Phoneme awareness and pathways into literacy: A comparison of German and American children

Reading and Writing

Volumn 15, Issue 7-8, 2002, Pages 653-682

  Mann, Virginia ^a   Wimmer, Heinz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cross language comparison; Early literacy; Phoneme awareness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037525038     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1020984704781     Document Type: Article

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