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Elinor Saiegh-Haddad; Rachel Schiff – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
This study investigates the role of diglossic and orthographic features in reading comprehension in Arabic. Specifically, it probes the independent contribution of language, metalinguistic, and decoding skills in the spoken language and in Standard Arabic to reading comprehension in the "abjad" writing system of Arabic. A sample of 112…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabic, Reading Comprehension, Orthographic Symbols
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Zhengye Xu; Li-Chih Wang; Kevin Kien Hoa Chung; Xinyong Zhang; Ning Li; Duo Liu – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
The present study examined whether and how early cognitive flexibility, metalinguistic awareness, including phonological awareness (PA) and morphological awareness (MA), Chinese word reading (CWR), and listening comprehension (LC) influenced Chinese children's later reading comprehension. In total, 153 Chinese children were recruited. Path…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Reading Comprehension, Foreign Countries, Beginning Reading
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Rachel Schiff; Shani Levy-Shimon; Lior Oanunu Shashoua; Ayelet Sasson – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2025
The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of a multi-component homograph processing intervention complemented by Executive Function (EF) skills on the performance of struggling readers. The researchers focused on measuring improvements in literacy, metalinguistic abilities, cognitive/EF skills acquired during the intervention, and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Reading Instruction, Reading Difficulties
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Qiuzhi Xie; Yuyang Cai; Susanna Siu-sze Yeung – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
This study aims to advance our understanding of the role of word knowledge in second language (L2) reading comprehension by exploring whether morphological awareness and vocabulary assessed one year ago contribute to decoding and listening comprehension which in turn contribute to reading comprehension in Chinese children learning English as an…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Skills, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning