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Sensitivity to morphological spelling regularities in Chinese-English bilinguals and English monolinguals
Evidence of sensitivity to graphotactic and morphological patterns in English spelling has been extensively examined in monolinguals. Comparatively...
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Evaluating the Spelling and Handwriting Legibility Test (SaHLT): a tool for the concurrent assessment of spelling and handwriting
Spelling and handwriting are related skills which are critical for writing but are typically assessed separately. Doing so makes it more difficult to...
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Effects of parallel syntactic training in French plural spelling and German noun capitalization
French plural markers and German noun capitalization encode syntactic information. Both syntactic markers present the syntactic information needed...
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Spelling development of children with and without reading difficulties throughout elementary grades: evidence from the Greek orthography
The purpose of this longitudinal study was to examine the development of spelling in a large sample ( N = 503, boys: N = 219) of Greek-speaking...
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On the role of morphology in early spelling in Hebrew and Arabic
It is well known that learning to spell is a complex and challenging process, especially for young learners, in part because it relies on multiple...
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Are some morphological units more prone to spelling variation than others? A case study using spontaneous handwritten data
The relation between morphology and spelling is an important source of evidence for theories of linguistic processing. In particular, spelling errors...
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Is spelling related to written composition? A longitudinal study in French
This research aims at exploring in an irregular orthographic system like French, if spelling is related to written composition. French spelling is...
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The relationship between grammatical understanding and writing skills in Finnish secondary L1 education
Previous studies have indicated that students’ writing skills benefit from contextualized L1 grammar teaching, in which language structures are...
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Spelling errors made by people with dyslexia
In this paper, we present a review of studies that have collected and annotated errors produced by people with dyslexia from corpora of written texts...
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Processing of grammatical gender agreement morphemes in Polish: evidence from the Visual World Paradigm
This paper presents a psycholinguistic study of the processing of grammatical gender agreement morphemes in Polish, which has three gender categories...
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What do teacher educators know about English spelling?
Teachers’ knowledge of literacy has gained considerable interest over the last three.decades, largely with a focus on the basic language constructs...
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Typical spelling errors of Grade 1 spellers of Polish: An exploratory study adapting the POMAS classification to the Polish orthography
This paper presents the adaptation of the POMAS classification of spelling errors (Silliman et al., Developmental Neuropsychology 29:93–123, 2006,...
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Intensive and explicit derivational morphology training in school-aged children: an effective way to improve morphological awareness, spelling and reading?
Morphological awareness has been shown to contribute to the acquisition of literacy in various languages. The current study focuses on an explicit...
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Spelling errors by Spanish children when writing in English as a foreign language
English orthography differs from that of other European languages in terms of complexity and regularity. This difference may impact the development...
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Writing composition ability and spelling competence in deaf subjects: a psycholinguistic analysis of source of difficulties
We studied the compositional written skills and spelling competence of individuals with a severe hearing impairment, examining qualitative and...
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Do EFL learners use different grammatical complexity features in writing across registers?
In successful writing development, English as a foreign language (EFL) learners not only need to acquire grammatical complexity (GC) features but...
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Multiple dimensions of affix spelling complexity: analyzing the performance of children with dyslexia and typically develo** controls
This study examined affix letter spelling among 6th grade Hebrew-speaking children with dyslexia compared with chronologically age-matched and...
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Accuracy and consistency in morphological spelling: evidence from Greek-speaking children with and without spelling difficulties
In this study, we examined the accuracy and consistency of Greek-speaking children with spelling difficulties using a spelling level-matched design...
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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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Early writing skills of English Language Learners (ELLs) and Native English Speakers (NESs): examining predictors of contextualized spelling, writing fluency, and writing quality
This study examined the writing skills of first-grade students who are English Language Learners (ELLs) or Native English Speakers (NESs). We...