Many school-age children who come to the United States from other countries find the shift in home, community, and institutional constructs to be a challenge (Cairney, 2002; Derderian-Aghajanian & Wang, 2012). Despite this, these children and their families bring significant str…
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The intent of this study was to gain a better understanding of the factors influencing comprehension performance of students reading English as a second language. The major factors considered were cultural schmemata and reading ability in L2. More specifically, the study attempt…
This is an examination of an early twentieth century adult literacy movement in Kentucky and its founder, Cora Wilson Stewart. The study is attentive to the rhetoric of literacy in the context of both the reform environment in which it took hold and Stewart's biography. The stud…
Despite the fact that school textbooks have a great impact on the quality of educational outcomes in the YAR, little attention had been directed to the careful study and evaluation of their appropriateness. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a checklist for as…
The controversy surrounding the issue of first language instruction and second language achievement centers around the fear that learning the first language will interfere with student's achievement in English. This controversy is magnified in situations where the native languag…
The study examined the relationship between yeshiva students' information processing styles (sequential, simultaneous, balanced) and the method by which beginning reading instruction was taught in English and Hebrew and reading proficiency in both languages. (Code- and meaning-e…
The purpose of the present study was (a) to investigate the effects of theme inclusion/placement and the hierarchical structure of text on the comprehension and recall of expository prose by college readers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL), and (b) to determine the way in …
This study is designed to describe and compare oral reading miscues generated while reading expository materials in Arabic and English by college students whose native language is Arabic and whose second language is English. The major concerns of the study involve testing the ap…
Readability studies indicated problems associated with the judgmental method used in developing readability prediction equations. Some studies recommended further research to refine the judgmental method and overcome problems related to it. The purpose of this study was to inves…
In the Israeli and United States Jewish Day School, the teaching of Bible stands at the center of the child's education in religious and national values. While the teaching of Bible is viewed as the fulfillment of religious obligation in some educational settings in other school…
Recently, evidence has been converging to suggest that the source of reading difficulties of learning disabled children is not a perceptual deficit, but a language deficit. Particular attention has been focused on the importance of "metaphonological skills," i.e., the ability to…
Little information is available in the literature about whether some mistakes made by young learners of Arabic are to be expected at a particular age and grade. A descriptive study of the reading and spelling errors made by children learning Arabic was carried out within a devel…
This study investigated the word attack strategies used by English-speaking first graders learning Hebrew as a second language when they read English (L1) and Hebrew (L2). Seventeen first-grade students were observed while reading narrative and expository texts in English and He…
He who knows no foreign language, knows nothing of his own. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The present study investigates the effect of the curriculum, teaching methodology and students' native language on reading difficulties in the Omani classrooms. The purpose of this study is …
The current study provides some insights into the hypothesis of incidental vocabulary learning (i.e., learning vocabulary as a by-product of reading or listening). The study is motivated by the question of how feasible it is for EFL learners to comprehend unfamiliar multiword un…
This study investigated the effects the use of cooperative learning method in English as a second language reading comprehension performance and how it improves the students' second language, their attitudes toward cooperative learning, and their motivation toward reading. Sixty…
The role of basic language processing components, in general, and that of lower-level phonological and orthographic processing skills, in particular, is not well understood in second language reading. Most research in second and foreign language (L2) reading has followed top-dow…
The "script dependent" hypothesis suggests that script characteristics determine reading proficiency of different languages. According to this position, children are likely to experience more difficulties in acquiring basic reading skills in English due to the irregular nature o…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of parental deployment to Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War on the academic achievement of sixth-grade students from military families stationed at Fort Bragg Army Base and at Pope Air Force Base. Reading and mathematics sco…