faster than nonwords, and
that transparent words were read faster than opaque words. Moreover, both transparent and opaque words were affected by word
frequency. These findings suggest that skilled readers of Persian relied on lexical processes to read words. In contrast,
the spelling results failed to show a word-advantage effect suggesting that skilled spellers of Persian rely on nonlexical
processes to spell words. Moreover, orthographic complexity also affected spelling. Specifically, nonpolygraphic words were
spelled faster than polygraphic words for both transparent and opaque words. Taken together, the findings showed that skilled
reading and spelling in Persian rely on different underlying processes. 相似文献
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Chieh-Fang Hu 《Reading and writing》2008,21(8):823-841
The effect of capitalizing on orthography in auditory learning of English words was examined in 74 children who spoke Mandarin
Chinese as their primary language. To use orthographic information for auditory word learning, children must recode printed
words phonologically to assist the reconstruction of the speech single misheard or underspecified, an ability that may depend
heavily on phonological awareness (PA). In this study, children with poorer PA of Chinese and those with better PA were taught
novel English words in an auditory learning task under two exposure conditions: auditory words presented with their written
forms and auditory words presented with undecodable symbols. Word learning performance was better in the written form condition
than in the symbol condition, but the effect was smaller for children with poorer PA. The facilitative effect was associated
with L2 PA for children with poorer PA but not for children with better PA. The results are discussed with regard to how poor
PA may constrain auditory word learning in an L2 context. 相似文献
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In order to examine the effect of the home language on the spelling development in English in children who are learning English as a second language (ESL learners), it is best to directly compare groups of ESL learners from various home language backgrounds. This study compared the oral language, phonological awareness, reading, and spelling performance of Tagalog–English bilingual, Cantonese–English bilingual, and monolingual English-speaking children in Grade 1. The bilingual children had lower scores than the monolinguals on measures of oral proficiency, but demonstrated similar or better performance on most phonological awareness, reading, and spelling tasks after controlling for vocabulary size in English. A series of moderated regression analysis revealed that although phonological awareness was associated with English spelling performance regardless of language background, the associations between specific spelling tasks and related underlying skills seemed to differ across language groups. 相似文献
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A cross-sectional study tested Danish students' mastery of links between grammar and spelling (cf. the English link between past tense verbs and the -ed spelling for a word final /t/, e.g., miss
ed vs. mis
t). One hundred and forty-two students aged 10–17 spelled pseudo-word items with ambiguous phonemes, where the choice between a 'conditional' spelling (cf. English ed for /t/) and a simple spelling (cf. t for /t/) was predictable from the grammatical context but not from the sound. Overgeneralisations (conditional spellings used where simple spellings were appropriate) were controlled to obtain pure measures of grammatical spelling competence. The oldest group of participants performed near ceiling on four of five spelling problems studied while three younger groups in the experiment never did. The nature of the apparent grammatical hurdle in Danish spelling acquisition is discussed. 相似文献
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Linguistic awareness i.e. the ability to identify phonemes, to segment words into syllables and to rhyme is highly correlated with reading/spelling proficiency. Children with severe developmental language disorders DLD (syntagmatic type) have been shown to specifically lack linguistic awareness. Two non-identical twin boys with severe, specific DLD were studied longitudinally with respect to their linguistic, neurolinguistic and pragmatic development. In spite of poor linguistic awareness, the boys acquired normal reading/spelling skills. This might be due to the early and massive language training they were given. However, the boys differ considerably in some aspects of reading and spelling performance. These findings are discussed with reference to their different neurolinguistic and pragmatic profiles. 相似文献
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Jackie Masterson Veronica Laxon Sophie Lovejoy Victoria Morris 《Journal of Research in Reading》2007,30(4):429-442
Two groups of undergraduate students, matched for reading skill but differing in spelling ability, participated in three experiments with the aim of exploring the causes of differences in spelling skill in this population. In the first experiment participants were presented with a range of tasks to investigate the possibility that the poor spellers had poorer phonological abilities than the good spellers. No significant differences were observed. In Experiment 2, a lexical decision task was used. The words in the task differed in orthographic neighbourhood size (N) and frequency. Analysis of the latencies revealed effects of frequency and N, but the effect of spelling group was not significant and neither was the interaction with N. Analysis of the errors revealed that the poor spellers made significantly more errors than the good spellers. In Experiment 3 participants were asked to identify the letters in briefly presented words and non‐words. There was a significant effect of stimulus type in favour of words. Poor spellers made more errors in the task than the good spellers, although the difference was restricted to non‐words. Finally, an analysis of the errors made in spelling to dictation by the two groups was carried out. This revealed that the poor spellers were more likely than the good spellers to make errors that were not phonologically plausible and that differed markedly from the target. Overall, the results are interpreted in terms of a partial orthographic representations explanation of poor spelling in good readers. 相似文献
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Three experiments investigated whether production of low-frequency spellings could be influenced by other words containing
those spellings. Participants saw visually-presented primes (Experiment 1) or heard primes presented auditorily and produced
their spelling (Experiments 2 and 3). Primes either shared both orthography and phonology (e.g., chapl
ai
n) or only orthography (e.g., ord
ai
n) with the target word (e.g., porcel
ai
n). Following the primes, participants attempted to produce the correct spellings of auditorily-presented target words containing
low-frequency spellings, such as the ai in porcelain. Participants correctly spelled the targets’ low-frequency spelling more often when preceded by either type of prime, relative
to unprimed targets. Furthermore, priming only occurred when the prime’s spelling was produced correctly; primes spelled incorrectly
reduced the correct production of target spellings. These results suggest that unlike the priming of nonwords, the basis of
lexical priming of real words is orthographic, resulting from the priming of specific graphemes that increases the probability
of reactivating the same spelling pattern in the target.
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Marie Lallier Guillaume Thierry Polly Barr Manuel Carreiras Marie-Josephe Tainturier 《Scientific Studies of Reading》2018,22(4):335-349
According to the Grain Size Accommodation hypothesis (Lallier & Carreiras, 2017), learning to read in two languages differing in orthographic consistency leads to a cross-linguistic modulation of reading and spelling processes. Here, we test the prediction that bilingualism may influence the manifestations of dyslexia. We compared the deficits of English monolingual and early Welsh–English bilingual dyslexic adults on reading and spelling irregular English words and English-like pseudowords. As predicted, monolinguals were relatively more impaired in reading pseudowords than irregular words, whereas the opposite was true for bilinguals. Moreover, monolinguals showed stronger sublexical processing deficits than bilinguals and were poorer spellers overall. This study shows that early bilingual reading experience has long-lasting effects on the manifestations of dyslexia in adulthood. It demonstrates that learning to read in a consistent language like Welsh in addition to English gives bilingual dyslexic adults an advantage in English literacy tasks strongly relying on phonological processing. 相似文献
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Newly literate children have a tendency to spell s-stop sequences in words like spin, stop, sky with B, D, G (SBIN, SDOP, SGY), rather than with standard P, T, K. This observation potentially has implications for theories
of English phonology as well as of language and literacy acquisition. Understanding these implications, however, requires
data about the spelling preferences of preliterate children. In this study, a training-and-transfer design was used to test
these spelling preferences in preliterate children. Results confirm that these children relate words with stops after /s/
to words with initial /b, d, g/ rather than to words with initial /p, t, k/. The paper outlines several possible interpretations:
that preliterate children have a different phonemic analysis from adults, that they believe spelling represents archiphonemes
that they believe spelling represents allophones, and that their early spelling attempts track the phonetic surface. The data
suggest rejection of the second interpretation and in our view favour the last over the remaining interpretations. Several
theoretical issues are raised that need to be resolved before a full account of the data can be offered. 相似文献
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Previous cross-language research has focused on L1 phonological processing and its relation to L2 reading. Less extensive
is the research on the effect that L1 orthographic processing skill has on L2 reading and spelling. This study was designed
to investigate how reading and spelling acquisition in English (L2) is influenced by phonological and orthographic processing
skills in Spanish (L1) in 89 Spanish-English bilingual children in grades 2 and 3. Comparable measures in English and Spanish
tapping phonological and orthographic processing were administered to the bilingual children. We found that cross-language
phonological and orthographic transfer occurs from Spanish to English. Specifically, the Spanish phoneme deletion task contributed
a significant amount of unique variance to English word reading and spelling, for both real words and pseudowords. The Spanish
homophone choice task predicted English reading, but not spelling. Taken together, these results suggest that there are shared
phonological and orthographic processes in bilingual reading; however, orthographic patterns may be language specific, thereby
not likely to transfer to spelling performance. 相似文献
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This study investigated the effect of phonological sensitivity of two comparable groups of grades 4 and 5 Chinese children, one a Putonghua-speaking group (n = 77) from Beijing and the other a Cantonese-speaking group (n = 80) from Hong Kong on English and Chinese pseudoword reading. It was hypothesized that the Beijing group would process more accurately suprasegmental lexical tones and phonological sensitivity tasks (rhyme detection and discrimination, two phoneme segmentation tasks deleting initial, medial and final phonemes) than their Hong Kong counterparts. Multivariate analyses of variance of the five tasks considered conjointly as dependent variables and spoken language groups and grades as independent variables confirmed the hypothesis. Separate stepwise multiple regression analyses with English and Chinese pseudoword reading as criteria also confirmed the related hypothesis of differential contribution by the speech-sound repetition and phonological sensitivity tasks to English and Chinese pseudoword reading. The better performance of the Putonghua group compared with the Cantonese counterpart might be explained by the phonologically more salient Putonghua mediated by the use of Pinyin as an adjunct in character and word reading. 相似文献
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Studies have shown that children benefit from a spelling pronunciation strategy in remembering the spellings of words. The current study determined whether this strategy also helps adults learn to spell commonly misspelled words. Participants were native English speaking college students (N = 42), mean age 22.5 years (SD = 7.87). An experimental design with random assignment, pretests, training, and posttests assessed effects of the pronunciation strategy on memory for the spellings of 20 hard to spell words. Half of the participants were trained to read the words by assigning spelling pronunciations during learning (n = 21). The comparison group (n = 21) practiced reading the words normally without the strategy. Strategy trained adults recalled significantly more words, total letters, silent letters, and schwa vowel letters correctly than controls. Poor spellers benefited as much if not more from this strategy as good spellers. Results support orthographic mapping theories. Optimizing the match between spelling units and sound units, including graphemes and phonemes, syllables, and morphemes, to create spelling pronunciations when words are read enhances memory for spellings of the words. As a result, higher quality lexical representations are retained in memory. Results suggest the value of teaching college students this strategy to improve their ability to spell words correctly in their written work. 相似文献
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To what extent does phonology play a role in spelling English words? The written responses of deaf students and groups of hearing children to five tasks were subjected to quantitative and qualitative analyses. The first three tasks were used to see if deaf students utilized phonology when they generated their own words and to compare their spelling performance with that of hearing subjects. The fourth and fifth tasks were designed to compare the spelling performance of deaf and hearing subjects when they were required to reproduce visually presented common words. Results showed that deaf students, who were chronologically much older, were not better spellers than hearing children from the fifth grade. Analysis of data revealed little evidence that the deaf students involved in the present study utilize phonology in spelling. Nor did word-specific visual memory for entire words appears to play a role in spelling by deaf students. Rote visual memory for letter patterns and sequences of letters within words, however, appears to play a role in the spelling by deaf students. It is concluded that sensitivity to the stochastic-dependent probabilities of letter sequences may aid spelling up to certain point but phonology is essential for spelling words whose structure is morphophonemically complex.
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Metrical stress sensitivity in young children and its relationship to phonological awareness and reading 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Clare Wood 《Journal of Research in Reading》2006,29(3):270-287
This paper reports two studies of young English‐speaking children's ability to cope with changes to the metrical stress pattern of spoken words and the relationship between this ability, phonological awareness and early reading development. Initially, 39 children aged 4 and 5 years were assessed on their ability to identify mispronounced words, including words that had their metrical stress pattern reversed. The children were significantly worse at identifying words that had their metrical stress pattern reversed than words that were mispronounced in other ways. The second study was a cross‐sectional comparison of 31 5, 6 and 7‐year‐old children's performance on the metrical stress reversal condition of the mispronunciation task. Measures of the children's written language skills and phonological awareness were also taken. The 7‐year‐old children outperformed the 5‐year‐olds on the metrical stress task. Performance on this measure was associated with most of the measures of phonological awareness and literacy, and was associated with rhyme awareness and spelling ability after age had been taken into account. Moreover, metrical stress sensitivity could account for variance in spelling ability after phonological awareness had been taken into account, and after vocabulary had been taken into account. This suggests that stress sensitivity may influence spelling development in a way that is independent of its contribution to phonological representations. 相似文献
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Jean Elbert 《Annals of dyslexia》1993,43(1):26-43
The purpose of this study was to investigate the occurrence and severity of reading, spelling, and written language impairment
in children clinically referred for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Specific questions involved 1) whether
ADD subgroups with and without hyperactivity differ in reading, spelling, and written language achievement, 2) whether age
and gender interact with ADD sub-group class to affect reading/written language achievement, and 3) whether prevalence of
impaired reading/written language in these subgroups is consistent with previous reports in heterogeneous samples. Subjects
were 115 ADD children aged 6-12 who were subclassified as ADD + H(72 percent) and ADD - H(28 percent) by objective teacher
ratings. Dependent measures included tests of single word recognition and vocabulary, word attack, contextual comprehension,
written spelling, written sentence construction, and writing fluency, in addition to a structured behavioral observation,
during which aspects of inattention and motor activity were coded. A large fraction of this sample met public school LD criteria
(54 percent), and achievement on most measures was globally poorer than the respective test normative groups. The ADD + H
subgroup showed significantly poorer word attack skills, while the subgroups did not significantly differ from each other
on other reading/written language measures. However, 17 percent of the total ADD sample were ≥ 1.5 SD below the mean in total
reading achievement, and 29 percent were ≥ 1.5 SD below the mean on measures of written spelling/language. Gender X age interactions,
indicating poorer performance in the middle age group of females, were likely related to lower IQ. 相似文献