Instruction matters to the development of phoneme awareness and its relationship to akshara knowledge and word reading: evidence from Sinhala

We examined whether global instruction of complex akshara and explicit phoneme-level instruction of akshara impact the development of phoneme awareness and its association with akshara knowledge and word reading accuracy. The participants were 100 Sinhala-speaking children from Grades 4 and 5 in Sri...

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Main Authors: Wijaythilake, M, Parrila, R, Inoue, T, Nag, S
Format: Journal article
Published: Taylor and Francis 2018