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The relation of metalinguistic skills and vocabulary to spelling in Korean children with hearing loss
This study investigated the relationships between metalinguistic skills, including phonological, orthographic, and morphological awareness, and...
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Orthographic facilitation of English vocabulary learning in monolingual and bilingual children
Research suggests that bilinguals often have weaker vocabulary in their second language compared to that of monolinguals (e.g., Hoff, 2013). It is...
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Exploring the profiles of foreign language learners’ writing self-regulation: focusing on individual differences
The available classifications of self-regulated learners may not be applicable to second or foreign language writing due to the contextual nature of...
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Thinking with the Elephant: Lin Wang and Teenage Soldiers in a Biographical Trilogy
This essay discusses Ru-Qing Lee’s The Last Veteran Elephant: Trilogy of Private Lin Wang (Zuihou de Zhanxiàng—Dabing Lín Wang Sanbuqu [The Last...
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The relation between reading and externalizing behavior: a correlational meta-analysis
Reading proficiency is important because it has life-long consequences and influences success in other academic areas. Many students with behavior...
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Becoming Active Readers with Metafictive Children’s Novels: Analysing Responses to The Bad Beginning and The Name of this Book is Secret
Unreliable narrators, multiple perspectives, and lack of a resolution are all experiences children in the twenty-first century increasingly...
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Epistemic modality in upper elementary students’ argument writing: a feature of argumentation
Language is essential for making meaning in written communication, and argument writing is a key genre of schooling to which language contributes...
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Syntactic knowledge in a foreign language: examining cross-language transfer effects in L2 noun phrase comprehension
This study assessed the effect of adjectives and noun premodifiers on L2 noun phrase comprehension and error types among English Language Learners....
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Examining the developmental trade-off between phonology and morphology in Hebrew reading acquisition
The relative importance of phonological versus morphological processes in reading varies depending on the writing system's orthographic consistency...
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“A Way to Save a Pig’s Life”: The Impossibility of Animal Rescue in Charlotte’s Web
This article reads E. B. White’s Charlotte’s Web (1952) as a work that engages critically with the premises of popular narratives of animal...
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Spelling development of children with and without reading difficulties throughout elementary grades: evidence from the Greek orthography
The purpose of this longitudinal study was to examine the development of spelling in a large sample ( N = 503, boys: N = 219) of Greek-speaking...
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Handwriting in primary school: comparing standardized tests and evaluating impact of grapho-motor parameters
A growing number of primary school students experience difficulties with grapho-motor skills involved in handwriting, which impact both form and...
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Rotating, Re-reading, and Reacquainting: A Critical Investigation of Reversible Picturebooks
In recent years, the growing publication of interactive picturebooks and the use of electronic tablets by children have prompted us to revise and...
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Translating Humor for Children in Beijia Huang’s I Want To Be Good
This article examines the translation of humor in《我要做好孩子》( Wo Yao Zuo Hao Hai Zi , I Want To Be Good ) by Beijia Huang, first published in 1996, and...
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Dyslexia in the twenty-first century: a commentary on the IDA definition of dyslexia
In offering a commentary upon the IDA definition, we address its main components in turn. While each is technically accurate, we argue that, when...
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The gift of dyslexia: what is the harm in it?
Dyslexia, characterized by word reading and spelling deficits, has historically been viewed through a medical model of disability. However, a...
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An interdisciplinary perspective on the strengths and weaknesses of the International Dyslexia Association definition of dyslexia
This commentary article describes the results of a Delphi Method discussion between an interdisciplinary team of state dyslexia policy implementers....
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Predicting Chinese reading proficiency based on eye movement features and machine learning
This study explores the effectiveness of machine learning and eye movement features in predicting Chinese reading proficiency. Unlike previous...
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Reading and emotional-behavioural development in Finnish children: a longitudinal study of associations
Poor reading has been linked to negative outcomes on a wide range of emotional-behavioural dimensions in children. However, little is known about the...