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ERIC Number: EJ624977
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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ISSN: ISSN-0267-1905
The Development of Basic Reading Skills in Children: A Cross-Language Perspective.
Geva, Esther; Wang, Min
Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, v21 p182-204 2001
Reviews recent research evidence for universal and orthography- or language-specific processes in the development of basic reading skills in school-age children. The review focuses on three different aspects of reading--phonological processing, rapid naming, and morphosyntactic complexity--targeted in recent research on development of word recognition skills. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Morphology (Languages), Phonology, Reading Processes, Reading Skills, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Word Recognition
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Note: Special issue: Language and Psychology.