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Feder, Liat; Abu-Rabia, Salim – Journal of Educational Research, 2020
This research examined differences between dyslexic, poor and normal readers who learn in the same educational framework, across various linguistic and meta-linguistic skills in Hebrew as the first language (L1) and English as a foreign language (FL), following an intervention program focusing on English linguistic skills. The participants…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Reading Difficulties, Reading Skills, Semitic Languages
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Segal, Osnat; Kishon-Rabin, Liat – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2019
Arabic stress is predictable, varies across words, and does not have a contrastive role, whereas, Hebrew stress although nonpredictable, carries contrastive value. Stress processing was assessed in speakers of the two languages at three processing levels: discrimination, short-term memory, and metalinguistic awareness. In Experiment 1, Arabic…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Native Language, Metalinguistics, Phonology