Much of the research on the development of children's word decoding to date has involved
the English language, which has a highly irregular orthography with many inconsistencies …

Much of the research on the development of children's word decoding to date has involved
the English language, which has a highly irregular orthography with many inconsistencies …

This paper represents an exploration into the effectiveness and nature of vocabulary
acquisition through reading in English as a foreign language. The subjects, Polish learners …

Most of the research on the acquisition of word‐decoding skills has almost exclusively
focused on the ability to read words in isolation. The purpose of this article is to extend our …

This study investigated the growth of word-decoding skills throughout the elementary school
years for a representative sample of 2,819 Dutch children. Children's decoding abilities for …

The opaque English orthography complicates learning to read, as irregular words, such as
the word pint, cannot be Addread accurately by decoding. Studies with first language (L1) …

Beginning readers in shallow orthographies acquire word reading skills more quickly than in
deep orthographies like English. In addition to extending this evidence base by comparing …

Background In countries with German as an official language, children with German as a
second language perform overall worse in school than their German native speaking peers …

Learning to read is important to become functional literate in today's society. The process of
reading involves activation of orthographic, phonological, and semantic features of words …

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