Spelling improvement through letter-sound and whole-word training in two multilingual Greek- and English- speaking children

Multilingual Education

Table 1 Standardized scores in background assessments for LK and for the comparison group (scores in bold are for assessments where standardized scores were not available and represent percent correct)

^αMatrix Analogies Test, Naglieri ([1985]), ^βWISC-IV, arithmetic subtest (Wechsler, [2003]), ^cWISC-IV, digit span subtest (ibid.), ^dWIAT-II, Teacher’s edition (Wechsler [2005]), ^eblending subtest, CTOPP: Wagner et al. ([1999]), ^fBPVS II (Dunn et al., [1997]) using norms for EAL, ^gtest developed by Mouzaki et al., ([2007]), ^hblending subtest, the Athena Test (Paraskevopoulos et al., [1999]), ⁱPPVT-adapted for Greek (Simos et al., [2011]). Scores in bold are for assessments where standardized scores were not available and represent percent correct.