Can children's spelling of schwa vowels in stems be improved
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5685304 |
|---|---|
| Authors | João Rosa (0000-0003-3191-1168, Oxford Brookes University; Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa, Portugal), Terezinha Nunes (0000-0002-1928-1805, City University of New York; University of Oxford, Inglaterra) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Issue | 38 |
| Pages | 113-127 |
| Publication date | 2010-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educar em Revista (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0104-4060 • E-ISSN: 1984-0411 |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/s0104-40602010000300008 |
| OpenAlex | W1486555541 |
| SCIELO_PID | S0104-40602010000300008 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 16 |
Children in the early grades of primary school do not seem to have much awareness of morphemes. In this study, a priming paradigm was used to try to detect early signs of morphological representation of stems through a spelling task presented to Portuguese children (N= 396; age range 6 to 9 years). Primes shared the stem with the targets and contained well-articulated, stressed vowels; the stems of the target words contained non-stressed schwa vowels, which typically result in spelling difficulties. If priming proved effective, the well-articulated vowels in the prime should lead to improvement in the spelling of the schwa vowels in the targets. Primes were presented in two conditions: in only-oral or in oral-plus-written form. Effectiveness of priming was assessed by comparison with a no-priming condition. There was a significant interaction between priming effects and grade. No priming effects were detected in 6- and 7-year-old children; oral-plus-written priming produced higher rates of correct vowel spelling for 8- and 9-year-olds; only-oral priming was effective in improving the vowel spelling of 9-year-olds. Thus the older children used morphological information under priming conditions but there is no evidence to suggest that younger children did so
Audiology · Linguistics · Morpheme · Priming (agriculture · Schwa · Spelling · Vowel · Language Development and Disorders · Medicine · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Writing and Handwriting Education
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