Emergent literacy consists of the skills, knowledge, and attitudes that are developmental
precursors to reading and writing. This article offers a preliminary typology of children's …

The development of reading depends on phonological awareness across all languages so
far studied. Languages vary in the consistency with which phonology is represented in …

In this classic edition of their ground-breaking work, Usha Goswami and Peter Bryant revisit
their influential theory about how phonological skills support the development of literacy …

In this critique of current reading research and practice, the author contends that the extreme
ambiguity of English spelling-sound correspondence has confined reading science to an …

This book evaluates the involvement of working memory in five central aspects of language
processing: vocabulary acquisition, speech production, reading development, skilled …

The aim of this study was to investigate the functional organisation of working memory and
related cognitive abilities in young children. A sample of 633 children aged between 4 and 6 …

Learning to read and write generates new rules within the language processing systems.
These new rules significantly change the manner in which some operations are performed …

Background: A longitudinal study investigated the cognitive skills and scholastic attainments
at 8 years of age of children selected on the basis of poor phonological loop skills at 5 years …

I started investigating phonological awareness because of its relationships with literacy
acquisition. There is, however, a further passionately interesting issue for cognitive …

The study of literacy acquisition has made important advances in the last 15 years or so.
Most of them could not have been obtained without the efforts of a few researchers to …