Reading in two orthographies: A cross-linguistic study of Dutch average and poor readers who learn English as a second language

Reading and Writing

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 753-784

  Morfidi, Eleni ^a   Van Der Leij, Aryan ^a   De Jong, Peter F ^a   Scheltinga, Femke ^a   Bekebrede, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Orthography; Phonological skills; Poor readers; Second language

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848902327     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-006-9035-9     Document Type: Article

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