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The Role of Academic Buoyancy and Emotions in Students’ Learning-Related Expectations and Behaviours in Primary School
By Riikka Hirvonen, David W. Putwain, Sami Määttä, Timo Ahonen & Noona Kiuru
Published British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020, 90, 948-963. DOI:10.1111/bjep.12336
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The Effect of Using a Mobile Literacy Game to Improve Literacy Levels of Grade One Students in Zambian Schools
By Jacqueline Jere-Folotiya, Tamara Chansa-Kabali, Jonathan C. Munachaka, Francis Sampa, Christopher Yalukanda, Jari Westerholm, Ulla Richardson, Robert Serpell & Heikki Lyytinen
Published Educational Technology Research and Development, 2014, 62, 417-436. DOI: 10.1007/s11423-014-9342-9
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Challenges Associated with Reading Acquisition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Promotion of Literacy in Multilingual Contexts
By Heikki Lyytinen, Emma Ojanen, Jacqueline Jere-Folotiya, Stella Damaris Ngorosho, Francis Sampa, Pamela February, Flora Malasi, Jonathan Munachaka, Christopher Yalukanda, Kenneth Pugh & Robert Serpel
Published In Spaull, Nic; Comings, John (Eds.) Improving Early Literacy Outcomes: Curriculum, Teaching, and Assessment, IBE on Curriculum, Learning, and Assessment, 4. Leiden: Brill Sense, 2019, 119-132. DOI: 10.1163/9789004402379_007
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Letter Knowledge Predicts Grade 4 Reading Fluency and Reading Comprehension
By Ulla Leppänen, Kaisa Aunola, Pekka Niemi & Jari-Erik Nurmi
Published Learning and Instruction, 2008, 18, 548-564. DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2007.11.004
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A Comparison Between Verbal Working Memory and Vocabulary in Bilingual and Monolingual South African School Beginners: Implications for Bilingual Language Assessment
By Kate Cockcroft
Published International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2016, 19(1), 74-88. DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2014.964172
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Child-centred versus Teacher-directed Teaching Practices: Associations with the Development of Academic Skills in the First Grade at School
By Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen, Noona Kiuru, Eija Pakarinen, Anna-Maija Poikkeus, Helena Rasku-Puttonen, Martti Siekkinen & Jari-Erik Nurmi
Published Early Childhood Research Quarterly 36, 145-156.
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Designing for Scale: Reflections on Rolling Out Reading Improvement in Kenya and Liberia
By Amber Gove, Medina Korda Poole, & Benjamin Piper
Published In A. Gove, A. Mora, & P. McCardle (Eds.), Progress toward a literate world: Early reading interventions in low-income countries, New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 155, 77–95.
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Differentiation of Effect Across Systemic Literacy Programs in Rwanda, the Philippines, and Senegal
By Rachel Christina & Elena Vinogradova
Published In A. Gove, A. Mora, & P. McCardle (Eds.), Progress toward a literate world: Early reading interventions in low-income countries, New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 155, 51–65.
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GraphoLearn India: The Effectiveness of a Computer-Assisted Reading Intervention in Supporting Struggling Readers of English
By Priyanka Patel, Minna Torppa, Mikko Aro, Ulla Richardson, & Heikki Lyytinen
Published Front. Psychol. 9:1045. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01045
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