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Al-Janaideh, Redab; Tibi, Sana; Gottardo, Alexandra; Paradis, Johanne; Chen, Xi – Reading Research Quarterly, 2023
Limited research has been conducted on the literacy skills of Arabic-speaking refugee children. This study investigated the concurrent and longitudinal roles of morphological awareness in Arabic word reading and reading comprehension. A total of 75 Syrian refugee children aged 6-13 years resettled in Canada were administered measures of nonverbal…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Reading Skills, Arabic, Refugees
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Saint-Aubin, Jean; Klein, Raymond M. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2008
When skilled readers search for a target letter while reading for comprehension, they miss the target letter more often when it is embedded in high-frequency function words than in less frequent content words. The magnitude of this "missing-letter-effect" (MLE) was investigated among 180 first- to fifth-grade students as a function of…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Form Classes (Languages), Elementary School Students, Achievement Tests