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Mohammad, Zena Abdulameer; Hasbi, Muhamad – Arab World English Journal, 2021
Reading is one of the essential components of the English language. Countries that use English as a second language (ESL) sometimes have difficulties in reading and comprehension. According to many researches, mother tongue has proved some interferences with learning a second language. This study investigated the results of reading difficulties of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Reading Difficulties, Reading Comprehension
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Jarsve, Christopher Flaten; Tsagari, Dina – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2022
?he current study explored the effect of specific teaching accommodations for English language learners with dyslexia in a Norwegian primary school. Specifically, this single group intervention project investigated the impact of a range of multisensory techniques on spelling skills and motivation. Participants included a special education teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Elementary School Students
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Fazio, Denise; Ferrari, Livia; Testa, Silvia; Tamburrelli, Federica; Marra, Emma; Biancardi, Marta; Palladino, Paola; Marzocchi, Gian Marco – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Background: Children with dyslexia often show second-language reading and writing difficulties, but the cognitive mechanisms connected to this impairment need to be clarified. Aims: The present study examined the neuropsychological mechanisms underlying learning English as a foreign language in 4th- to the 8th-grade Italian students showing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dyslexia, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Jungert, Tomas; Andersson, Ulf – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2013
The aim was to examine achievement and self-efficacy in mathematics and native and foreign language literacy in children with specific mathematic LD (MD-only), children with comorbid mathematic and reading difficulties (MD-RD), and compare them with children without LD (controls), as well as to explore gender differences. Participants were 143…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Self Efficacy, Literacy, Native Language
McIntyre, Ellen; Hulan, Nancy; Layne, Vicky – Guilford Publications, 2010
This practical, teacher-friendly book provides indispensable guidance for implementing research-based reading instruction that is responsive to students' diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Structured around the "big five" core topics of an effective reading program--phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension--the…
Descriptors: Discussion, Reading Programs, Phonemic Awareness, Second Language Learning
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Schiff, Rachel; Calif, Sharon – Language Learning, 2007
In this study, 57 fifth-grade native Hebrew speakers performed orthographic-phonological awareness, morphological awareness, and oral word reading tasks in both Hebrew (first language [L1]) and English (second language [L2]). The results of the language-specific task scores in the two languages reflect, with certain qualifications, participants'…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Semitic Languages, Phonology, Morphology (Languages)