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Nirmala Vasudevan; Mithun Haridas; Prema Nedungadi; Raghu Raman; Peter T. Daniels; David L. Share – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
Most children across the world learn to read and write in non-alphabetic orthographies such as abjads (e.g., Arabic), abugidas (e.g., Ethiopic Ge'ez), and morphosyllabaries (e.g., Chinese). However, most theories of reading, reading development, and dyslexia derive from a relatively narrow empirical base of research in English--an outlier…
Descriptors: Literacy, Written Language, Dravidian Languages, Orthographic Symbols
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Shalhoub-Awwad, Yasmin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
The role of morphology in learning to read can vary widely across languages and is related to the extent to which the morphological system is a dominant feature of the specific language. The present study focuses on Arabic, a Semitic language written in an "abjad" (consonantal writing system) and characterized by rich morphological…
Descriptors: Arabic, Morphology (Languages), Role, Reading Processes
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Berninger, Virginia W.; Richards, Todd L.; Abbott, Robert D. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
In Study 1, children in grades 4-9 (N = 88, 29 females and 59 males) with persisting reading and/or writing disabilities, despite considerable prior specialized instruction in and out of school, were given an evidence-based comprehensive assessment battery at the university while parents completed questionnaires regarding past and current history…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7
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Karanth, Prathibha; Mathew, Anu; Kurien, Priya – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2004
Reading has been an extensively studied topic in the Western hemisphere for several decades, and an enormous amount of empirical data has accumulated on various aspects of reading alphabetic writing systems like English. Of late, there has been some interest in the processing of non-alphabetic scripts. However, there is hardly any empirical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Written Language, Reading Rate, Reading Processes