Phonological awareness and rapid automatized naming predicting early development in reading and spelling: Results from a cross-linguistic longitudinal study

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 85-95

  Furnes, Bjarte ^a,b   Samuelsson, Stefan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cross linguistic; Literacy development; Measurement and structural invariance; Phonological awareness; RAN

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650511712     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2010.10.005     Document Type: Article

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