General academic words are those which typically learned through exposure to school texts and occur across disciplines. We examined vocabulary assessment data from a group of English-speaking middle students (N = 1,747). tested how word frequency, complexity, proximity, polysemy, diversity related students’ knowledge target ability levels. Our results affirm the strong relation between reading ...

A number of factors contribute to proficient word recognition, including phonological awareness and the ability to make orthographic analogies. The present study considered the relative contribution analogy abilities make toward early reading ability. Two analogy tasks and measures of phonological awareness, orthographic knowledge, visual memory, general language ability, and non-verbal intelli...

Bilingualism is commonly assumed to improve creativity but the mechanisms underlying creative acts, and the way these mechanisms are affected by bilingualism, are not very well understood. We hypothesize that learning to master multiple languages drives individuals toward a relatively focused cognitive-control state that exerts strong top-down impact on information processing and creates strong...

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Dyslexia, a reading disability, is one of the types of learning disorder that affects many children. Most of the children will eventually become competent, indeed skilled, readers of their language. Dyslexic children are proficient in their language because of their learning difficulties. While learning English as second language they face many problems. On the basis of their disability, this p...

The purpose of this study was to identify and examine effective reading strategies used by adult deaf readers compared with student deaf readers. There were a total of 11 participants: 5 deaf adults ranging from 27 to 36 years and 6 deaf students ranging from 16 to 20 years. Assessment methods included interview and think-aloud procedures in which individuals were interrupted 3 times during the...

Orthographic differences across languages impose differential weighting on distinct component processes, and consequently on different pathways during word-reading tasks. Readers of transparent orthographies such as Italian and Hindi are thought to rely on spelling-to-sound assembly and show increased activation in phonologically tuned areas along the dorsal pathway, whereas reading an opaque o...

A primary tenet underlying American Sign Language/English bilingual education for deaf students is that early access to a visual language, developed in conjunction with language planning principles, provides a foundation for literacy in English. The goal of this study is to obtain an emic perspective on bilingual deaf readers transitioning from learning to read to reading to learn. Analysis of ...

The paper explores the use of metadiscourse markers by L1 speakers English and proficient L2 in opinion articles. data for analysis consists 90 articles from most popular newspapers USA, UK Ukraine, each variety represented with 30 classification is primarily based on Hyland’s taxonomy a more detailed approach to identifying metadiscoursive occurrences. In addition investigating common patterns...