Effect of synthetic phonics instruction on literacy skills in an ESL setting

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 27, Issue , 2013, Pages 47-53

  Nishanimut, Surendranath P ^a   Johnston, Rhona S ^b   Joshi, R Malatesha ^c   Thomas, Prince J ^d   Padakannaya, Prakash ^d  

^a Samveda Training and Research Centre   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE   (India)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Cross linguistic synthetic phonics; English as a second language (ESL); Kannada; Language transfer; Phonological awareness (PA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880996928     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2013.06.007     Document Type: Article

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