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Alshaboul, Yousef; Asassfeh, Sahail; Alshboul, Sabri; Alodwan, Talal – International Education Studies, 2014
Cross-language transfer is the extent, if any, to which phonological awareness in L1 facilitates learning to read in L2. This has been an area of investigation wherein researchers looked into the orthographic and phonological component processing skills L2 learners develop and utilize to facilitate word recognition. Given the difference between…
Descriptors: Phonemic Awareness, Semitic Languages, English (Second Language), Reading Skills
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Abu-Hamour, Bashir – Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 2014
This study examined the psychometric proprieties of the Arabic version of the Curriculum-Based Measurement Oral Reading Fluency (CBM ORF) for Jordanian students. A sample of 200 students (six to eight years old) was recruited from four public primary schools in Jordan. Results indicated that the CBM ORF had adequate reliability and validity…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Test Validity, Semitic Languages, Foreign Countries
Al-Tamimi, Yaser; Rabab'ah, Ghaleb – Online Submission, 2007
This study investigates the effect of phonological awareness instruction on the development of word-reading ability for EFL first-graders in a Jordanian state school. Based on Chard and Dickson's (1999) phonological awareness hierarchy, a phonological awareness training program was developed by the researchers, and used in training the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Phonological Awareness, Reading Skills, English (Second Language)