Acquiring the complex English orthography: a triliteracy advantage?

Journal of Research in Reading - Tập 34 Số 1 - Trang 136-156 - 2011
Janina Kahn‐Horwitz1,2, Mila Schwartz3,2, David L. Share3
1Gordon College of Education, Israel
2Oranim, Academic College of Education
3Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the Study of Learning Disabilities, Department of Learning Disabilities, University of Haifa, Israel

Tóm tắt

The script‐dependence hypothesis was tested through the examination of the impact of Russian and Hebrew literacy on English orthographic knowledge needed for spelling and decoding among fifth graders. We compared the performance of three groups: Russian–Hebrew‐speaking emerging triliterates, Russian–Hebrew‐speaking emerging biliterates who were not literate in Russian (but only in Hebrew) and Hebrew‐speaking emerging biliterates. Based on similarities between Russian and English orthographies, we hypothesised that Russian–Hebrew‐speaking emerging triliterates would outperform both other groups on spelling and decoding of short vowels and consonant clusters. Further, we hypothesised that all groups would face similar difficulties with novel orthographic conventions. Russian–Hebrew‐speaking emerging triliterates demonstrated advantages for spelling and decoding of short vowels and for decoding of consonant clusters. All three groups experienced difficulty with spelling and decoding the digraph th as well as the split digraph (silent e).

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