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Barth, Amy E.; Barnes, Marcia; Francis, David; Vaughn, Sharon; York, Mary – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
Separate mixed model analyses of variance were conducted to examine the effect of textual distance on the accuracy and speed of text consistency judgments among adequate and struggling comprehenders across grades 6-12 (n = 1,203). Multiple regressions examined whether accuracy in text consistency judgments uniquely accounted for variance in…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Accuracy, Statistical Analysis
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Russak, Susie; Fragman, Alon – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
It has been suggested that linguistic proximity affects the ease of acquisition between typologically similar languages, due to the fact that the languages have shared phonological and orthographic properties (Koda, 2008). Thus, a native Hebrew speaker learning Arabic as a foreign language (AFL) would be expected to easily develop linguistic…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Spelling, Adolescents