Handbook of Literacy in Akshara Orthography
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| Summary: | IX, 388 p. 1035 illus. text |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2019.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019. |
| Series: | Literacy Studies, Perspectives from Cognitive Neurosciences, Linguistics, Psychology and Education,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05977-4 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction; R. M. Joshi & Catherine McBride
- Indic Scripts: History, Typology, Study; Peter T. Daniels
- What is an Akṣara? Keerthi Ramanujan and Brendan Stuart Weekes
- Part II. Akshara Orthographies: A brief description
- Orthographic knowledge, reading and spelling development in Tamil: The first three years; Sonali Nag and Balambigai Narayanan
- Literacy acquisition in the Malayalam orthography: Cognitive/linguistic influences within a multilingual context; Mimisha Nesan, Amir Sadeghi and John Everatt
- Spelling Acquisition in Akshara and English; Pooja Nakamura, Joshi, R. M., & Ji, X
- Akshara processing in Telugu depends on syllabic and phonemic sensitivity: Preliminary evidence from normal hearing and hearing impaired children; Vasanta Duggirala
- Multiliteracy in Akshara and Alphabetic Orthographies: the case of Punjabi, Hindi and English learners in primary schools in Punjab; Seema Gautam, John Everatt, Amir Sadeghi, and Brigid McNeill
- Spelling and reading words in Bengali: The role of distributed phonology; Shruti Sircar and Sonali Nag
- Assamese phonology-orthography correlates with reference to learnability and literacy issues; Hemanga Dutta
- Reading and Writing Sinhala; M.A.D.K. Wijaythilake & R. Parrila
- Learning to Read and Write in Thai; Heather Winskel and Theeraporn Ratitamkul
- Part III. Assessment
- The Assessment of Emergent and Early Literacy Skills in the Akshara languages; Shaher Banu Vagh and Sonali Nag
- Dyslexia Assessment for Languages of India (DALI); Nandini Singh
- Part IV. Instruction
- Language-focused Instruction for Literacy Acquisition in Akshara-based Languages; Chandrika Mathur & Sonali Nag
- Challenges in learning Akshara orthographies for second language learners; Adeetee Bhide & Charles Perfetti
- Part V. Research Implications
- Learning to read in their heritage language: Hindi-Englisryh speakers reading two different orthographies; Amna Mirza and Alexandra Gottardo
- Cross-modal processing of orthography-phonology interface in Hindi-English bilinguals; Ramesh Kumar Mishra
- Language and Literacy Practices that Influence Bilingual and Bi-Literate Acquisition in L1 Kannada and L2 English in Bangalore, India; Sunaina Shenoy and Richard K. Wagner.