... of the present study: the critical role of the lexicon in developing use of morpho-syntactic ... more ... of the present study: the critical role of the lexicon in developing use of morpho-syntactic structures and text-production abilities. ... Again, across different languages, relative clauses use higher register or semantically more specific subordinating markers than, say, just English that ...
... Sentence imitation .81 .79 .71 .81 Text comprehension .83 .75 .75 .66 D D ... Psychology andl... more ... Sentence imitation .81 .79 .71 .81 Text comprehension .83 .75 .75 .66 D D ... Psychology andlanguage. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich. ... In H. van der Hulst & N. Smith (Eds.), Thestructure of phonological representations (Part II, pp. 213256). Dordrecht: Foris. ...
The purpose of the present study was to explore the possibilities for the assessment of growth in... more The purpose of the present study was to explore the possibilities for the assessment of growth in phonological awareness of children in kindergarten and first grade. Phonological awareness was measured using four sets of items involving rhyming, phoneme identification, phoneme blending, and phoneme segmentation. The results of an exploratory factor analysis and analyses conducted within the framework of item response theory showed one latent ability to underlie the different sets of items, which nevertheless differed in difficulty. Analyses in terms of the children’s ability further showed the phonological awareness measures to be sensitive to growth. The amount of information supplied by the different sets of items depended on the children’s level of ability. The conclusion that it is possible to accurately monitor the development of children’s phonological awareness in the early elementary grades appears to be justified, and this possibility opens up new perspectives for the early screening for reading problems and dyslexia.
The present study examined the long-term effects of a computer intervention for the development o... more The present study examined the long-term effects of a computer intervention for the development of phonological awareness in Dutch kindergartners. Native Dutch and immigrant children worked with the software 15 min/week during one school year. Following a pretest – interim test – post-test – retention test design, the effects on rhyming, phonemic segmentation, auditory blending, and grapheme knowledge were assessed. The intervention showed significant immediate effects on rhyming and grapheme knowledge. The time spent on the computer games also correlated with the learning gains for the experimental group. In the first grade, retention effects were demonstrated after 4 months of formal reading education.
... of the present study: the critical role of the lexicon in developing use of morpho-syntactic ... more ... of the present study: the critical role of the lexicon in developing use of morpho-syntactic structures and text-production abilities. ... Again, across different languages, relative clauses use higher register or semantically more specific subordinating markers than, say, just English that ...
... Sentence imitation .81 .79 .71 .81 Text comprehension .83 .75 .75 .66 D D ... Psychology andl... more ... Sentence imitation .81 .79 .71 .81 Text comprehension .83 .75 .75 .66 D D ... Psychology andlanguage. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich. ... In H. van der Hulst & N. Smith (Eds.), Thestructure of phonological representations (Part II, pp. 213256). Dordrecht: Foris. ...
The purpose of the present study was to explore the possibilities for the assessment of growth in... more The purpose of the present study was to explore the possibilities for the assessment of growth in phonological awareness of children in kindergarten and first grade. Phonological awareness was measured using four sets of items involving rhyming, phoneme identification, phoneme blending, and phoneme segmentation. The results of an exploratory factor analysis and analyses conducted within the framework of item response theory showed one latent ability to underlie the different sets of items, which nevertheless differed in difficulty. Analyses in terms of the children’s ability further showed the phonological awareness measures to be sensitive to growth. The amount of information supplied by the different sets of items depended on the children’s level of ability. The conclusion that it is possible to accurately monitor the development of children’s phonological awareness in the early elementary grades appears to be justified, and this possibility opens up new perspectives for the early screening for reading problems and dyslexia.
The present study examined the long-term effects of a computer intervention for the development o... more The present study examined the long-term effects of a computer intervention for the development of phonological awareness in Dutch kindergartners. Native Dutch and immigrant children worked with the software 15 min/week during one school year. Following a pretest – interim test – post-test – retention test design, the effects on rhyming, phonemic segmentation, auditory blending, and grapheme knowledge were assessed. The intervention showed significant immediate effects on rhyming and grapheme knowledge. The time spent on the computer games also correlated with the learning gains for the experimental group. In the first grade, retention effects were demonstrated after 4 months of formal reading education.
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