A cross-linguistic comparison of children learning to read in English and Dutch

The authors report on a cross-linguistic investigation of the reading skills of 6- to 11-year-old children of English (an opaque orthography) and of Dutch (a transparent orthography). Dutch children were relatively more accurate and faster than English children of the same age at reading words and n...

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Main Authors: Patel, T, Snowling, M, de Jong, P
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2004