Phonemic awareness in Dutch kindergartners: Effects of task, phoneme position, and phoneme class

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 163-173

  De Graaff, Saskia ^a   Hasselman, Fred ^a   Verhoeven, Ludo ^a   Bosman, Anna M T ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Kindergartners; Phonemic awareness; Sonority

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449250760     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2010.02.001     Document Type: Article

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