Beginning to read across languages varying in orthographic consistency: Comparing the effects of non-cognitive and cognitive predictors

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 466-480

  Manolitsis, George ^a   Georgiou, George ^b   Stephenson, Kathy ^b   Parrila, Rauno ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross linguistic comparison; Emergent literacy; Home literacy environment; Reading development; Task focused behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349337884     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2008.07.003     Document Type: Article

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