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Writing an Independently Composed Sentence by Spanish-Speaking Children with and without Poor Transcription Skills: A Writing-Level Match Design
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Garcia, Eduardo; Crespo, Patricia; Bermúdez, Ivana – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2017
The main objective of this research was to analyze the impact of transcription skills of Spanish writers when writing an independently composed sentence within a writing-level design. The free-writing sentence task from the "Early Grade Writing Assessment" (Jiménez, in press) was used to examine the production, accuracy, speed, syntactic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spanish, Writing (Composition), Sentences
Gender Ratio and Cognitive Profiles in Dyslexia: A Cross-National Study
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Jimenez, Juan E.; de la Cadena, Claudia Garcia; Siegel, Linda S.; O'Shanahan, Isabel; Garcia, Eduardo; Rodriguez, Cristina – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011
The purpose of this study was to analyze possible gender-related differences in the prevalence of dyslexia. A cross-national comparison of Spain and Guatemala was conducted. Both countries speak the same language but have a different standard of living and educational level. A second purpose of this study was to analyze the cognitive profile of…
Descriptors: Females, Dyslexia, Living Standards, Foreign Countries
Assessment of Orthographical Processing in Spanish Children with Dyslexia: The Role of Lexical and Sublexical Units
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Rodrigo, Mercedes; Jimenez, Juan E.; Garcia, Eduardo; Diaz, Alicia; Ortiz, M. Rosario; Guzman, Remedios; Hernandez-Valle, Isabel; Estevez, Adelina; Hernandez, Sergio – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2004
Introduction: The aim of this study was to examine the role of multiletter units, such as the morpheme and whole word, in accessing the lexicon, in Spanish children with dyslexia. Method: A sample of 60 participants were selected and organised i n three different groups: 1) an experimental group of 18 reading-disabled children, (2) a control group…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Dyslexia, Foreign Countries
An Evaluation of Syntactic-Semantic Processing in Developmental Dyslexia
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Jimenez, Juan E.; Garcia, Eduardo; Estevez, Adelina; Diaz, Alicia; Guzman, Remedios; Hernandez-Valle, Isabel; Rosario, Maria; Rodrigo, Mercedes; Hernandez, Sergio – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2004
Introduction: The main purpose of this study is to investigate whether children who have reading disabilities in an alphabetically transparent orthography show a syntactic processing deficit. This research focuses on exploring syntactic processing and the use of morphological markers by subjects with reading disabilities. We analyze these groups'…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Reading Difficulties