Handbook of orthography and literacy /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Other Authors: Joshi, R. Malatesha, Aaron, P. G.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2006.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Literacy acquisition in different writing systems
  • Evolution of an alphabetic writing system: the case of Icelandic / Jorgen Pind
  • Literacy acquisition in Norwegian / Bente E. Hagtvet, Turid Helland, and Solveig-Alma H. Lyster
  • Literacy acquisition in Danish: a deep orthography in cross-linguistic light / Carsten Elbro
  • Children's language development and reading acquisition in a highly transparent orthography / Heikki Lyytinen [and others]
  • Sources of information children use in learning to spell: the case of Finnish geminates / Annukka Lehtonen
  • Orthography and literacy in French / Jean-Pierre Jaffre and Michel Fayol
  • The acquisition of literacy in Italian / Remo Job, Francesca Peressotti, and Claudio Mulatti
  • Reading and spelling acquisition and dyslexia in German / Karin Landerl and Verena Thaler
  • Double Dutch: the Dutch spelling system and learning to spell in Dutch / Anna M.T. Bosman, Saskia de Graaff, and Martine A.R. Gijsel
  • Literacy acquisition in Spanish / Javier S. Sainz
  • Beginning reading acquisition in Brazilian Portuguese / Claudia Cardoso-Martins
  • Literacy acquisition in Greek: research review of the role of phonological and cognitive factors / Costas D. Porpodas
  • The acquisition of written morphology in Greek / Terezinha Nunes, Athanasios Aidinis, and Peter Bryant
  • How language characteristics influence Turkish literacy development / Aydin Yucesan Durgunoglu
  • Literacy acquisition and dyslexia in Hungarian / Valeria Csepe
  • Developmental dyslexia: evidence from Polish / Agnieszka Reid
  • Word reading in Bulgarian children and adults / Armina Janyan and Elena Andonova
  • Early phonological skill as a predictor of reading acquisition in Latvian / Ieva Sprugevica, Ingrida Paunna, and Torleiv Hoien
  • If John were Ivan, would he fail in reading? / Elena L. Grigorenko
  • Reading in Arabic orthography: characteristics, research findings, and assessment / Salim Abu-Rabia and Haitham Taha
  • Hebrew orthography and literacy / Dorit Ravid
  • Persian orthography and its relation to literacy / Bahman Baluch
  • Literacy acquisition in Korean Hangul: investigating the perceptual and phonological processing of good and poor readers / Jeesun Kim and Chris Davis
  • The Kagunita of Kannada: learning to read and write an Indian alphasyllabary / Prathibha Karanth
  • Literacy in Kiswahili / K.J. Alcock
  • Reading Chinese / Him Cheung, Catherine McBride-Chang, and Bonnie Wing-Yin Chow
  • Theoretical framework for beginning reading in different orthographies / Philip H.K. Seymour
  • Orthography, phonology, and reading development: a cross-linguistic perspective / Usha Goswami
  • Literacy acquisition in Japanese-English bilinguals / Nobuhiko Akamatsu
  • Learning to spell in different languages: how orthographic variables might affect early literacy / M. Caravolas
  • Reading acquisition in different orthographies: evidence from direct comparisons / Karin Landerl
  • Learning to read: the effect of orthography / Mikko Aro
  • Learning to spell from print and learning to spell from speech: a study of spelling of children who speak Tamil, a Dravidian language / P.G. Aaron
  • Learning to spell by ear and by eye: a cross-linguistic comparison / R. Malatesha Joshi [and others]
  • Knowledge about letters as a foundation for reading and spelling / Rebecca Treiman
  • Morphology and spelling: what have morphemes to do with spelling? / Peter Bryant, Helène Deacon, and Terezinha Nunes
  • Metalinguistic abilities, phonological recoding skill, and the use of context in beginning reading development: a longitudinal study / William E. Tunmer and James W. Chapman
  • The case for teaching phonemic awareness and simple phonics to preschoolers / Thomas Nicholson and Giok Lian Ng
  • Alphabetics instruction helps students learn to read / Linnea C. Ehri
  • The effectiveness of synthetic phonics teaching in developing reading and spelling skills in English-speaking boys and girls / Rhona S. Johnston and Joyce E. Watson
  • Genetic and environmental influences on the development of reading and related cognitive skills / Richard K. Olson
  • Maternal mediation in a young child's writing activity: a sociocultural perspective / Dorit Aram, Ofra Korat, and Iris Levin
  • Foundations for studying basic processes in reading / Richard L. Venezky.