Metalinguistic awareness and reading performance: A cross language comparison

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 297-317

  Ibrahim, Raphiq ^a,b   Eviatar, Zohar ^a   Aharon Peretz, Judith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Arabic speakers; Bilingualism; Metalinguistic abilities; Monolingual Hebrew speakers; Orthography; Russian Hebrew speakers

Indexed keywords

ARAB; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHILD; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; READING; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

ARABS; AWARENESS; CHILD; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; PHONETICS; READING; RUSSIA;

EID: 34249075160     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10936-006-9046-3     Document Type: Article

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