A Japanese study revealed that some aspects of handwriting development have been neglected in research in Latin alphabet communities. The study looked at handwriting movement dynamics in 1st graders. The children were asked to pay attention to the main requirements for writing each letter. According to the study, it is very important to learn the pattern of movement corresponding to a letter.

By quantifying their pen movements, he revealed the process of learning distinct temporal patterns of movement in such a way to differentiate a set of subtle features of each symbol.
~Kobe University

Handwriting is an art that begins early.

The 1st graders’ movements were influenced by the social standards of the classroom environment. Six students studying in the same classroom had individual variation in their handwriting development. Learning to write by differentiating physical movements could be linked to a phenomenon called “air writing”. The study’s findings were published in Developmental Psychobiology.

Key Takeaways:

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A Japanese study looked at the writing skills and development of first-grade students in Japan which showed different aspects of handwriting development.
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Previous research based on the Latin alphabet included that writing skills in childhood were a combination of two processes.
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During this study, an observation was done to individual variation and development among students in the same classroom where two common trends presented themselves in the study.

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