Reading, syntactic, orthographic, and working memory skills of bilingual Arabic-English speaking Canadian children

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 661-678

  Abu Rabia, Salim ^a   Siegel, Linda S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bilingual Arabic English; Bilingual reading disabilities; Monolingual reading disabilities; Reading disabilities in different orthographies

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; PHONETICS; RANDOMIZATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0037841854     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021221206119     Document Type: Review

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