The past few decades have witnessed a growing interest in how second language (L2)
learners come to read in languages employing non-alphabetic writing systems such as …

English L2 Reading: Getting to the Bottom uses research-based insights to examine bottom-
up skills in reading English as a second language. This fourth edition clearly presents core …

This study investigated word identification inArabic and basic cognitive processes inreading-
disabled (RD) and normal readers of thesame chronological age, and in younger …

This study investigated the effect of vowels and context on readingaccuracy of skilled adult
native Arabic speakers in Arabic and inHebrew, their second language. Their reading …

This article offers a model of Arabic word reading according to which three conspicuous
features of the Arabic language and orthography shape the development of word reading in …

This study addressed the development of and the relationship between foundational
metalinguistic skills and word reading skills in Arabic. It compared Arabic-speaking …

The purpose of the present review is to examine the studies that tested the role of short
vowels in reading Arabic. Most of the studies are reviewed in this paper and two …

Writing is an eclectic phenomenon whose many facets are studied by the young
interdisciplinary field of grapholinguistics. Linguistically, writing is a system of graphic marks …

This study was an investigation of several Arabic reading measures among dyslexics and
normal Arabic readers across different ages (grades 3, 6, 9, and 12): the role of morphology …

All native speakers of Arabic read in a language variety that is remarkably distant from the
one they use in everyday speech. The study tested the impact of this distance on reading …