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Download full textAthanasou, James A.; Lamprianou, Iasonas – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2004
This paper examines reading achievement when the maternal/paternal language has become a de facto second language. The performance of a cohort of Greek-Australian high school students (N = 270) on a diagnostic Greek reading test was significantly below that of pupils in second to fourth grades in Greece. The mean item difficulty for…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Reading Achievement, Foreign Countries, Grade 4
