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Davis, Andréa K.; Bowman, Natalie; Kaushanskaya, Margarita – Journal of Research in Reading, 2018
Background: The goal of this study was to examine the effect of cognates on Spanish-English bilingual children's English reading fluency. Because cognates lead to higher levels of non-target language activation, we hypothesised that the presence of cognates would result in reduced reading fluency for bilingual children. Methods: Monolingual…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Spanish, English, Reading Fluency
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Katzir, Tami; Shaul, Shelly; Breznitz, Zvia; Wolf, Maryanne – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2004
Cross-linguistic studies provide a unique tool for the identification of universal processes in oral and written language, both in development and in breakdown ("Annual Review of psychology," 52, 369?396). Examining the differential strengths and weaknesses of children with dyslexia in contrasting orthographies can help illumine both the more…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Reading Fluency, Semitic Languages, English