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Direct linkPrior, Anat; Zeltsman-Kulick, Rita; Katzir, Tami – Journal of Research in Reading, 2020
The current study examined the proficiency of Israeli adolescents in reading single words in English, which is taught as a foreign language, and what language skills predict individual variability. Parallel measures of word reading, phonology, decoding, morpho-syntax and vocabulary in Hebrew and English were administered to 217 adolescents in 8th…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Reading Processes, Elementary School Students, Language Proficiency
Peer reviewedShatil, Evelyn; Share, David L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2003
Evaluated hypothesis that cognitive antecedents of word recognition are domain-specific and unrelated to higher-order domain-general cognitive abilities in a longitudinal study of Hebrew-speaking children. Found that kindergarten domain-specific measures accounted for 33 percent of variance in Grade 1 word recognition, even after controlling for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Emergent Literacy, Foreign Countries
Kahn-Horwitz, Janina; Shimron, Joseph; Sparks, Richard L. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2005
This study examined whether factors affecting first language reading acquisition also affect English Foreign Language (EFL) reading acquisition. Hebrew (L1) and EFL reading related measures were administrated to 145 fourth graders from the north of Israel who were beginning their first year of English instruction. Results from a Linear Structural…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning
