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Bonifacci, Paola; Lombardo, Giuseppina; Pedrinazzi, Jessica; Terracina, Francesco; Palladino, Paola – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2020
This study compared language minority bilingual (LMB) second graders with two groups of monolingual peers (with comparable low SES or with high SES) in a set of literacy skills (reading fluency, spelling, reading and oral comprehension) tested in the target school language (L2 for bilinguals). The aim was to disentangle the roles of bilingualism…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Monolingualism
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Tobia, Valentina; Bonifacci, Paola – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
Comprehension is the ultimate goal of reading, but it is a very complex task consisting of multiple component skills. A number of studies have tested the simple view of reading (SVR; Gough & Tunmer, 1986) in opaque languages, but few investigations of the SVR components have been conducted on transparent languages. In the present study, we…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Orthographic Symbols, Oral Language, Oral Reading