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- Title
Language general and specific factors in letter acquisition: considering child and letter characteristics in Korean.
- Authors
Kim, Young-Suk; Petscher, Yaacov
- Abstract
In the present study we investigated the extent to which child level factors (i.e., phonological awareness) and letter level factors (i.e., letter name structures, letter frequency, visual similarity, and letter order) contributed to letter name and sound acquisition, using data from Korean-speaking children ( N = 169) and cross-classified multilevel model. The results showed that (1) a relatively large amount of variance is attributable to letter differences; (2) letter feature variables, letter name structure variable in particular, explained a large amount of variance attributable to differences among letters for letter-name knowledge; (3) letter feature variables other than letter name structure were not consistently related to letter-name or -sound knowledge; (4) phonological awareness was consistently related to letter-name and -sound knowledge; and (5) letter-name knowledge was somewhat inconsistent in its relation to letter-sound knowledge. The results are discussed in light of language or script general versus specific factors and instructional environment in letter name and sound acquisition.
- Subjects
STUDY &; teaching of phonetics; LINGUISTICS education; PHONETIC alphabet; ALPHABETIC principle (Reading); STUDY &; teaching of alphabets; KOREAN writing
- Publication
Reading & Writing, 2013, Vol 26, Issue 2, p263
- ISSN
0922-4777
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11145-012-9367-6