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Executive functions mediate fine motor skills’ contribution to literacy achievement: a longitudinal study of Arabic-speaking children
Fine motor skills (FMS) are among the most studied nonlinguistic factors influencing early literacy acquisition. Although developmental studies have...
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Exploring the writing-reading connection among Arabic-speaking kindergarten children: the role of fine motor skills and orthographic knowledge
Although most studies in the field of literacy development suggest that writing and reading are two sides of the same coin, very little is known...
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Defining the relationship between fine motor visual-spatial integration and reading and spelling
New research suggests that mechanisms involved in fine motor skills play an important role in reading and writing development. Extending past work...
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Handwriting production in Spanish children with dyslexia: spelling or motor difficulties?
Spelling and handwriting are different processes; however, they are learned simultaneously, and numerous studies have shown that they interact....
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Handwriting in primary school: comparing standardized tests and evaluating impact of grapho-motor parameters
A growing number of primary school students experience difficulties with grapho-motor skills involved in handwriting, which impact both form and...
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Spelling processing during handwriting and ty** and the role of reading and visual-motor skills when ty** is less practiced than handwriting
The automatization of handwriting and ty** is sustained by both sensorimotor and linguistic abilities that support the integration of...
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The relationship of handwriting ability and literacy in kindergarten: a systematic review
Evidence supports a link between handwriting and aspects of literacy, including both reading and writing. Most evidence, however, pertains to...
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Constructing a 30-item test for character amnesia in Chinese
In the digital age, handwriting literacy has declined to a worrying degree, especially in non-alphabetic writing systems. In particular, Chinese (and...
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Lateralization of Handedness and Language
Usually, in the scientific literature the term lateralization is used to refer to different phenomena, specifically to functional differences in the...
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Methods for studying the writing time-course
The understanding of the cognitive processes that underlie written composition requires analysis of moment-by-moment fluctuation in the rate of...
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Assessing handwriting: a method for detailed analysis of letter-formation accuracy and fluency
Educationally-oriented measures of handwriting fluency – tasks such as written alphabet recall and sentence copying – conflate graphomotor skill and...
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Multisensory Pronunciation Training in a Video Conference-Based Foreign Language Classroom
Speech production is multimodal and multisensory. We present a novel approach to segmental pronunciation instruction that directs foreign...
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A multi-source entity-level sentiment corpus for the financial domain: the FinLin corpus
We introduce FinLin, a novel corpus containing investor reports, company reports, news articles, and microblogs from StockTwits, targeting multiple...
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The contributions of transcription skills to paper-based and computer-based text composing in the early years
Digital tools are an integral part of most writing communities across the globe, enhancing the criticality of gaining a comprehensive understanding...
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Spatial biases in processing mirror letters by literate subjects
Preschool children often confuse letters with their mirror images when they try to read and write. Mirror confusion seems to occur more often in line...
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Binocular coordination of children with dyslexia and typically develo** children in linguistic and non-linguistic tasks: evidence from eye movements
Given the increased evidence suggesting the presence of binocular coordination deficits in dyslexia, investigations of binocular eye movements are...
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A Preliminary Sketch on Intertextuality in Nigerian Stand-Up Comedy
This study provides a preliminary analysis of the patterns of intertextuality in Nigerian stand-up comedy performances. Previous studies on...
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Assessing penmanship of Chinese handwriting: a deep learning-based approach
The rise of the digital era has led to a decline in handwriting as the primary mode of communication, resulting in negative effects on handwriting...
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The relationships between paired associate learning and Chinese word writing in kindergarten children
This study investigated the construct of paired associate learning (PAL) and its associations with Chinese word writing in kindergarten children. A...
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Assessing the efficacy of a Tier 2 early intervention for transcription skills in Spanish elementary school students
The main objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a Tier 2 intervention within the context of the Response to Intervention (RtI) model...
