Descriptor
Source
| Reading in a Foreign Language | 1 |
Author
| Meara, Paul | 1 |
| Randall, Mick | 1 |
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 1 |
| Reports - Research | 1 |
Education Level
Audience
Location
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Peer reviewedRandall, Mick; Meara, Paul – Reading in a Foreign Language, 1988
Shows that native-speaking Arabic readers produce search functions that are radically different from the search functions of readers whose script uses the Roman alphabet (RAs). The processes used by Arabic readers are more akin to the processes used by RAs when searching arrays of shapes. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Alphabets, Arabic, English (Second Language), Language Processing
