Volume 21, No. 1 Special Issue: Reading in Languages Other Than English Early reading strategies in Irish and English: Evidence from error types

Early reading strategies in Irish and English: Evidence from error types

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Volume 21, No. 1 Special Issue: Reading in Languages Other Than English
contributor.author:
Parsons, Christine E. Lyddy, Fiona
date.accessioned:
2020-05-22T02:07:40Z
date.available:
2020-05-22T02:07:40Z
date.issued:
2009-04
description.abstract:
For the majority of people in Ireland, Irish is a second language acquired primarily through the schooling system. This study examined the reading strategies children used in response to English and Irish words (presented in isolation), through an analysis of their oral reading errors. Children in their 4th year of schooling attending English-medium schools, immersion schools, and Irish-medium schools in Irish-speaking (Gaeltacht) regions participated. The English-medium school children scored significantly below the other 3 groups on the Irish task; the Gaeltacht school children scored below the other 3 groups on the English task. Overall, the children made significantly more real-word errors on the English task compared with the Irish task and significantly more nonword errors on the Irish task compared with the English task. These findings suggest that children learning to read in English and Irish may adopt different strategies when faced with unfamiliar words from each language.
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endingpage:
36
identifier.doi:
10125/66634
identifier.issn:
1539-0578
identifier.uri:
http://hdl.handle.net/10125/66634
number:
1
publisher:
University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center Center for Language & Technology
rfl.topic:
Reading in Languages Other Than English
site_url:
/rfl/item/187
startingpage:
22
subject:
reading minority language immersion education Irish orthography
title:
Early reading strategies in Irish and English: Evidence from error types
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Special
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Text
volume:
21