Early identification of students at risk of dyslexia has been an educational challenge in the past years. This research had two main goals. First, we aimed to develop a screening protocol for early identification of Brazilian children at risk for dyslexia; second, we aimed to identify the predictive variables of this protocol using Principal Component Analysis. The major step involved in develo...

objectives: speech and language development is one of the main aspects of evolution in humans and is one of the most complex brain functions such that it is referred to as one of the highest cortical functions such as thinking, reading and writing. speech and language disorders are considered as a major public health problem because they cause many secondary complications in the childhood and a...

INTRODUCTION AND METHOD This paper presents a corpus of sentence level eye movement parameters for unbalanced bilingual first language (L1) and second-language (L2) reading and monolingual reading of a complete novel (56 000 words). We present important sentence-level basic eye movement parameters of both bilingual and monolingual natural reading extracted from this large data corpus. RESULTS...

sociology of the artists is one of the subfields in the sociology of art which studies artists from at least two points of view. first, it studies individual, social and cultural characteristics of artists and the relationships of these factors to their tendencies towards becoming artist. second, it addresses the styles and contents prevailing in the artists’ work in a certain period of time an...

as many scholars believe, teaching persian language, that as the second language in the muslim world, is a window for knowing and understanding the culture and civilization of iran, requires specialized curriculum development. this research is aimed to present the reading comprehension skill for upper-intermediate learners in the field of islamic sciences on the basis of task-based approach and...