Common Patterns of Prediction of Literacy Development in Different Alphabetic Orthographies

Psychological Science

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 678-686

  Caravolas, Markéta ^a   Lervåg, Arne ^b   Mousikou, Petroula ^a   Efrim, Corina ^c   Litavský, Miroslav ^d   Onochie Quintanilla, Eduardo ^e   Salas, Naymé ^a   Schöffelová, Miroslava ^f   Defior, Sylvia ^e   Mikulajová, Marína ^f   Seidlová Málková, Gabriela ^d   Hulme, Charles ^g  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^d CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^f Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cross linguistic; educational psychology; literacy; reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862193170     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611434536     Document Type: Article

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