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Mindful Acceptance Predicts Writing Achievement in 6th-Graders
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Cordeiro, Carolina; Magalhães, Sofia; Nunes, Andreia; Olive, Thierry; Castro, São Luís; Limpo, Teresa – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2022
Writing is a complex task that requires the activation and coordination of several processes. In addition to the research on the domain-specific factors that contribute to school achievement, there is an increasing interest on general variables, such as mindfulness. Here, we aimed to test the contribution of middle-grade students' trait…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Writing Achievement, Prediction, Executive Function
Using Oral Narratives to Examine Acquisition of English Verb Morphology among Multilingual Arabic and Monolingual Hebrew Speakers: Finding Similarities with Monolingual English-Speaking SLIs
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Elena Zaretsky; Susie Russak – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Acquisition of oral English verb morphology presents difficulties for bilinguals, learners of EFL and English-speaking monolingual children with specific language impairment. This study aimed to identify challenging English verb inflections among sixth grade speakers of Arabic (N = 85) and Hebrew (N = 86) using an elicited oral narrative task, and…
Descriptors: Speech Impairments, Language Impairments, Arabic, Hebrew
Phonological Awareness Deficits in Children with Dyslexia: The Impact of Working Memory as a Function of Modality of Test Administration
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Smail, Layes; Sana, Tibi; Yamina, Bouakkaz; Rebai, Mohamed – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2022
This study examined whether the phonological awareness (PA) deficit in Arabic speaking dyslexic children could be impacted by the presence vs. absence of verbal working memory (WM) as function of the sensory modality of administration (auditory vs. visual) of the phonological tests. Three phonological awareness (PA) tasks, i.e., phoneme…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Dyslexia, Short Term Memory, Verbal Ability
A Study of Literacy Acquisition in English as a Foreign Language amongst Native Hebrew and Arabic Speaking Pupils
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Russak, Susie – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
Israel has two official languages: Hebrew and Arabic, and one semi-official language, English. Within this multilingual environment, the national English curriculum relates to all learners as one homogenous population. There are no specific directives regarding the linguistic needs of diverse language backgrounds. Studies of literacy acquisition…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Effects of an Adaptive Phonological Training Program on Reading and Phonological Processing Skills in Arabic-Speaking Children with Dyslexia
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Layes, Smail; Lalonde, Robert; Rebai, Mohamed – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2019
We examined the effects of an adaptive phonological training program on the enhancement of 3 processing abilities--namely, phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming, and phonological short-term memory--as well as word and pseudoword reading in Arabic-speaking children with dyslexia. We compared an experimental group (n = 20; mean age =…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Semitic Languages, Reading Skills, Phonology
Examining Reading Comprehension Profiles of Grade 5 Monolinguals and English Language Learners through the Lexical Quality Hypothesis Lens
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O'Connor, Megan; Geva, Esther; Koh, Poh Wee – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2019
This study set out to compare patterns of relationships among phonological skills, orthographic skills, semantic knowledge, listening comprehension, and reading comprehension in English as a first language (EL1) and English language learners (ELL) students and to test the applicability of the lexical quality hypothesis framework. Participants…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Semantics, Listening Comprehension, Reading Comprehension