%0 Journal Article %T How can low-skilled 5-year-old children benefit from multisensory training on the acquisition of the alphabetic principle? %+ Laboratoire Paragraphe (PARAGRAPHE) %+ Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EMC) %+ Dynamique des capacités humaines et des conduites de santé (EPSYLON) %A Labat, Hélène %A Ecalle, Jean %A Baldy, René %A Magnan, Annie %< avec comité de lecture %@ 1041-6080 %J Learning and Individual Differences %I Elsevier %V 29 %P 106-113 %8 2014-12-31 %D 2014 %R 10.1016/j.lindif.2013.09.016 %K Multisensory %K Highlighting %K Training %K Alphabetic principle %K Low-skilled children %Z Humanities and Social Sciences/Psychology %Z Humanities and Social Sciences/EducationJournal articles %X This study aimed at evaluating the effect on letter knowledge andwriting of a multisensory exploration of letters as a function of the child's skill level (low vs high-skilled). Five-year-old children were tested on letter–sound knowledge and on letter writing before and after training. Four matched groups were formed: A Control group (C, no contact with letters), a Visual group (V, the child watched the letter), a Visuo Haptic group (VH, the child touched the letter with the forefinger) and a Visuo Graphomotor group (VG, highlighting). Results indicated a significant gain percentage in trained letter sounds in the V, VH and VG groups compared to the C group. With regard to letter writing, the pattern of results suggests that highlighting the letter shape could constitute a good classroom teaching method, particularly in the case of low-skilled children. These results are discussed in the light of the different modes of letter exploration. %G English %L hal-02979667 %U https://cyu.hal.science/hal-02979667 %~ SHS %~ UNIV-PARIS8 %~ TICE %~ UNIV-LYON2 %~ UNIV-MONTP3 %~ UNIV-CERGY %~ LP %~ UNIV-PARIS-LUMIERES %~ UDL %~ CY-EDUCATION %~ EPSYLON %~ EMC