Encoding across time and languages
Encoding across time and languages
This symposium includes five papers that examine the spelling abilities of typically developing children, some of whom are bilingual. The symposium showcases advances in our understanding of spelling processes across time and across languages. As such, the papers include several longitudinal studies and include languages as diverse as Chinese, Hebrew, and English. Outcomes of these studies have theoretical significance in revealing the predictors of spelling ability and in emphasising the value of early spelling skills for predicting later literacy abilities. Other studies have clear practical significance. For example, some of the empirical work presented in this symposium demonstrates that children’s spelling ability improves after implicit learning via a relatively brief colour-detection task – replicating the findings of an earlier study in Greek and extending this to English. The five papers come from different labs across the USA, Australia, Israel, and China. Presenters represent a mix of early career and senior researchers.