Learning to Label Letters by Sounds or Names: A Comparison of England and the United States
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| Title: | Learning to Label Letters by Sounds or Names: A Comparison of England and the United States |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Ellefson, Michelle R., Treiman, Rebecca, Kessler, Brett |
| Source: | Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Mar 2009 102(3):323-341. |
| Availability: | Elsevier. 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, FL 32887-4800. Tel: 877-839-7126; Tel: 407-345-4020; Fax: 407-363-1354; e-mail: usjcs@elsevier.com; Web site: http://www.elsevier.com |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 19 |
| Publication Date: | 2009 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Descriptors: | Young Children, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Alphabets, Comparative Analysis, Parent Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, Task Analysis, Age Differences, Error Patterns, Spelling, Questionnaires, Teaching Methods |
| Geographic Terms: | United Kingdom (England), United States |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jecp.2008.05.008 |
| ISSN: | 0022-0965 |
| Abstract: | Learning about letters is an important foundation for literacy development. Should children be taught to label letters by conventional names, such as /bi/ for "b", or by sounds, such as /b[inverted e]/? We queried parents and teachers, finding that those in the United States stress letter names with young children, whereas those in England begin with sounds. Looking at 5- to 7-year-olds in the two countries, we found that U.S. children were better at providing the names of letters than were English children. English children outperformed U.S. children on letter-sound tasks, and differences between children in the two countries declined with age. We further found that children use the first-learned set of labels to inform the learning of the second set. As a result, English and U.S. children made different types of errors in letter-name and letter-sound tasks. The children's invented spellings also differed in ways reflecting the labels they used for letters. (Contains 9 tables.) |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2010 |
| Accession Number: | EJ869747 |
| Database: | ERIC |
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