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Álvarez-Cañizo, Marta; Afonso, Olivia; Suárez-Coalla, Paz – Annals of Dyslexia, 2023
Different studies have demonstrated that people with dyslexia have difficulties in acquiring fluent reading and writing. These problems are also evident when they learn a second language. The aim of our study was to investigate if there is a linguistic transfer effect for writing in children with dyslexia when they face tasks in English (L2), as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Skills, Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning
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Suárez-Coalla, Paz; Ramos, Sara; Álvarez-Cañizo, Marta; Cuetos, Fernando – Annals of Dyslexia, 2014
Reading fluency is one of the basic processes of learning to read. Children begin to develop fluency when they are able to form orthographic representations of words, which provide direct, smooth, and fast reading. Dyslexic children of transparent orthographic systems are mainly characterized by poor reading fluency (Cuetos & Suárez-Coalla…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dyslexia, Reading Fluency, Orthographic Symbols