Bilingual oral reading fluency and reading comprehension: The case of Arabic/Hebrew (L1)-English (L2) readers

Reading and Writing

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 717-736

  Saiegh Haddad, Elinor ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cross linguistic reading; Diglossia; Oral reading fluency; Reading comprehension; Unvoweled script

Indexed keywords

EID: 3943089783     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1027310220036     Document Type: Article

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