Niolaki, GZ;
Masterson, J;
Terzopoulos, AR;
(2014)
Spelling improvement through letter-sound and whole-word training in two multilingual Greek- and English- speaking children.
Multilingual Education
, 4
(1)
, Article 20. 10.1186/s13616-014-0020-3.
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Abstract
Case studies of two children with spelling difficulty are reported. LK was multilingual and ED bilingual. A training programme that targeted phonic decoding (or sublexical) spelling processes was conducted with both children. Immediate and delayed post-training assessments showed improvement in spelling nonwords for LK but not for ED. Training that targeted whole word (or lexical) spelling processes was then conducted with ED. Improvement in spelling of irregular words (a marker for lexical spelling processes) was observed. Research into literacy difficulties with multilingual children is sparse, although multilingualism is increasingly widespread. Up to now theoretically based training studies have focused on monolingual children and results were promising. The present findings indicate that theoretically based training programmes for literacy difficulties can also be effective for multilingual children.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Spelling improvement through letter-sound and whole-word training in two multilingual Greek- and English- speaking children |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s13616-014-0020-3 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13616-014-0020-3 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © Niolaki et al.; licensee Springer 2014. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. |
| Keywords: | Multilingualism, Spelling training, Dual route model |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Psychology and Human Development |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1476322 |
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