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Feder, Liat; Abu-Rabia, Salim – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2022
The study tested whether cognitive retroactive transfer (CRT) of language skills from English to Hebrew takes place; specifically, whether an improvement in linguistic and meta-linguistic skills in English as a foreign language (FL) would lead to an improvement in these skills in Hebrew as the first language (L1). The participants consisted of 124…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Transfer of Training, Language Skills, English (Second Language)
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Abu-Rabia, Salim; Saliba, Fadi – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2008
The masked priming paradigm was used to examine the role of the root and verb pattern morphemes in lexical access within the verb system of Arabic. Three groups participated in the study: grade 6 dyslexics, a reading-level-matched group and grade 6 normal readers. The first group consisted of: 28 grade 6 reading disabled (RD) students, 8 girls and…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Native Speakers, Reading Processes, Models