TY - JOUR
T1 - Spelling development in young children:
T2 - A case of Representational-Redescription?
AU - Critten, Sarah
AU - Pine, Karen
AU - Steffler, Dorothy
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Two experiments explored children’s spelling development in the context of the Representational-Redescription (RR) model (A. Karmiloff-Smith, 1992). Fifty-one 5- to 7-year-old children (Experiment 1) and 44 5- to 6-year-old children (Experiment 2) were assessed, using spelling production and recognition tasks, for phonological to morphological spelling development and representational levels derived from the RR model, respectively. Children were allocated to 1 of the stages for spelling production from T. Nunes, M. Bindman, and P. Bryant (1997) and to 1 of the representational levels derived from the RR model for spelling recognition and accompanying verbal justifications indicating their knowledge and understanding of spelling. These results are discussed in terms of how the RR model accounts for the hitherto unexplained cognitive mechanisms that underlie spelling development and the notion of multirepresentation in spelling.
AB - Two experiments explored children’s spelling development in the context of the Representational-Redescription (RR) model (A. Karmiloff-Smith, 1992). Fifty-one 5- to 7-year-old children (Experiment 1) and 44 5- to 6-year-old children (Experiment 2) were assessed, using spelling production and recognition tasks, for phonological to morphological spelling development and representational levels derived from the RR model, respectively. Children were allocated to 1 of the stages for spelling production from T. Nunes, M. Bindman, and P. Bryant (1997) and to 1 of the representational levels derived from the RR model for spelling recognition and accompanying verbal justifications indicating their knowledge and understanding of spelling. These results are discussed in terms of how the RR model accounts for the hitherto unexplained cognitive mechanisms that underlie spelling development and the notion of multirepresentation in spelling.
U2 - 10.1037/0022-0663.99.1.207
DO - 10.1037/0022-0663.99.1.207
M3 - Article
SN - 0022-0663
VL - 99
SP - 207
EP - 220
JO - Journal of Educational Psychology
JF - Journal of Educational Psychology
IS - 1
ER -