Handwriting is an essential fine motor skill in school-aged children and plays a crucial role for educational development and autonomy of everyday life. To analyze hand-writing movement an objective quantitative kinematic analysis can be performed by using digital tablets. Through this tech-nology it was possible to identify a lot of parameters useful to characterize the handwriting process. In order to study the influence of mother tongue on the dy-namic of handwriting in primary school, we examined the writing response of 42 non-native speakers and compared their characteristics with those of 131 Italian mother tongue chil-dren. All children undertook one repetitive sequence of le and an Italian sentence written in two different ways: as accurately as and as fast as possible. The results showed that the differences between native and non-native speakers were not significant in the repetitive se-quence while a clear influence of mother tongue was present only in the third grade for the sentence tasks.
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D’Antrassi, P., Costa, F., Fornasa, E., & Accardo, A. (2015). Influence of mother tongue on dynamic handwriting features in primary school. In IFMBE Proceedings (Vol. 49, pp. 552–555). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13117-7_141
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