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Studies on the written characters orientation and its influence on digit reversal by children.
- Source :
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Educational Psychology . Jun2018, Vol. 38 Issue 5, p556-571. 16p. - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Recent research has found that children reverse mainly the left-oriented characters when writing from memory (e.g. they write ɩ and ε instead of J and 3). In order to obtain an objective definition of the left-orientation of a character, the ratings of the level of left-orientation of all the asymmetrical capital letters and digits by 142 adult students was analysed in Study 1. Study 2, on 298 five-six-year-old children, examined an immediate prediction of Study 1, namely that the children reverse mainly the digits that the adult students have rated left-oriented. Other predictions, both of the posited representation of the writing during the reversal stage and the neurological process of mirror generalisation, were verified: the simplicity of the representation of the symmetrical digits 0 and 8 makes incorrect writings very rare; the mirror generalisation, which operates only in the left-right direction, makes other transformations (inversion or 180° rotation) very rare. Finally, the explanatory power of some putative individual factors of reversal (e.g. writing with the left hand) is shown to be far lower than that of the left-orientation of the characters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01443410
- Volume :
- 38
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Educational Psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 129571471
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01443410.2017.1359239