Visual and Linguistic Factors in Literacy Acquisition : Instructional Implications for Beginning Readers in Low-income Countries

Improving the quality of literacy teaching may require intervening at different levels, for example, encouraging school attendance and optimizing textbook format and teaching methods. Reading is a complex task involving perceptual, motor, linguisti...

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Main Authors: Marinelli, Chiara Valeria, Martelli, Marialuisa, Praphamontripong, Prachayani, Zoccolotti, Pierluigi, Abadzi, Helen
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Language:English
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Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/01/18043049/visual-linguistic-factors-literacy-acquisition-instructional-implications-beginning-readers-low-income-countries
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topic ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
ACADEMIC SUCCESS
ACHIEVEMENT LEVEL
ACQUISITION OF LITERACY
ADAPTATION
ADOLESCENTS
ADULT ILLITERATES
ADULT LEARNING
ADULTS
ALPHABET
ALPHABETS
ATTENTION
AUDITING
AVAILABILITY OF TEXTBOOKS
BASIC SKILLS
BINDING
BLACKBOARDS
CHILDREN WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
CLASSROOM
CLASSROOM TEACHING
CLOSEST MATCH
COLLEGE STUDENTS
COLONIAL LANGUAGES
CONCEPT FORMATION
CONTENTS
DEMONSTRATION
DESCRIPTION
DEVELOPMENTAL PERIOD
DOMAIN
DONOR SUPPORT
DRILLS
EARLY CHILDHOOD
EARLY GRADES
EARLY READING
EARLY YEARS OF SCHOOL
EDUCATION FOR ALL
EDUCATION QUALITY
EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
EDUCATIONAL QUALITY
EFFECTIVE TEACHERS
EFFECTIVE TEACHING
EFFECTIVE TEACHING STRATEGIES
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ENGLISH SPEAKING CHILDREN
ENTRY
FIRST GRADE
GROSS ENROLMENT
GROSS ENROLMENT RATES
HEADINGS
ILLITERATE ADULTS
ILLITERATE CHILDREN
ILLITERATE POPULATION
ILLITERATES
INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES
INFANTS
INFORMATION PROCESSING
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
INSTRUCTIONAL TIME
INTERVENTIONS
INTUITION
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
LEARNERS
LEARNING
LEARNING CURVE
LEARNING CURVES
LEARNING DISABILITIES
LEARNING EFFECT
LEARNING MATERIALS
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
LEARNING OUTCOMES
LEARNING PROCESS
LEGIBILITY
LET
LEVEL OF EDUCATION
LINGUISTIC DIFFERENCES
LITERACY
LITERACY SKILLS
MATURATION
MEMORY
MOTHER TONGUE
OBJECT
OBJECTS
OLDER CHILDREN
PAPERS
PERCEPTION
PRIMARY EDUCATION
PRINTING COSTS
PROBABILITY
PSYCHOLOGY
QUALITY EDUCATION
QUALITY OF EDUCATION
QUALITY OF LITERACY
QUALITY OF TEXTBOOKS
QUALITY TEACHING
READERS
READING
READING ACHIEVEMENT
READING COMPETENCE
READING COMPREHENSION
READING SKILLS
READINGS
RECOGNITION
REGULAR SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
RESEARCHERS
RETENTION
RURAL STUDENTS
SCHOOL AGE
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
SCHOOL DROPOUTS
SCHOOL YEAR
SCHOOL YEARS
SCHOOLING
SCHOOLS
SECOND LANGUAGE
SELECTIVE ATTENTION
SITE
SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT
STANDARDIZED TESTS
STUDENT LEARNING
TEACHER
TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS
TEACHERS
TEACHING
TEACHING METHOD
TEACHING METHODS
TEACHING STRATEGIES
TEST SCORES
TEXTBOOK
TEXTBOOK AVAILABILITY
TEXTBOOK PRINTING
THINKING
THOUGHTS
VOCABULARIES
VOCABULARY
WORKING MEMORY
YOUNG CHILDREN
spellingShingle ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
ACADEMIC SUCCESS
ACHIEVEMENT LEVEL
ACQUISITION OF LITERACY
ADAPTATION
ADOLESCENTS
ADULT ILLITERATES
ADULT LEARNING
ADULTS
ALPHABET
ALPHABETS
ATTENTION
AUDITING
AVAILABILITY OF TEXTBOOKS
BASIC SKILLS
BINDING
BLACKBOARDS
CHILDREN WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
CLASSROOM
CLASSROOM TEACHING
CLOSEST MATCH
COLLEGE STUDENTS
COLONIAL LANGUAGES
CONCEPT FORMATION
CONTENTS
DEMONSTRATION
DESCRIPTION
DEVELOPMENTAL PERIOD
DOMAIN
DONOR SUPPORT
DRILLS
EARLY CHILDHOOD
EARLY GRADES
EARLY READING
EARLY YEARS OF SCHOOL
EDUCATION FOR ALL
EDUCATION QUALITY
EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
EDUCATIONAL QUALITY
EFFECTIVE TEACHERS
EFFECTIVE TEACHING
EFFECTIVE TEACHING STRATEGIES
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
ENGLISH SPEAKING CHILDREN
ENTRY
FIRST GRADE
GROSS ENROLMENT
GROSS ENROLMENT RATES
HEADINGS
ILLITERATE ADULTS
ILLITERATE CHILDREN
ILLITERATE POPULATION
ILLITERATES
INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES
INFANTS
INFORMATION PROCESSING
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
INSTRUCTIONAL TIME
INTERVENTIONS
INTUITION
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
LEARNERS
LEARNING
LEARNING CURVE
LEARNING CURVES
LEARNING DISABILITIES
LEARNING EFFECT
LEARNING MATERIALS
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
LEARNING OUTCOMES
LEARNING PROCESS
LEGIBILITY
LET
LEVEL OF EDUCATION
LINGUISTIC DIFFERENCES
LITERACY
LITERACY SKILLS
MATURATION
MEMORY
MOTHER TONGUE
OBJECT
OBJECTS
OLDER CHILDREN
PAPERS
PERCEPTION
PRIMARY EDUCATION
PRINTING COSTS
PROBABILITY
PSYCHOLOGY
QUALITY EDUCATION
QUALITY OF EDUCATION
QUALITY OF LITERACY
QUALITY OF TEXTBOOKS
QUALITY TEACHING
READERS
READING
READING ACHIEVEMENT
READING COMPETENCE
READING COMPREHENSION
READING SKILLS
READINGS
RECOGNITION
REGULAR SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
RESEARCHERS
RETENTION
RURAL STUDENTS
SCHOOL AGE
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
SCHOOL DROPOUTS
SCHOOL YEAR
SCHOOL YEARS
SCHOOLING
SCHOOLS
SECOND LANGUAGE
SELECTIVE ATTENTION
SITE
SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT
STANDARDIZED TESTS
STUDENT LEARNING
TEACHER
TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS
TEACHERS
TEACHING
TEACHING METHOD
TEACHING METHODS
TEACHING STRATEGIES
TEST SCORES
TEXTBOOK
TEXTBOOK AVAILABILITY
TEXTBOOK PRINTING
THINKING
THOUGHTS
VOCABULARIES
VOCABULARY
WORKING MEMORY
YOUNG CHILDREN
Marinelli, Chiara Valeria
Martelli, Marialuisa
Praphamontripong, Prachayani
Zoccolotti, Pierluigi
Abadzi, Helen
Visual and Linguistic Factors in Literacy Acquisition : Instructional Implications for Beginning Readers in Low-income Countries
relation Global Partnership for Education (GPE) working paper series on learning;no. 2
description Improving the quality of literacy teaching may require intervening at different levels, for example, encouraging school attendance and optimizing textbook format and teaching methods. Reading is a complex task involving perceptual, motor, linguistic, phonological, and memory components, each of which has a crucial role in determining reading rate. High poverty rates continue to have a negative impact on human resource development and education quality in Africa, further complicating the ability of most countries to reach the Education for All (EFA) and Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Moreover, Africa and Asia are hosts to most of the world's multilingual countries, in which textbook availability in major indigenous languages is sorely lacking. Therefore, it is important to take all possible steps to maximize the effectiveness of teaching interventions. In parallel, also the quality of textbooks is a crucial factor for quality education, especially in developing countries. It is important to dispose of well-written and well-designed textbooks, because the quality of textbook can be an important predictor of student learning and can contribute to the effective use of instructional time and classroom teaching. This review examines the evidence regarding variables influencing acquisition of decoding and comprehension reading skills. One important caveat is in order. While the educational, psychological and neuroscience literature on reading is extensive, it largely depends upon studies on English speaking individuals. The first part of the review focuses on studies of visual psychophysics and examines the visual limitations affecting reading and its development. The second part of the review draws on the psychological and neuroscience literature to examine the role of several variables influencing reading acquisition, such as letter knowledge, teaching method, teacher's competence, orthographic consistency.
format Publications & Research :: Working Paper
author Marinelli, Chiara Valeria
Martelli, Marialuisa
Praphamontripong, Prachayani
Zoccolotti, Pierluigi
Abadzi, Helen
author_facet Marinelli, Chiara Valeria
Martelli, Marialuisa
Praphamontripong, Prachayani
Zoccolotti, Pierluigi
Abadzi, Helen
author_sort Marinelli, Chiara Valeria
title Visual and Linguistic Factors in Literacy Acquisition : Instructional Implications for Beginning Readers in Low-income Countries
title_short Visual and Linguistic Factors in Literacy Acquisition : Instructional Implications for Beginning Readers in Low-income Countries
title_full Visual and Linguistic Factors in Literacy Acquisition : Instructional Implications for Beginning Readers in Low-income Countries
title_fullStr Visual and Linguistic Factors in Literacy Acquisition : Instructional Implications for Beginning Readers in Low-income Countries
title_full_unstemmed Visual and Linguistic Factors in Literacy Acquisition : Instructional Implications for Beginning Readers in Low-income Countries
title_sort visual and linguistic factors in literacy acquisition : instructional implications for beginning readers in low-income countries
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2013
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/01/18043049/visual-linguistic-factors-literacy-acquisition-instructional-implications-beginning-readers-low-income-countries
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spelling okr-10986-162442021-04-23T14:03:28Z Visual and Linguistic Factors in Literacy Acquisition : Instructional Implications for Beginning Readers in Low-income Countries Marinelli, Chiara Valeria Martelli, Marialuisa Praphamontripong, Prachayani Zoccolotti, Pierluigi Abadzi, Helen ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMIC SUCCESS ACHIEVEMENT LEVEL ACQUISITION OF LITERACY ADAPTATION ADOLESCENTS ADULT ILLITERATES ADULT LEARNING ADULTS ALPHABET ALPHABETS ATTENTION AUDITING AVAILABILITY OF TEXTBOOKS BASIC SKILLS BINDING BLACKBOARDS CHILDREN WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES CLASSROOM CLASSROOM TEACHING CLOSEST MATCH COLLEGE STUDENTS COLONIAL LANGUAGES CONCEPT FORMATION CONTENTS DEMONSTRATION DESCRIPTION DEVELOPMENTAL PERIOD DOMAIN DONOR SUPPORT DRILLS EARLY CHILDHOOD EARLY GRADES EARLY READING EARLY YEARS OF SCHOOL EDUCATION FOR ALL EDUCATION QUALITY EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS EDUCATIONAL QUALITY EFFECTIVE TEACHERS EFFECTIVE TEACHING EFFECTIVE TEACHING STRATEGIES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ENGLISH SPEAKING CHILDREN ENTRY FIRST GRADE GROSS ENROLMENT GROSS ENROLMENT RATES HEADINGS ILLITERATE ADULTS ILLITERATE CHILDREN ILLITERATE POPULATION ILLITERATES INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES INFANTS INFORMATION PROCESSING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS INSTRUCTIONAL TIME INTERVENTIONS INTUITION LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION LEARNERS LEARNING LEARNING CURVE LEARNING CURVES LEARNING DISABILITIES LEARNING EFFECT LEARNING MATERIALS LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES LEARNING OUTCOMES LEARNING PROCESS LEGIBILITY LET LEVEL OF EDUCATION LINGUISTIC DIFFERENCES LITERACY LITERACY SKILLS MATURATION MEMORY MOTHER TONGUE OBJECT OBJECTS OLDER CHILDREN PAPERS PERCEPTION PRIMARY EDUCATION PRINTING COSTS PROBABILITY PSYCHOLOGY QUALITY EDUCATION QUALITY OF EDUCATION QUALITY OF LITERACY QUALITY OF TEXTBOOKS QUALITY TEACHING READERS READING READING ACHIEVEMENT READING COMPETENCE READING COMPREHENSION READING SKILLS READINGS RECOGNITION REGULAR SCHOOL ATTENDANCE RESEARCHERS RETENTION RURAL STUDENTS SCHOOL AGE SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SCHOOL DROPOUTS SCHOOL YEAR SCHOOL YEARS SCHOOLING SCHOOLS SECOND LANGUAGE SELECTIVE ATTENTION SITE SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT STANDARDIZED TESTS STUDENT LEARNING TEACHER TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS TEACHERS TEACHING TEACHING METHOD TEACHING METHODS TEACHING STRATEGIES TEST SCORES TEXTBOOK TEXTBOOK AVAILABILITY TEXTBOOK PRINTING THINKING THOUGHTS VOCABULARIES VOCABULARY WORKING MEMORY YOUNG CHILDREN Improving the quality of literacy teaching may require intervening at different levels, for example, encouraging school attendance and optimizing textbook format and teaching methods. Reading is a complex task involving perceptual, motor, linguistic, phonological, and memory components, each of which has a crucial role in determining reading rate. High poverty rates continue to have a negative impact on human resource development and education quality in Africa, further complicating the ability of most countries to reach the Education for All (EFA) and Millennium Development Goals (MDG). Moreover, Africa and Asia are hosts to most of the world's multilingual countries, in which textbook availability in major indigenous languages is sorely lacking. Therefore, it is important to take all possible steps to maximize the effectiveness of teaching interventions. In parallel, also the quality of textbooks is a crucial factor for quality education, especially in developing countries. It is important to dispose of well-written and well-designed textbooks, because the quality of textbook can be an important predictor of student learning and can contribute to the effective use of instructional time and classroom teaching. This review examines the evidence regarding variables influencing acquisition of decoding and comprehension reading skills. One important caveat is in order. While the educational, psychological and neuroscience literature on reading is extensive, it largely depends upon studies on English speaking individuals. The first part of the review focuses on studies of visual psychophysics and examines the visual limitations affecting reading and its development. The second part of the review draws on the psychological and neuroscience literature to examine the role of several variables influencing reading acquisition, such as letter knowledge, teaching method, teacher's competence, orthographic consistency. 2013-11-13T20:58:58Z 2013-11-13T20:58:58Z 2013 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/01/18043049/visual-linguistic-factors-literacy-acquisition-instructional-implications-beginning-readers-low-income-countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16244 English en_US Global Partnership for Education (GPE) working paper series on learning;no. 2 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Working Paper Publications & Research