The concept of cross-language transfer is central in bilingual reading development. This is
because researchers and educators search for the conditions that allow learning that takes …

Orthographic knowledge is the understanding of how spoken language is represented in
print. However, the terms used to describe the two levels of orthographic knowledge, lexical …

Practical, effective, evidence-based reading interventions that change students' lives
Essentials of Understanding and Assessing Reading Difficulties is a practical, accessible, in …

It is widely accepted that general intelligence and phonological awareness contribute to
children's acquisition of reading and spelling skills. A further candidate in this regard is …

Poor comprehenders have intact word-reading skills but struggle specifically with
understanding what they read. We investigated whether two metalinguistic skills …

The authors tested theoretically driven predictions as to the ways in which syntactic
awareness, or awareness of word order within sentences, might contribute to reading …

The existing literature on developmental dyslexia (hereafter: dyslexia) often focuses on
isolating cognitive skills which differ across dyslexic and control participants. Among …

All dominant models of reading development ascribe a central role to learning about the
orthography in reading acquisition, particularly as children transition to fluent word reading …

We used structural equation modeling to investigate sources of individual differences in oral
reading fluency in a transparent orthography, Russian. Phonological processing …

Research has shown that language and literacy skills in a first language (L1) are related to
performance in a second language (L2) and that these relations are reciprocal. However …