Letter Features as Predictors of Letter-Name Acquisition in Four Languages with Three Scripts

Autor/inn/en	Kim, Young-Suk Grace; Petscher, Yaacov; Treiman, Rebecca; Kelcey, Benjamin
Titel	Letter Features as Predictors of Letter-Name Acquisition in Four Languages with Three Scripts
Quelle	In: Scientific Studies of Reading, 25 (2021) 6, S.453-469 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Treiman, Rebecca) Weitere Informationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1088-8438
DOI	10.1080/10888438.2020.1830406
Schlagwörter	Alphabets; Orthographic Symbols; Written Language; Printed Materials; Portuguese; Korean; Contrastive Linguistics; Item Response Theory; Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence; Preschool Children; Semitic Languages; Difficulty Level; Foreign Countries; Language Variation; North American English; Task Analysis; Kindergarten; Grade 1; Visual Discrimination; College Students; Rating Scales; South Korea; Brazil; Israel; Michigan (Detroit) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Buchstabenschrift; Geschriebene Sprache; Portugiesischunterricht; Koreanisch; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Item-Response-Theorie; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Arabisch; Hebräisch; Schwierigkeitsgrad; Ausland; Sprachenvielfalt; Amerikanisches Englisch; Aufgabenanalyse; School year 01; 1. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 01; Collegestudent; Rating-Skala; Korea; Republik; Brasilien
Abstract	To expand our understanding of script-general and script-specific principles in the learning of letter names, we examined how three characteristics of alphabet letters -- their frequency in printed materials, order in the alphabet, and visual similarity to other letters -- relate to children's letter-name knowledge in four languages with three distinct scripts (English [N = 318; M age = 4.90], Portuguese [N = 366; M age = 5.80], Korean [N = 168; M age = 5.48], and Hebrew [N = 645; M age = 5.42]). Explanatory item response modeling analysis showed that the frequency of letters in printed materials was consistently related to letter difficulty across the four languages. There were also moderation effects for letter difficulty in English and Korean, and for discriminatory power of letters in Korean. The results suggest that exposure to letters as measured by letter frequency is a language-general mechanism in the learning of alphabet letters. [For the corresponding grantee submission, see ED609249.] (As Provided).
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