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Lovett, Maureen W.; Frijters, Jan C.; Steinbach, Karen A.; Sevcik, Rose A.; Morris, Robin D. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Adolescents with reading disability (RD) participated in a randomized controlled trial evaluating the efficacy of a multiple-component reading intervention with motivational components (PHAST). A total of 514 youth in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade formed instructional groups (4-8) that were randomly assigned to one of three conditions--one of two PHAST…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Russak, Susie; Fragman, Alon – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014
It has been suggested that linguistic proximity affects the ease of acquisition between typologically similar languages, due to the fact that the languages have shared phonological and orthographic properties (Koda, 2008). Thus, a native Hebrew speaker learning Arabic as a foreign language (AFL) would be expected to easily develop linguistic…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Spelling, Adolescents