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Skar, Gustaf B.; Lei, Pui-Wa; Graham, Steve; Aasen, Arne Johannes; Johansen, Marita Byberg; Kvistad, Anne Holten – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
Until children can produce letters quickly and accurately, it is assumed that handwriting disrupts and limits the quality of their text. This investigation is the largest study to date (2596 girls, 2354 boys) assessing the association between handwriting fluency and writing quality. We tested whether handwriting fluency made a statistically unique…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Elementary School Students
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Frid, Bailey; Friesen, Deanna C. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2020
Reading comprehension performance is predicted by decoding skill and linguistic comprehension (e.g., Hoover & Gough, 1990; Joshi & Aaron, 2012; Scarborough, 2001). However, the type of strategies that readers recruit to build a discourse should also contribute to success in first and second language reading comprehension. Sixty-six French…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, French, Immersion Programs
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Kahn-Horwitz, Janina – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
English foreign language (EFL) literacy achievement is a major challenge for EFL pupils in Israel. To better understand this challenge, this study used a quantitative approach to examine differences between experienced and preservice EFL teachers' content knowledge of the English orthography and the impact of a semester course on this knowledge. A…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Statistical Analysis