The N170 component of the event-related potential (ERP) reflects experience-dependent neural changes in several forms of visual expertise, including expertise for visual words. Readers skilled in writing systems that link characters to phonemes (i.e., alphabetic writing) typically produce a left-lateralized N170 to visual word forms. This study examined the N170 in three Japanese scripts that l...

We conducted a meta-analysis to investigate reading-writing relations. Beyond the overall relation, we systematically investigated moderation of relation as function linguistic grain size (word reading and spelling versus comprehension written composition), measurement (e.g., multiple choice, open-ended, cloze), composition writing quality, productivity, fluency, syntax), developmental phase (g...

The study compared two interventions: one focusing on language and storybook reading and the other on alphabetic skills and writing. Seventy-one preschoolers from a low SES city in [the center of] Israel, age 3-5 (35 in the reading program and 36 in the writing program) participated in the study. Twenty-four untreated preschoolers were chosen for control purposes. The children were tested twice...

The purpose of this study was to examine the character identification strategies of Chinese children during their oral reading of a continuous text. Eighteen second graders’ oral reading of a story, as well as an interview about their decoding strategies, were audiotaped and transcribed. The results generally converged with those of previous oral reading research in alphabetic languages. Childr...

This paper provides an overview of the GraphoGame method. Both theoretical and methodological aspects related to the method are presented. The method’s guiding principles are based on the prevailing theories and experimental research findings on learning and teaching basic reading skills in alphabetic languages, especially from the point of view of a struggling reader. Because the nature of the...

PURPOSE To verify the universal nature of the phonological processing deficit hypothesis for dyslexia, since the most influential studies on the topic were conducted in children or adults speakers of English. RESEARCH STRATEGY A systematic review was designed, conducted and analyzed using PubMed, Science Direct, and SciELO databases. SELECTION CRITERIA The literature search was conducted us...

Stories are now a distinctive and established genre in social media. From Snapchat to WhatsApp, via Facebook Instagram, more than half billion authors (amateurs, but not only) interact with apps by composing consuming stories that configure new literature which alphabetic writing coexists the growing dominance of visual language. Centered on narrativization lives users, invited tell retell them...

The current study investigates to what extent masked morphological priming is modulated by language-particular properties, specifically by its writing system. We present results from two masked priming experiments investigating the processing of complex Japanese words written in less common (moraic) scripts. In Experiment 1, participants performed lexical decisions on target verbs; these were p...

This article reviews the literature on normal and impaired spelling development in English. Once children begin to learn that the function of alphabetic writing is to represent the sounds of language, they go through the process of learning sound-spelling correspondences in increasingly fine detail. Continued experience with print allows children to learn about orthographic and morphological co...