Children and adult readers were compared for the degree to which they were able to avoid grapheme-to-phoneme translation in word naming, for how much they benefited from redundant phonemic information, and for the degree to which they were disturbed by minor changes in graphemes that were still phonemically appropriate. Hebrew was the target…

This study examined individual differences among beginning readers of English as a foreign language (EFL). The study concentrated on the effects of underlying first language (L1) knowledge as well as EFL letter and vocabulary knowledge. Phonological and morphological awareness, spelling, vocabulary knowledge, and word reading in Hebrew L1, in…

This study examined whether factors affecting first language reading acquisition also affect English Foreign Language (EFL) reading acquisition. Hebrew (L1) and EFL reading related measures were administrated to 145 fourth graders from the north of Israel who were beginning their first year of English instruction. Results from a Linear Structural…