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- Title
The development of orthographic processing skills in children in early French immersion programs.
- Authors
Commissaire, Eva; Pasquarella, Adrian; Xi Chen; Hélène Deacon, S.
- Abstract
Children learning to read in two languages are faced with orthographic features from both languages, either unique to a language or similar across languages. In the present study, we examined how children develop orthographic processing skills over time (from grade 1 to grade 2) with a sample of Canadian children attending a French immersion program and we investigated the underlying factor structure of orthographic skills across English and French. Two orthographic processing tasks were administered in both languages: lexical orthographic processing (e.g. choose the correct spelling from people-peeple) and sub-lexical orthographic processing (e.g. which is the more word-like vaid-vayd?), which included both language-specific and language-shared orthographic regularities. Children's performances in sub-lexical tasks increased with grade but were comparable across languages. Further, evidence for a one factor model including all measures suggested that there is a common underlying orthographic processing skill that cuts across measurement and language variables.
- Subjects
ORTHOGRAPHY &; spelling; CHILD psychology; FOREIGN language education; SECOND language acquisition; MULTILINGUALISM; IMMERSION method (Language teaching)
- Publication
Written Language & Literacy, 2014, Vol 17, Issue 1, p16
- ISSN
1387-6732
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/wll.17.1.02com