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Direct linkAsadi, Ibrahim A. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2018
The simple view of reading (SVR) model posits that reading comprehension is a product of decoding and listening comprehension and that reading comprehension difficulties can be categorized according to the weakness and strength of these 2 components. In the present study, I tested the applicability of the SVR to reading comprehension subgroups in…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Semitic Languages, Models, Elementary School Students
Primor, Liron; Pierce, Margaret E.; Katzir, Tami – Annals of Dyslexia, 2011
The aim of this study was to investigate which cognitive and reading-related linguistic skills contribute to reading comprehension of narrative and expository texts. The study examined an Israeli national database of Hebrew-speaking readers in fourth grade, from which a subsample of 190 readers with a reading disability (RD) and 190 readers with…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Reading Comprehension, Story Reading, Expository Writing
Hauptman, Sara; Mansur, Fuaz; Tal, Rachel – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008
Developing academic literacy skills in Classical Arabic (L1), Hebrew (L2) and English (FL) among 10th-grade Bedouin students in Southern Israel is of central importance, in light of the country's policies regarding trilingual education for this sector. This paper presents the findings of research which examined the impact of a teaching model where…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Reading Comprehension, Writing (Composition), Teaching Models
Download full textBeentjes, Hans W. J. – 1987
This comparison of students' learning from reading books and from watching television uses Gavriel Salomon's model of learning effects, which is based on the amount of mental effort invested (AIME) in a medium as determining how deeply the information from that medium is processed. Mental effort, in turn, is predicted to depend on two perceptions…
Descriptors: Books, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Developed Nations
Peer reviewedAbu-Rabia, Salim – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1995
Studies the relationship of attitudes and cultural background to reading comprehension in a second language (L2) of students in three different social contexts: Israeli-Arab students learning Hebrew as their L2, Israeli-Jewish students learning English as their L2, and Canadian-Arab students learning English as their L2. Results showed that the…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cultural Context, English, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedAbu-Rabia, Salim – International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1996
Investigates the relationship of attitudes and cultural background to reading comprehension in the second language (L2) of Israeli Arab students learning Hebrew and Israeli Jewish and Canadian Arab students learning English. Results showed that the motivation of students to learning their L2 was instrumental rather than integrative, regardless of…
Descriptors: Arabs, Context Effect, Cultural Influences, English (Second Language)
