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Shum, Kathy Kar-man; Au, Terry Kit-fong – Language Learning and Development, 2017
Rapid automatized naming (RAN) robustly predicts early reading abilities across languages, but its underlying mechanism remains unclear. This study found that RAN associated significantly with processing speed but not with phonological awareness or orthographic knowledge in 89 Hong Kong Chinese second-graders. RAN overlaps more with processing…
Descriptors: Naming, Foreign Countries, Reading Ability, Phonological Awareness
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Palladino, Paola; Bellagamba, Isabella; Ferrari, Marcella; Cornoldi, Cesare – Dyslexia, 2013
It has been argued that children with dyslexia (DC) are poor at learning a foreign language (L2) and, in particular, reading foreign words. This assumption is so general that an Italian law (law 170, October, 2010) has established that DC may be completely exempted from foreign language learning and, in any case, should not be engaged in tuition…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dyslexia, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction