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50 Years of ERIC
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Wagensveld, Barbara; Segers, Eliane; van Alphen, Petra; Verhoeven, Ludo – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
Studies have shown that prereaders find globally similar non-rhyming pairs (i.e., bell-ball) difficult to judge. Although this effect has been explained as a result of ill-defined lexical representations, others have suggested that it is part of an innate tendency to respond to phonological overlap. In the present study we examined this effect…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Rhyme, Phonology, Evaluative Thinking
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Verhoeven, Ludo; van Leeuwe, Jan – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the role of gender and linguistic diversity in the growth of Dutch word decoding skills throughout elementary school for a representative sample of children living in the Netherlands. Following a longitudinal design, the children's decoding abilities for (1) regular CVC words, (2) complex…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Decoding (Reading), Indo European Languages
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Kleemans, Tijs; Segers, Eliane; Verhoeven, Ludo – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
The present study investigated the role of cognitive and linguistic precursors to early numeracy skills to examine the interrelations between the development of linguistic and numeracy skills. General intelligence, working memory, phonological awareness, grammatical ability, and early numeracy skills were assessed in 75 first (mean age 6.1) and 55…
Descriptors: Evidence, Linguistics, Second Languages, Numeracy
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Vloedgraven, Judith; Verhoeven, Ludo – Learning and Individual Differences, 2009
In the present study, the nature of Dutch children's phonological awareness was examined throughout the elementary school grades. Phonological awareness was assessed using five different sets of items that measured rhyming, phoneme identification, phoneme blending, phoneme segmentation, and phoneme deletion. A sample of 1405 children from…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Phonology, Phonological Awareness, Identification
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Keuning, Jos; Verhoeven, Ludo – Learning and Individual Differences, 2008
The purpose of the present study was to explore Dutch spelling development throughout the elementary grades. Two issues were considered (a) dimensional structure over time, and (b) rate of change. Whether the rate of change differs depending on gender, ethnicity, or word reading skill was examined in particular. A pseudolongitudinal dataset with…
Descriptors: Spelling, Reading Skills, Item Response Theory, Foreign Countries